This is a transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, July 4, 1896, titled Domestic Announcements:

BIRTHS

SONS

DESMOND, MRS. W. A., Uitenhage, May 28.

LEIGHTON, MRS. J., Kingwilliamstown, June 1

MARCUS, MRS. J., Johannesburg, May 28.

MCTAVISH, MRS. R. A., Port Elizabeth, June 1.

WRIGHT, MRS. W. F., East London, May 31.

DAUGHTERS

CLARKE, MRS. J., East London, May 30.

DALTON, MRS. W. J. S., Johannesburg, May 29.

JAMES, MRS. F. H., Port Elizabeth, May 30.

RANKIN, MRS. D. R., Johannesburg, May 30.

WALTON – On May 27, at the Mission House, Durban, the wife of W. Spencer Walton.

MARRIAGES

HERBERT, J. W. – FIELDING, A. L., Kingwilliamstown, June 3.

ROBINSON, M. B. – DAHL, T. E., Kimberley, June 2.

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

DEATHS

BEALE, MISS C. E., Cape Town, June 3, aged 80.

COX, F. H., Kimberley, June 2, aged 34

KING, MRS. J. W., Fairfield Farm, Cathcart, May 28, aged 27.

KNIGHTS – On June 16, by the wreck of the Drummond Castle, Bryans Thomas Knights, of the firm of Knights and Stephens, Johannesburg, solicitor, deeply lamented by his only sister, and nephew, nieces, and friends.

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

PULLIN – On June 21, at Rahere House, Sidmouth, Devon, Doris Percival, the darling child of Annie and Bingley Pullin, aged 23 months.

SOLOMON, MISS L., Cape Town, May 30, aged 68.

STEPHENS – On June 16, by the wreck of the Drummond Castle, Harold Stephens, his wife Anne Sophia Stephens, and their daughter Anne Berkeley, aged two years; Harold Stephens, of the firm of Knights and Stephens, solicitors, Johannesburg, second son of the late Henry Stephens, M. R. C. S., and Anne Stephens, late of Grove House, Finchley; Anne Sophia Stephens, wife of the above Harold Stephens, daughter of the late Harald Skophammer, formerly an officer in the Norwegian Army, and Johanna, his wife, who subsequently married the Rev. George F. Carlsen, now of Enhlazana Mission Station, Transvaal.

SULLIVAN, MRS. A., Cape Town, June 2, aged 78.

TILBROOK, MRS. E., Graaf Reinet, June 7, aged 65.

VICKERY, J. H., Uitenhage, May 29, aged 86.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

At Umvoti, Victoria County, Natal, an Indian family and visitors found two huts set on fire while they were sleeping and the doors fastened on the outside. One child was burned to death, but the others managed to escape.

Mrs. Amm, the estimable lady, wife of Mr. S. G. Amm, of Salem, died in Grahamstown, after a short illness, induced, primarily, by blood poisoning from snake bite. Mrs. Amm was a daughter of Mr. Matthews, Special Justice of the Peace.

Mr. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) interviewed Presented Kruger on behalf of the American section of the “Reform” prisoners. His Honour, in reply, said he was very friendly with the United States, and it was his disposition to be lenient to American prisoners.

A case of smuggling French jewellery, chronicled some time ago, recently came before the Johannesburg Court. The accused had smuggled goods to the value of L850, on which a duty of L170 should have been paid. Ignorance of the law was pleaded, but the Court inflicted a fine of L750 and confiscation of the jewellery.