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This is a transcription of a Shipping List that appeared in the October 31st, 1896 issue of South Africa Magazine.

LIST OF PASSENGERS

Per the R.M.S. Norham Castle, sailing from Southampton today:--

MADEIRA

Mr. E. Edwards

CAPE TOWN

Dr. Reitz

Mrs. Reitz

Colonel O’Shaugnessy

Mr. R. L. David

Mrs. David

Mr. R. H. W. Becker

Mrs. Becker

Mr. H. Oppenheim

Valet

Mr. A. H. Oppenheim

Mr. S. J. Scott

Mr. S. Baldwin

Mr. C. L. Redwood

Mr. D. Krynauw

Mr. G. E. Jeffreys

Mr. Cartwright

Mr. Tyler

Mrs. Tyler

Mr. Beschy

Mr. H. Hellman

Mr. E. Goldschmidt

Captain Critchley

Captain Wilson-Todd

Captain Cunningham

Dr. W. C. Allen

Mrs. Cohn

Miss Cohn

Miss F. Cohn

Master Cohn

Mr. D. Provard

Mr. Clark

Mr. S. Hanan

Miss Schmolle

Miss Besselaar

Miss Hamilton

Mr. Sanders

Mr. J. Harrower

Mr. T. C. Williamson

Mr. Loewy

Mr. A. L. M. Bonn

Mr. Mulgrave

Mrs. Mulgrave

Mr. Rodger

Mr. J. J. Jucker

Mr. McCulloch

Mr. E. W. Meredith

Mr. lemmon

Mr. T. M. Rixon

Mr. G. M. Parsons

Miss Jeffreys

Mr. Delgeuw

Mr. Degond

Mr. Lorraine

Mr. R. Thompson

Mr. W. Watson

Mr. W. E. Turner

Mrs. Turner

Maid

Mr. S. Arndt

Mr. A. Greyham

Mr. F. J. Houghton, C. E.

Mr. A. R. Godring

Mr. Heathcote

Mr. J. Proctor

Mr. R. C. H. Finniss

Mr. C. W. Harrhy

Mr. J. F. L. Marston

Mr. G. Schulze

Dr. Jorissen

Miss Jorissen

Maid

Miss Mulgrave

Mr. Simms

Mr. H. M. Aberson

Mr. H. Goodman

Mrs. Goodman

Maid

Mrs. Sutton

Miss Sutton

Mrs. Ritchie

Miss Ritchie

Mr. Macrae

Mrs. Macrae

Mr. Oppenheimer

Mrs. Oppenheimer

Maid

Miss Oppenheimer

Master Oppenheimer

Mr. D. Draper

Mr. Siddle

Mrs. Siddle

Maids

Master Siddle

Mr. A. Janot

Miss A. Janot

Miss L. Janot

Mrs. Chaufour

Mr. J. Whittle

Miss Target

Maid

ALGOA BAY

Mr. A. Goodman

EAST LONDON

Miss Taylor

NATAL

Captain Henry

Mr. Beckford

Mrs. Hutchison

Mrs. F. Hutchison

Mr. R. A. Campbell

Miss Gibson

Mrs. Earle

Maid

Miss Earle

Miss F. Earle

Master Earle

Mr. de Jong

Per the R.M.S. Tartar, which arrived at Southampton on Monday:--

CAPE, &c.

Mr. J. Ord

Mr. A. J. Wilson

Dr. Mackenzie

Mr. Marquand

Mr. Raphael

Mrs. Raphael

Mr. H. E. Marples

Mr. Carl Brauer

Mr. Van Coevorden

Miss Brown

Miss Jensen

Mrs. Rookledge

Child

Mr. W. G. Ross

Mrs. Ross

Mr. W. P. Fisher

Mrs. Fisher

Children (4)

Maid

Mr. Mitchell

Mrs. Mitchell

Mrs. Malcolmson

Children (3)

