This is a transcription of a column from South Africa Magazine, July 11, 1896, titled Domestic Announcements:

BIRTHS

SONS

HEALEY, MRS. H. T., Kimberley, June 6.

HUTCHINSON, MRS. W. S., Cape Town, June 8.

MACKINTOSH, MRS. E. W., Cradock, June 5.

MINNAAR, MRS. J. C., Paarl, June 10.

SOGA, MRS. J. F., Grahamstown, June 5.

DAUGHTERS

BORRILL, MRS. T., Kimberley, June 5.

BURGER, MRS. D., Graaff-Reinet, June 7.

ERNST, MRS. O., Eureka City, June 8.

KEMSLEY, MRS. W. O., Port Elizabeth, June 6.

MARRIAGES

GLENNY, C. I’A. – KITTO, M., June 15, Cape Town.

LAIT, E. A. – DENYER, M., Johannesburg, June 8.

MCALLISTER, J. K. – BICKLEY, B. H., Pilgrim’s Rest, June 4.

SANDBACH, A. – HAMILTON, C., Port Elizabeth, June 9.

SOMMERS, A. P. – DE GRAAF, M., Graaff-Reinet, June 10.

DEATHS

BEET, W. – Kingwilliamstown, June 8, aged 35.

BUTLER – On July 6, at the Chestnuts, Broxbourne, Herts, Harold Edward Butler, aged 25.

EATON – On July 2, at her residence, Kloof Street, Cape Town, Mary Theophila Eaton, only sister of the late Charles Robert Eaton, aged 77.

LANGTON – On July 5, Courtenay, sixth son of John Langton, of 14, Tressillian Crescent, St. John’s, London, killed in action at Inyati, Rhodesia, aged 30.

MIEKLE, K. M. – In Matabeleland, June 4, aged 20.

ROHDE – On June 1, at Barberton, from malarial fever, contracted at Delagoa Bay, Major Hawkins Rohde, youngest son of John Rohde, Madras Civil Service, retired.

RHODES, C – Grahamstown, June 6, aged 83 years.

SAMPSON, T. W. – Johannesburg, June 8, aged 36.

TROLLIP, MRS. B. – Grahamstown, June 7, aged 90.

WELDON – At Pietermaritzburg, Stawell, son of the late Rev. George Warburton Weldon.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

A Gentleman in Pretoria (the Transvaal Advertiser says), acting as agent for the non-resident, has now paid on a few farms during the last two years the sum of £137 10s. as war tax—that is for the Malaboch-Magoeba war, and now for the Jameson inroad, for which latter double taxes are also exacted.

It is gratifying to learn that the relief works started in the South-Western districts of the Cape Colony in aid of the poor whites are fulfilling that object. Sir James Sivewright, in replying to a question on the subject, said that at first the whites had not taken to the work, but that during the last two months there had been a gratifying increase in the number of white labourers.

Between £8000 and £10,000 cash changed hands during the recent boom in donkeys in Beaufort and immediate districts, mostly bought for the Chartered Company. The poorest and most used-up animals were bought, and horrible accounts of the sufferings of these long-suffering animals have reached the Beaufort Courier. Some people seem to imagine (says that paper) that a donkey can live with neither food nor water. Short sighted policy, to use no stronger words, as the purchaser of the donkeys must have found, which reached Kimberley one day. In this lot two poor creatures were dead in the bottom of the truck, almost trampled to pulp, and the rest in the last stage of exhaustion.

Mr. Gardner Williams had a most hearty send off from Kimberley, where he was entertained by the members of the Kimberley Club, and also given a handsome photographic address.

In Johannesburg the other day, a collision occurred on the line between Boksburg and Elandsfontein. The 9.4 train from Boksburg, at Half Weg, overtook the goods and before the driver of passenger train could pull up it dashed into the goods train. The engine was smashed and some of the coaches derailed, while all the rear trucks of the goods train were smashed. The driver and the stoker of the passenger were killed, and it is stated that the stoker of the goods train suffered a like fate. The line was torn up and the service seriously interfered with.

The Transvaal Mining Department has issued the quarterly statement, showing the returns of the public diggings in the South African Republic. In the first quarter of the present year, 619,342 half-claim licences (prospectors’) were issued, of the value of £161,512, being an increase, compared with the first quarter of last year, of 366,276 and £95,823 respectively. The claim licences (diggers) number 10,277 ½, of the value of £1898, an increase of 1382 and £3830 respectively. With other totals, the amount due to the Government is £459,283, but the gross total, including amount due to owners, &c., is £536,877, being an increase of £133,131 and £173,571 respectively.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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