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This is a transcription of the Shipping Lists from South Africa Magazine dated January 12, 1918.

LISTS OF PASSENGERS

ARRIVALS

Mr. J. Brebner

Mr. E. R. Cosgrove

Mrs. Cosgrove

Mr. J. A. Dennison

Mr. A. F. Francois

Mr. A. E. Frost

Mrs. Gunning

Mr. B. A. Harvey

Mr. R. J. C. Smith

Mr. W. M. Robertson

Mr. L. Ussher

Mr. A. D. Adams

Rev. E. R. Blundell

Mrs. Blundell

Miss M. Boyle

Mr. A. Brodie

Mr. W. S. Castleton

Miss C. Cross

Mr. R. Dennis

Mr. W. J. Doig

Miss V. Dundon

Miss E. Ellis

Mr. W. J. Farrell

Mr. A. Gee

Mr. W. F. Glanville

Mr. R. M. Gordon

Mr. C. Gray

Mr. L. R. Grice

Mr. A. Hammond

Miss M. Hickey

Mr. G. Hamlett

Mrs. Hamlett

Miss Hamlett

The Masters Hamlett (3)

Mr. S. J. Holbrook

Mr. T. Jenkins

Mr. S. Kahan

Mrs. D. Kennan

Miss Kennan

Mr. P. Lacey

Miss M. McCarthy

Mr. J. E. McGibney

Mr. H. McKenna

Miss M. Meiring

Mr. W. B. Nicol

Mr. T. J. Phillips

Mr. E. Pollett

Mr. F. Rice

Mrs. M. Ritchie

Miss Ritchie

Mr. E. F. E. Ryan

Mr. T. Sanderson

Mr. W. Simmens

Mr. A. E. Simpson

Mr. J. T. Warne

Mr. A. Warren

Mr. W. Williams

Mr. M. L. Williams

Mr. W. J. P. Woodhouse

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

The wharf at Tete is to be extended.

The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, Limited, has bought a corner property in Loveday and Commissioner Streets, Johannesburg.

It has been officially notified that the floating dock at Durban will be placed out of commission for a period of approximately five months from April 18 next for the purpose of overhaul.

The whole of the salvage wirk in connection with the refloating of the Galway Castle was carried out under the supervision of the nautical adviser to the Administration, Captain Rennie.

The Admiralty is reported to be making a special inquiry into the delay of naval transports at Durban. The cost of one day’s delay may be, it is said, anything from £400 to £1000.

In the annual report of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha it is stated that, as the result of the inauguration of a line to South America, via the Cape of Good Hope, Japanese goods were sent in considerable quanitity to South Africa to replace European goods.

25 Years Ago

(‘South Africa,” Jan. 14, 1893)

Mr. Rhodes has arrived at Cairo.

The Delagoa Bay-Pretoria Railway.

Mr. G. S. Keene on the Murchison Range.

An official report of the Kaiser Wilhelm Goldfields.

No. 9 of “In and Around Africa,” by “Our Special Commissioner.”

The De Beers Mines will shortly introduce a system of eight hours shifts.

Prospectus of the British South-West African Land and Mining Company, Limited.

The Transvaal is losing three of its best cricketers—Halliwell, Routledge, and Piton.

President Kruger says he is an old man, but not too old, he hopes, to build iron ships.

According to Mr. H. Binns, M.L.C., there is room in the coast district of Natal for a large number of settlers.

A Krugersdorp storekeeper was fined £10 for using “seditious” language, because he said he was keeping all his rotten eggs to pelt President Kruger with.

Pretoria is now brought within twenty-two days’ journey of London, while a well-appointed service of coaches will thence carry the visitor in two or three days to the very borders of Mashonaland.

On December 7 about sixty gentlemen, most of them prominent members of the Rand Stock Exchange, attended a banquest at the Central Hotel, Johannesburg, given to Mr. S. B. Joel, the local representative of the firm of Messrs. Barnato Brothers, on his departure for England on a holiday trip.

Mr. Arnold Orsmond, Resident Magistrate of Potchhefstroom, died recently.

MISSING RELATIVES

DOCHERTY—News wanted of Thomas DOCHERTY, a bricklayer. Laster heard of in 1912 in South Africa. Alice DOCHERTY, care of Editor, S.A.

DYSON, Herbert, was last heard of at Umtata, February, 1916. Mother asks.

FISHER, W., last heard of at Bembesi Siding. Mrs. Fisher, 103, Osborne Road South Acton, W.

GOODCHILD, Samuel, left Kingston-on-Thames 1900; last wrote from Johannesburg 1902. Sister asks.

HANCHER, Herbert Fletcher, left High Street, Battersea, 16 years ago; was last heard of leaving Pretoria for Johannesburg 11 years ago. Sister Alice asks.

HIGGINSON, Richard, formerly sheep farming in Australia; last heard of about to leave for South Africa 1900. Aileen Renny, of India, is anxious to hear from her brother.

MACKENZIE, Mrs. Alice, last heard of in Cape Town. Barbara Macdonald, 11, Hampton Road, Sandylands, Morecambe

POLLARD (Mary and Ernest) were last heard of Gwanda Station, 1914. Sister Rebecca asks.

SMITH, Harry Leslie, last heard of in South Africa about 1907. Inquirer, son, F. Smith, 56, Tetcott Road, Chelsea, S.W.

TAGGART, Thomas Rupert, a carpenter, left London for South Africa, 1904; last heard of Christmas, 1910, Benoni. Sister Ellen asks.

THOMSON, William Robert, last heard of Boksburg Hospital, November 3, 1907. Inquirer, sister, Jeanie E. THOMSON, now Mrs. BARCLAY, Postmistress, Grassmarket, Edinburgh.

WOOD, Leslie, last heard of at Johannesburg. Inquirer, brother, John WOOD, Edinburgh Road, Penicuik, Edinburgh.

Mr. A. G. Richardson is leaving Grey College School, having acceptated an appointment as Principal and House Master of Umtata School. Mr. G. Floyd is also resigning to take up the position of Vice-Principal and House Master of Muir College, Uitenhage; while Mr. N. Coaker has accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s College, Bloemfontein. They are to be succeeded by Messrs. R. Duncan, M.A. (Hons.) (Aberdeen), at present Vice-Principal of the Vrede Secondary School, C. Kewley, M.A. (Cantab), Principal of a school in the Fauresmith district, and J. F. van Eyssen, B.A., at present Vice-Principal at Clocolan.