This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine June 6, 1896. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements".

BIRTHS

SONS

BYRNES, Mrs. J. B., Kingwilliamstown, April 28

CHESHIRE, Mrs. H. E., Johannesburg, April 30

COLBORNE, Mrs. F., Johannesburg, April 28

LONGHURST, Mrs. A. C. D., Kimberley, May 5

MAUND – On May 30, at Red House Park, Ipswich, the wife of E. A. MAUND

MCKENZIE, Mrs. A., Rustenburg, May 4

NORTON, Mrs. B., East London, April 28

ROUX, Mrs. P. E., Bredasdorp, May 5

SAUNDERS, Mrs. A. C., Mossel Bay, April 28

DAUGHTERS

MICHALSKI, Mrs. A., Rouxville, O.F.S., April 7

MARRIAGES

APSDEN, Rev. W. H. – PENNY, A. I., Ficksburg, May 4

IRVING, E. H. – SOWELL, R., Grahamstown, April 30

MCLAREN, A. D. – HECK, S. L., Pretoria, April 29

MOORE, J. W. M. – FUTTER, S. J., Johannesburg, May 2

PROUDFOOT – POTTER – On June 1, at St. Columba’s, Scottish National Church, Pont Street, London, by the Rev. Donald Macleod, D.D., Charles Edmund Proudfoot, of Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony, to Mary Perram, eldest daughter of the late John Potter, of 112, Fenchurch Street, and Dunsyre, Tighnabruaich, Argyleshire

TREVITHICK, A. – STANNER, A., Johannesburg, April 30

DEATHS

CLARENCE, R., Muizenberg, May 8, aged 92

DE VILLIERS, J. A. J., Darling, May 5, aged 62

ESSELEN, Dr. L., Worcester, May 7, aged 46

FROND, Mrs., Kimberley, April 30, aged 46

GEYSER, J. J., Calitzdorp, April 28, aged 45

HILLIARD, Mrs. C. H., Grahamstown, May 3, aged 27

ISRAEL, W. G., Bloemfontein, May 1, aged 60

KOCH, Mrs. E. E. Tulbagh, May 3, aged 59

PARKES, E. F., Johannesburg, May 2, aged 48

PAWLEY, A. T., Grahamstown, May 2, aged 23

MISSING RELATIVES

Frank J. BUSSELL was last heard of two years ago in Johannesburg, intending to proceed to Bulawayo. All letters have been returned unclaimed. George WARREN and Arthur C. HILLS ask for news.

Edward WHARTON is sought by sister Julie. He was last known to be in Natal about 1894.

Sydney Herbert HOSKEN, who went to Kimberley in 1892, was last heard of in Johannesburg, 1894. Mrs. Hosken inquires.

David Thomas EVANS, formerly of Penrhiwfer, South Wales, was last heard of at Rand SouthernG.M.Co., care of Black Reef P.O., Natal Spruit, near Johannesburg. His mother, Mary Evans inquires.

John and William BRICK were last heard of in 1884 at Port Alfred, South Africa. Their cousin, Arthur Spring, inquires.

Emma CLARKE went to South Africa; supposed to have married a Mr. Hourstien in 1895. Her mother asks.

Charles William C. CATLING left London for Port Natal in 1869. His sister Selina inquires.

John DOWNHAM was last heard of in the Cape Mounted Rifles, South Africa. His sister, Jane WEAVER, inquires.

Miscellaneous articles on same page:

At Durban, one night recently, at the annual dinner of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Mr. H. Escombe paid a high compliment to the Prime Minister, whose thoughts, he said, were solely for the country and those who lived in it. When the Government was formed it received its mandate to secure the railway extension and promote harbour facilities. Within eighteen months the railway was connected with the rest of South Africa, and the railway receipts were at the rate of £500,000 per annum increase. The possibilities of the harbour were practically unlimited, and though they might not see it, the work would go on steadily till the harbour was sufficiently deepened out to float a navy. It was no part of the duty of the Ministry to offer remarks on the conduct of those who took part in recent events, but they recognized the absolute importance of no supremacy in South Africa other than that of the monarch of the British Isles.

A voluntary agreement has been signed by a number of Cape fishermen, to endure for five years, not to fish or proceed out to fish on a Sunday. Fines of £5 to follow a conviction. The money goes to various church funds.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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