This is a transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, March 29, 1902, titled Domestic Announcements:

(Announcements inserted under this heading are charged for according to length.)

BIRTHS

DA FONSECA, Mrs. S. T., Rondebosch, Feb. 22, a son.

DENNIS, Mrs. C., Retreat, Cape Colony, February 26, a daughter.

FINNISS, Mrs. C. R. H., Lady Grey, Cape Colony, February 21, a son.

GOBLE, Mrs. F. L., Durban, February 21, a son.

GRAVES, Mrs. E. R., Howick, Natal, February 22, a daughter.

LANG, Mrs. H., Wynberg, February 20, a son.

MULLER, Mrs. J. P., Cape Town, February 26, a daughter.

NOBLE, Mrs. J. N., Durban, Feb. 23, a daughter.

ROBERTSON—On February 28, at Durban, the wife of Vincent Robertson (of Rolfontein, Transvaal), of a son.

ROSCROW, Mrs. E. J., Cape Town, February 23, a daughter.

STOKES, Mrs. W. H., Kenilworth, Cape Colony, February 25, a daughter.

UPTON, Mrs. E. F., Cape Town, February 25, a son.

WIKE, Mrs. J. E., Observatory Road, Cape Colony, February 23, a son.

WRIGHT, Mrs. E. G., Woodstock, Cape Colony, February 24, a daughter.

MARRIAGES

BARRETT, G. A.—OKES, C., Rondebosch, Feb. 22

GIRD, W. R. P.—VAN REENEN, E. M., Malmesbury, Cape Colony, February 26.

SINCLAIR-MORGAN—On March 19, at St. Andrew’s Holborn Viaduct, by the Rev. Dacre Craven, M. A., Duncan Sydney Sinclair, youngest son of the late John Robert Sinclair, of Caithness, Brixton, to Lily Lawrence Morgan, elder daughter of the late Robert Augustus Morgan and Mrs. Morgan, of Hove, Sussex.

DEATHS

BAILEY—On March 23, at Yewhurst, East Grinstead, Caroline Mary, wife of Abe Bailey, of Johannesburg and Yewhurst, and elder daughter of the late John Paddon, of Sydenham, aged 27.

BENSON—On March 17, at Shepherd’s Bush, Henry Benson, late of Cliffdown and Kylemore, Eastbourne, aged 45.

BLACKBURROW, W. E., Maritzburg, Feb. 19, aged 82.

BUDGEN, J., Sea Point, February 23, aged 65.

CROFT, F., Daniel’s Kuil, February 18, aged 22.

DE KOCK, M. W., Wynberg, February 22, aged 78.

GEORGE, T., Muizenberg, March 2, aged 42.

GREEN, E. H., Paarl, February 28, aged 46.

JOHNSTON, J. J., East London, February 20, aged 47.

MCLEOD, C., Newcastle, Natal, Feb. 24, aged 39.

NOLTE, M. N., Somerset West, Cape Colony, February 27, aged 60.

PEARSON—On March 23, at Alicedale, the infant son of Maurice Grey Pearson, M.B., B. Sc., F. R. C. S.

PEMBERTON—On March 19, 1902, at Lindley, of enteric fever, Arthur Gore, aged 26 ½ years, of 24, Poet’s Road, Highbury, N., second son of the late Augustus Clarke Pemberton, of Kilburn, whilst on active service in the 106^th Company (Paget’s Horse) Imperial Yeomanry.

RHODES—On March 7, killed in action at Klipdrift, Charles Alfred Rhodes, Sergt. British South Africa Police, elder son of James Alfred Rhodes, of 48, Great Marlborough Street, and 2c, Montagu Mansions, Portman Square, W., aged 34.

SCHAFER, G., Cape Town, March 1, aged 48.

THORNE, M. M., Observatory Road, Cape Colony, February 24, aged 62.

WHITE—On March 20, at Brighton, Alfred White, of No. 25, Abchurch Lane, E.C., beloved son of Lewis Abraham White, of 127, Portsdown Road, Maida Vale, W., aged 33 years, deeply mourned by all who knew him.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

It is reported that about 12,000,000 pounds weight of forage which had been grown in the district of Albany, Bathurst, and Alexandra this season, and which was commandeered by the military at a good price, results in about £60,000 coming into the district.

While on a voyage to Cape Town on board the steamship Galeka, the wife of Benjamin Raffle, on January 3, when in latitude 1 deg. 18 min. N., longitude 12 deg. 52 min. W., gave birth to a daughter, who was promptly named Mary Emily Gudron Galeka Equatoria.

A Mail for St. Helena will be forwarded by the steamer Matin, which is appointed to leave Millwall Docks today (Saturday, March 29), and is due at St. Helena about April 17. All correspondence and parcels for the island posted in time to be dispatched by the Matin, will be forwarded by her unless specially marked for transmission otherwise.

A distressing fatality occurred recently in the train from Port Elizabeth, near Mortimer. A passenger named W. J. van der Merwe, of Hanover Road, succumbed to an attack of hemorrhage. Dr. Greathead, who was on the train, rendered every assistance, but his efforts were unavailing. The body was removed from the train, and buried at Cradock.

A big cyclone has occurred at Beira. The damage in the town alone is estimated at £23,000, and nearly every house sustained some damage. The roof of the club was blown away. The telegraph office was deluged with water, and the Fontesvilla flats submerged. Ten miles of line, from 31 to 42 mile pegs, were practically washed away. Great damage was done to the shipping in the harbour. The railway shed on the pier was demolished and pier-master’s house and furniture wrecked. All the railway yard shops and buildings were more or less damaged.

A company formed for the purpose of constructing a railway from Durbanville to Durban Road, Cape Colony, has been registered through the efforts of Mr. John King, of Durbanville.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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