This is a transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, 21 August 1909, titled Domestic Announcements:

 

[Announcements under this heading are charged for at a minimum of 5s., which in all cases must be prepaid. All notices must be properly authenticated.]

 

BIRTHS

 

BARRETT-LENNARD—On the 13th inst., at Lyminge, the wife of  William Barrett-Lennard, a daughter.

BRANDT—On July 16, at Johannesburg, Rev. and Mrs. Brandt, a son.

EYRE—On the 6th inst., at Port Nolloth, at the Residency, the wife of Owen Strong Eyre, R.M., a daughter.

HARDIE—On July 24, at Germiston, the wife of John Hardie, a daughter.

LEIGH—On July 18, at Benoni, Transvaal, the wife of A. Leigh, a daughter.

RANGELEY—At Fort Jameson, North-Eastern Rhodesia, on July 2, the wife of Henry Rangeley, of a son.

RIVETT-CARNAC—On the 17th inst., at Grahamstown, the wife of Arthur Temple Rivett-Carnac, of Brandeston, a son.

THAIN—On July 19, at Denver, Transvaal, to Mr. and Mrs. Thain, a son.

 

MARRIAGES

 

CRUNDALL—BRISLEY—On the 5th inst., at Dover, by the Bishop of Mashonaland, Percy Crundall to Caroline Maud Brisley.

DOUGLAS-HAMILTON—CLOETE—On the 4th inst., at Paddington, by the Venble. H. A. Douglas-Hamilton, Domestic Chaplain to Earl Cadogan, K.G., brother of the bridegroom, Augustus Maynard, second son of the late General Douglas-Hamilton, to Frances Wilhelmina Cloete, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Dirk Cloete, of Alphen, Wynberg.

HART—GREENHEAD—On July 20, at Johannesburg, Victor James Hart, of Richmond, Virginia, to Annette Caroline (Nettie) Greenhead, of Johannesburg.

HILDITCH—EGLINGTON—On the 12th inst., at Carshalton, Robert P. Hilditch, eldest son of the late Mr. R. Hilditch, to Emily Annie Eglington, only daughter of Dr. T. J. Dixon, of Potchefstroom.

LYON-WILLIAMS—READ—On July 14, at Westminster, Benjamin Stewart, youngest son of the late Benjamin and Mrs. Lyon-Williams, of Southampton, to Harriet Maud, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Read, of Hampstead.

MACKESSACK—COLEMAN—On the 11th inst., at Curepipe, Mauritius, Major Peter Mackessack, R.A.M.C., to Margaret Coleman.

RAYNER—ALDOUS—On July 16, at the English Church, Bulawayo, by the Rev. Canon Hallward, Rector, William S. Rayner, of Bulawayo, to Jane Catherine Aldous, of Ceylon.

 

DEATHS

 

CARSE—On the 11th inst., at Edinburgh, James Carse, second youngest son of James Carse, late 72nd and 91st Highlanders.

COPLAND—On July 16, at Port Elizabeth, Robert, aged 55, youngest son of the late Joseph Copland, Glasgow.

MANKIEWICZ—On the 13th inst., at Amersham, George Augustus Mankiewicz, of 20, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, W., second son of the late James Mankiewicz, of Pembridge Square, W.

PELLOW—On July 18, at Johannesburg, Mary Pellow, late of Queenstown and Port Elizabeth.

SCHWIKKARD—On July 20, at Johannesburg, Amelia Louise Marie, aged 74, widow of the late Bernhard Schwikkard.

SINCLAIR—On June 30, at Walfisch Bay, South-West Africa, Frederick Charles Sinclair, M.D., late of Ballymena, Ireland.

TINDALL—On July 16, at Stellenbosch, the Rev. Henry Tindall, in his 79th year.

 

 

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

 

CASES IN THE COURTS

 

THE WILLENBERG CASE

 

The Willenberg case, which has been before the Cape Supreme Court for some months past, formed the subject of a further application to the Acting Chief Justice (Sir John Buchanan) recently.

 

Mr. Percy Jones, who appeared in support of the petition, explained that the Supreme Court had held that the late Hugh Greenshields died intestate. Mrs. Willenberg, or Mrs. Pirie, or whatever she might be called, was a legatee under the will, and Mrs. Pirie and the minor obtained leave to appeal to the Privy Council, but since leave to appeal had been granted negotiations had taken place with a view to a settlement, and the settlement formed the basis of the present petition, to which all the parties had agreed. There was a further application for an order that the record of the proceedings in the Divisional Court, in November, 1908, should be referred back to Mr. Justice Hopley, whose decision had been reversed on appeal. Mr. Jones recalled that proceedings were taken by Willenberg against his wife, who made a counter claim on the ground of nullity. Mr. Justice Hopley found that there never was any marriage, but the Court of Appeal held that there was a marriage, and consequently the action, so far as concerned Willenberg and his wife, was more or less pending.

 

The Acting Chief Justice suggested that it would be sufficient to set the case down for hearing, and this course was adopted. As to the distribution of the estate, the Court made an order discharging the leave to appeal to the Privy Council and confirming the agreement which had been arrived at between the parties.

 

ATTACKED BY DOGS

 

In the Pretoria Civil Court recently, Mrs. Lawton claimed the sum of £100, being damages for injuries alleged to have been received from two dogs, the property of Messrs. Ware and Budd. The complaint was that the dogs attacked her, tore her clothes, and bit her arms. For the defence it was contended that complainant had illegally entered the premises where the dogs were and kicked them. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £5 and costs against Mr. Ware, and judgment was given in Mr. Budd’s favour with costs.

 

MR. W. J. BENSON

 

We are informed that Mr. W. J. Benson, Joint General Manager of the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, will be proceeding to England in a few months in order to take up the position of Manager of the Company in London. Mr. Benson has been prominently connected with Johannesburg since the war, and prior to his taking up his present appointment was for some years Manager of the Standard Bank at Johannesburg. The good wishes of many friends will go with him in his new sphere of activity.

 

 

At Cape Town recently, a man was fined £2 for stealing a Persian cat belonging to the Governor of Cape Colony

 

Members of the various Zionist bodies on the Goldfields assembled at Johannesburg recently to commemorate the services of Dr. Theodore Herzl, who died on July 3, 1904.

 

On a charge of breaking a jeweller’s window in Rissik Street, Johannesburg, and with stealing various articles, Alex. Mitchell has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

 

Jack McLoughlin, who has been extradited from Brisbane on a charge of murdering two men at Johannesburg in 1895, arrived at Durban by the Waratah and was escorted to Johannesburg.

 

Three men were fined £10 each at Johannesburg recently for running gaming tables outside the entrance of Booysen’s racecourse. The ringleader, who acted as scout, was sentenced to four months’ hard labour, this being his second conviction.

 

Mrs. Young, an actress residing at Johannesburg, whose stage name is Miss Grace Dawson, has been sentenced at Pretoria to a month’s imprisonment without hard labour for bigamy. It appears she married Alexander Young, at Boston, England, in 1900, and William Walton Grisenthwaite, at Pretoria, in 1908.

 

CHINESE CONVICT SCALPED

 

A remarkable accident happened to a Chinese convict at the Cinderella Deep Gold Mine recently. He, along with other convicts, hired from the Prisons Department to the mining company, was at work on the mine’s property. He was working in the mill, and approached too near a fly-wheel, with the result that his pigtail became entangled in the spokes, and he was dragged round until scalped. He was afterwards conveyed to the Boksburg Hospital, where the flesh to which his hair and pigtail were attached was sewn to the scalp, and it is expected that he will be all right in a short while.

 

 

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

Email: harprulz@bellsouth.net