This is a transcription of a column from South Africa Magazine, July 18, 1896, titled Domestic Announcements:

BIRTHS

SONS

BUSSELL, MRS. E. H., Kimberley, June 14.

LAZARUS, MRS. W., Johannesburg, June 15.

MILLER, MRS. C. G., Uitenhage, June 11.

DAUGHTERS

JOHNSTON, MRS. J., Kimberley, June 13.

KAYSER, MRS. C. F., Port Elizabeth, June 17

MOUNTFORD, MRS. W. H., Cape Town, June 17.

RYNEVELD, MRS. A. B. VAN, Phillip’s Town, June 18.

MARRIAGES

BEVEN – PROUT – On July 15, at Bromley Parish Church, by the Rev. Sydney Beven, Assistant Priest of St. Michael and All Angels’, Brighton, brother of the bridegroom, Octavius Beven, M.B., the youngest son of the late Thomas Beven, of Hackney, to Ellen Bertha Buchanan, eldest daughter of John Prout, Esq., M.A., of Bromley.

COBBOLD – WHITE – On July 9, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, by the Rev. David Anderson, Rector, Captain Ernest Cazenove Cobbold, York and Lancaster Regiment, to Edith Mary, daughter of Colonel A. W. White, Commanding Royal Artillery at Cape Town.

WODEHOUSE, W. A. – WELSFORD, H. A., Grahamstown, May 30.

DEATHS

BLACK, MRS. J. L., Wynberg, June 15, aged 52.

CRAUSHAW, C. J., Cape Town, June 14, aged 55.

EKERMANN, F., Woodstock, June 14, aged 44.

MAUSON, J. W. G., Newlands, June 18.

MIDDLEWICK, W., Queenstown, May 24, aged 65.

MURRAY, E. G., Mowbray, June 19, aged 30.

NORTON – On June 17, massacred by the natives, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, Joseph Norton, eldest son of the late Joseph Norton, J.P., of Nortonthorpe Hall, and Mrs. Norton, of Pledwick, Yorkshire, aged 29 years; also Caroline, wife of the above Joseph Norton Norton, and second daughter of William Driffield, J.P., of Huntingdon Hall, York, aged 23 years; also their infant daughter, Dorothy Katherine, aged six months.

PAYN – On July 7, at 21, Bedford Place, Russell Square, London, Mildred Orange, second daughter of Philip F. and G. J. Payn, of Maritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 15 years.

PENDER – On July 7, at Foot’s Cray Place, Sir John Pender, G.C.M.G., aged 80.

WATSON, MISS M., Grahamstown, June 14.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

A Pretoria paper understands that horses are still dying from horse-sickness. This has never happened before, in Pretoria, the middle of May having always been regarded as the line cleavage between the healthy and unhealthy season.

A movement is on foot in Queenstown to increase the local Volunteer Corps. At a private meeting the other evening, 50 young men signed a letter to the Commanding Officer offering to join the corps provided that they are allowed to form a new company.

A driver of a span of oxen, while traveling along the Cape Town Road the other day, found himself in an awkward predicament. As the road runs for about three miles within the Free State, he was of course obliged to cross the boundary, but no sooner had he done so than his cattle were seized and carried off by the Free State authorities.

President Steyn lately sent circulars to all the different Commandants and krygs-officieren of the Free State, to meet at a certain place on a certain date.

First (says a Pretoria paper) they had it that Rhodes was too much of a coward to face the Matabele music; now that he joins fighting columns for fun and adventure it has been changed into his being too much of a coward to face the Cape Parliament music.

President Kruger (says the Chicago Tribune) was estimating the damages, actual, collateral, and possible, suffered by the people of his Republic in consequence of the Jameson raid. Mechanically he reached for his scrap-book, opened it and turned the leaves until the poem, “Jameson’s Ride,” met his eye. He read it through once again. Then he took his pencil and added a cipher to the estimate he had previously made. “I think, “ he said to himself, “considering everything, £1,500,000 will be about right.”

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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