This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine September 11, 1909. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements"

 

BIRTHS

 

CRASTER – On August 27, at Salisbury, Rhodesia, the wife of Walter Spenser Craster, a son.

DAY – On August 13, at Cape Town, the wife of Percy W. Day, a daughter.

EDWARDS – On August 13, at Rondebosch, the wife of R. B. Edwards, a son.

HEPBURN – On August 12, at Bulawayo, to Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Hepburn, a son.

HORNE – On the 4th inst., at St. John’s, Rondebosch, to N. H. Knevett and L. May Horne, a daughter.

PROCTOR – On August 14, at Johannesburg, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. A. Proctor, a son.

STRONG – On August 7, at Port Nolloth, to Mr. and Mrs. O. C. H. Strong, a daughter.

 

MARRIAGES

 

KITCHIN – THOMSON – On the 6th inst., at the Congregational Church, Ross, Herefordshire, by the Rev. Charles T. Price, Joseph Kitchin, of  “Ingleneuk,” Brackley Road, Beckenham, Kent, son of Thomas and Marie Kitchin, of Nanaimo, British Columbia, to Annie Ethelinda Thomson, daughter of the late Dr. T. S. Thomson, and of Mrs. A. M. Baylis-Thomson, of Neyoor, Travancore, South India.

LITTLE – WOOLLEY – On July 14, at Bellair, Natal, Henry Charles Hamilton Little, of Leighton, Highlands, Natal, to Jessie Norah Kathleen, youngest daughter of James Bell Woolley, of Johannesburg.

LOTTER – MACRAE – On August 31, at Edinburgh, Dr. Z. D. Lotter, L.R.C.P., of South Africa, to Esther, second daughter of Alexander MacRae, of Edinburgh.

MCEWAN – AMM – On July 29, at Winburg, Arthur, fourth son of Councillor William McEwan, of Johannesburg, to Hilda Gladys, second daughter of William Henry Amm, of Rietfontein.

ROME – NOYCE – On July 24, at Heidelberg, Transvaal, Adrian Scott, second son of Thomas Rome and Mrs. Rome, of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, to Gwendolyn Olive, second daughter of F. A. Noyce and Mrs. Noyce, of Nigel.

SOAR – SCHNEBERGER – On the 8th inst., at St. John’s Church, Putney Hill, Clyde Alfred, third son of William Edward Soar, of Putney, to Alice Charlotte, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schneberger, of Putney Hill.

WATSON – MCKAY – On August 2, at Braamfontein, George Henry Watson, eldest son of the late George Watson, of Port Elizabeth, to Violet McKay, third daughter of Robert McKay, late of Cape Town.

YOUNG – CAITHNESS – On August 30, at Johannesburg, John Wharton Young, Johannesburg, younger son of the late John Young, Edinburgh, to Cora Althea, youngest daughter of Fred. Caithness, of Johannesburg.

 

GOLDEN WEDDING

 

DUNN – HOUSE – On September 3, 1859, at Port Elizabeth, by the Rev. Adam Robson, William, youngest son of the late John Dunn, of Paisley, Scotland, to Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of the late James House, of Grahamstown.

 

DEATHS

 

BENJAMIN – On the 6th inst., at Clapham, London, Saunders, the dearly-beloved husband of Elizabeth Benjamin, in his 65th year.

BROWN – On the 5th inst., at Beaumont Street, London, Thomas Devereux Brown, of East Putney, aged 49.

BROWNE – On August 10, at Cape Town, Frank Browne, late of Table Bay Harbour Board, aged 59.

HOLLEY – On August 30, at Maritzburg, James Hunt Holley, second son of the late James Hunt Holley, of Oaklands, Okehampton, Devon, aged 70.

LEONARD – On the 3rd inst., at Brussels, the Hon. James Weston Leonard, K.C., of Johannesburg, aged 56.

MCCULLOCH – On August 5, at Johannesburg, Alexander, youngest son of the late Rev. A. B. McCulloch, Chaplain, Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

NEILL – At Belingwe (of blackwater fever), George Baillie, aged 41 years, seventh son of the late Thomas Neill, F.E.I.S.

PIRIE – On August 10, at Cape Town, Alexander, eldest son of the late William A. Pirie and Mrs. Pirie, of Edinburgh, in his 35th year.

SASS – On August 11, at Woodstock, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Sass, aged 22.

SHIELDS – On the 2nd inst., at Kimberley, Thomas L. Shields, M.B., C.M., eldest surviving son of Thomas L. Shields, of Glasgow.

WINDHAM – On the 7th inst., in his 80th year, at Norbury, Surrey, Ashe Windham (second son of the late Joseph Smyth-Windham, 10th Hussars), of Wawne, Yorkshire, late Judge of the Native High Court, Natal. Cremation at Woking on Saturday, September 11. Funeral train leaves Westminster Bridge Road Station at 11:50 a.m. (Necropolis Co.). South African papers please copy.

WRIGHT – On June 24, at Kalene Hill, Rhodesia (of blackwater fever), David, son of David Wright, of Glasgow.

 

Miscellaneous articles on same page:

 

CAPE TOWN CANDLE FACTORY

 

Sir Peter Spokes, presiding yesterday at an extraordinary general meeting of Price’s Patent Candle Company, held at the Cannon Street Hotel, E.C., mentioned that since the last annual meeting an opportunity occurred for acquiring the South African Candle Works at Cape Town on terms which appeared favourable. The Board, after personal investigation on the spot by their General Manager, purchased the property, and had reason to believe that they would thus be enabled to maintain and extend the Company’s trade in South Africa, as the local conditions of preferential railway rates and duties levied on imported manufactures had made it difficult of late for the Company to realize a satisfactory profit.

 

THE  NATAL FIRE.

 

Further particulars are to hand regarding the disastrous grass fire at the Cedara Government Farm in Natal, which was referred to in last week’s South Africa. In the speed at which it spread and the fury with which it raged it was described as being worse than anything known in a 25 years’ experience of the Australian bush. The fire broke out, as far as can be ascertained, near the Railway cutting on the approach to Howick station, sparks from the engine of a passing goods train having set alight to the grass bordering on the rail route. Fanned into a blaze by the wind, the fire swept the grass-covered side of the hill above Franklin’s homestead, and on reaching the main road it passed up the slope, turned and rushed down the hill, sweeping through the trees above the railway bridge. Presently, in spite of all the efforts which were made to arrest the progress of the fire, the whole hillside became one mass of moving flame, which swept right across the vlei and attacked the avenue of pines and gum trees. So terrible was the onrush of the fire that the flames traveled a distance of over two miles in about seven minutes. In an instant the whole avenue of trees was enveloped in flame and smoke, and from the distant hill and the station nothing could be seen of the farm buildings. As the fire swept up the right side of the avenue the flames shot out and jumped a 50 feet road, burning through the trees on the other side. The heat was terrific, and when both sides of the avenue were ablaze it was absolutely impossible for anything living to remain near the scene. At one moment it was thought that the spacious store-rooms could not be saved. The wind carried a burning piece of tree across the avenue road and sent it through one of the windows of the shop. A haystack near the shop next caught fire, and the flames spread to near the blacksmith’s shop, which, however, escaped destruction. Rushing down the slope from the house of the forestry expert, the fire spread over a wide area of pine and other trees, destroying 350 acres out of 750 acres. The damage is estimated at between £15,000 and £20,000.