This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine April 12, 1896. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements".

BIRTHS

BLACKBURROW, Mrs. H., Maritzburg, March 9, a daughter.

BLACKWELL, Mrs. F., Cape Town, March 9, a daughter.

CLARKE—On April 5, at Port Elizabeth, the wife of Arthur Clarke, of a son.

HOUSE, Mrs. W. F., Cape Town, March 12, a son.

MARSTON, Mrs. J., Wynberg, March 11, a daughter.

ROFF, Mrs. R. C., Durban, March 7, a son.

SWEKE, Mrs. J., Cape Town, March 10, a son.

TREDGOLD, Mrs. C. H., Bulawayo, March 9, a son.

WILKEN, Mrs. P., Durban, March 9, a son.

WRENSCH, Mrs. F., Colesberg, February 27, a daughter.

MARRIAGES

BLOMKAMP, B. B.—JUSTUS, E. M. C., Wynberg, March 9.

HENLEY, W. R.—PIDGEON, A. E., Woodstock, Cape Colony, March 10.

HOMAN-GRAVES—On April 8, at St. James’s, Picadilly, by the Rev. Claude S. Homan, Rector of Tyneham, brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. James Trevaskis, D.D., Vicar of St. Luke’s, Southampton, and Canon McCormick, Vicar of the parish, Leonard E. B. Homan, eldest son of the late Surgeon-General S. A. Homan, of Co. Sligo, to Sybil Eustace, elder daughter of Mrs. G. W. Graves, of Rockstone Place, Southampton.

DEATHS

AUSTIN, A. W., Cape Town, March 14, aged 55.

BARRACLOUGH, A., Woodstock, Cape Colony, March 10, aged 28.

BOTHA, J. S. H., Somerset West Strand, Cape Colony, March 8, aged 22.

COOPER, A., Maritzburg, March 8, aged 66.

DAVIS, W. C., Cape Town, March 15, aged 34.

JOHNSON, L., Umzinto, March 5, aged 55.

KLEYN, D. H., Goudini, Caledon, March 13, aged 43.

PENFOLD—On March 29, at Cape Town, Marchant Penfold, of De Beers, Kimberley, formerly Port Captain, Cape Town. Aged 61.

WILLIAMS—On April 4, suddenly, at 21, Springfield, Upper Clapton, Arthur Williams, the dearly loved husband of Jessie Williams, aged 33 years.

FENNING—On April 7, at Cape Town, John Dunkin, youngest son of James Fenning, of Lloyd’s and Elmhurst, Abbey Wood, Kent, aged 26.

Miscellaneous articles on same page:

Two thousand acres of land have lately been acquired by the Agricultural Department of the Orange River Colony, at Thaba ‘Nchu Neck, which are to be employed in the work of forestry. Forty thousand trees are now ready for planting, and it is expected that over 250,000, mostly pines, will be planted before the end of the year. Two acres of land have lately been sown with wattle seed, and a nursery of 12 acres is now being prepared. An ample supply of water is available, and the convicts from the convict station, which is situated near, and has lately been established, are engaged in the work. The 16,000 trees that were planted on November 9 last in commemoration of His Majesty King Edward’s birthday in the different Boer refugee camps in Orange River Colony are doing exceedingly well.

At a meeting of the Mechanical Engineers’ Association in Johannesburg in March, Mr. W. Epton, A.M.I.M.E., read an interesting paper on “The Raising of Water from Deep Level Mines,” in which he referred chiefly to the loss in getting the power from boilers on the surface to the pump underground. They had to raise a given weight to a certain height in a certain time, and to decide which was the most economical way of doing it. Whichever way they got the water out of the mine, very nearly half the cost was in getting the power down to the pump. He pointed out that power was lost by the use of electricity, compressed air, Cornish pumps, hydraulic pumps, but he thought that if they took the engine and boiler down the mine it would be one of the cheapest methods, though there were certain practical difficulties in the way. He referred to the test made at the Rose Deep, and the results then obtained with one of the most modern air compressors, and explained the arrangement of hydraulic pumps, extensively used in the Scottish mines, by which means an efficiency of 68 per cent was claimed. Dealing with the underground engine, he said that by placing the engine and boiler underground, providing that the pump plungers were coupled direct on to the engine, either on to the crank shaft, by means of connecting rods, or to an extended piston rod, the total loss in efficiency should not exceed 13 per cent, which gave the total of 228 I.H.P. in the cylinder of the engine. Thus, assuming a consumption of 13 lbs. of steam per I.H.P. per hour, they had 83,330,000 foot pounds per 112 lbs. of coal. With the Cornish pump they would not get duty for this depth of more than 50,000,000 with the same coil.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

Email: harprulz@bellsouth.net