Maid

Mrs. Grey

Mr. F. J. Marquand

Per the intermediate steamer Gaul, sailing from Southampton today:--

ASCENSION

Mrs. E. Turner

Miss Turner

Master Turner

Maid

CAPE TOWN

Captain Blum

Dr. R. Hamilton

Mr. A. F. Hennessy

Miss F. C. Cross

Mr. A. Cohen

Mr. H. van Dorp

Master van Dorp

Mr. T. F. Harvey

Mrs. Buchanan-Hamilton

Mr. J. Brass-Robertson

Mr. P. J. Wenham

Mrs. Bracklo

Mr. R. J. Gluyas

Mrs. Gluyas

Miss Gluyas

Mr. Le Bret

Mrs. Green

Miss Green

Mr. Astrop

Miss A. Balossi

Mrs. D. Borgato

Mr. B. A. Helm

ALGOA BAY

Lieutenant-Colonel Salmon

Mrs. Salmon

Mr. C. T. Hooper

NATAL

Mr. W. M. Farmer

Mr. C. Brockenshaw

Mr. H. Acutt

Mrs. Acutt

PASSENGERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

The following additional passengers have been booked for the various South Africa ports. By the Tartar, sailing on November 7: Dr. Campbell, Mr. J. W. Withycombe, Mr. H. Gatsworthy, Mr. J. Michaelson, Mr. Wilson, Mr. A. R. Alston, Mr. R. S. Cousens, Mr. H. Otto, Mr. and Mrs. Bretherton. By the Athenian, sailing on November 14: Mr. J. J. Palmer, Mr. A. Williams. By the Doune Castle, sailing on November 7: Lieutenant Heineman, Count Harra Zeppelin. By the Cunottar Castle, sailing on November 14: Lieutenant Harper, Dr. Loewy.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

Captain Corbett of the barque Eleanor M. Williams, which arrived in Durban recently from New York, reports that a mutiny took place amongst the crew of the John Swan, which sailed from Natal some months ago for an American port, and that the crew murdered the captain and his wife.

A correspondent in the Cape Argus says he hopes that the Castle Company will not finally discharge Quartermaster Charles Wood from their service. His voyage in the Dunvegan was the first after his terrible experience in the Drummond Castle, and whilst he must have been sober on board, for he could not get any liquor there, it was perhaps only natural that his unwise friends in Cape Town should deluge him with drinkg.

The Norwegians resident in Johannesburg and district celebrated the safe return of their countryman, Dr. Nansen, from the Polar regions by holding a banquet in his honour at the beginning of this month, at the North-Western Hotel. About 40 gentlemen attended. As a memento of the keen interest and genuine pride which Scandinavians in the Transvaal take in the exploits of the redoubtable explorer, a congratulatory cablegram was dispatched to Dr. Nansen. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Muller, the Secretary for the French Rand Mines, proposed the toast of the evening, that of Dr. Nansen, which was drunk with the greatest heartiness. Other toasts followed, and national songs were sung from time to time to the strains of the band in attendance. Altogether a most enjoyable and profitable evening was spent.

A Colesberg tradesman sent one of his boys, a raw native, to the Post Office to change an order for £10 10s. 10d. Presently he returned, and handed his master 10s. 10d. On being asked for the remainder he declared that was all, but the “boss” had given him two pieces of paper to wrap the money in. These, he said, he had thrown into the furrow outside. Search was immediately made, and the two pieces of paper—five-pound notes—were found.

At a special meeting of the Johannesburg Sanitary Board lately, a resolution was passed to call for tenders for lighting the suburbs of Johannesburg, viz., Jeppes, Troyeville, Doornfontein, New Doornfontein, Hospital Hill, and Clinton.

CASES IN THE COURTS

Recovery of Shares

On the reassembly of the Law Courts on Monday in the action of Bowler v. the Barberton Development Syndicate, Limited, the plaintiff appealed to the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and Lord Justice Lopes from an order of Mr. Justice Bruce in Chambers, in June last, granting a writ of prohibition in respect of an action in the Lord Mayor’s Court to recover 6000 shares. This was based on an agreement between the parties that the plaintiff should be entitled to 6000 shares for services rendered in behalf of a Company to be formed, and which had since been formed, as the Sheba Alliance Company, Limited. Plaintiff having received neither money nor shares, commenced the action; but on an affidavit (said counsel for the plaintiff) by Mr. Munns, the Secretary both to the defendant Company and to the Alliance, that the defendant Company was registered in Scotland and carried on its business there. Mr. Justice Bruce held that the action must be presented in Scotland. Hence the order now appealed against.

The case was adjourned, but ultimately, after argument.

The Master of the Rolls said the Court must carefully consider the cases which had been cited, and take time for that purpose.

EXTRADITED FROM THE CAPE

At the Central Criminal Court on Friday week last, James William Bowles, late a carman and contractor, Mendip Wharf, Battersea, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Bankruptcy Acts, in quitting England with a sum of £276, the money of his creditors.

Mr. C. F. Gill and Mr. Avory prosecuted for the Treasury, and Mr. C. Mathews represented the prisoner, who, within four months of his bankruptcy, when his liabilities were stated to amount to £10,000, drew £276 from his banking account and went to the Cape. E had been extradited from the Cape, and had been in custody nearly nine weeks.

Mr. Mathews urged mitigating circumstances, and called a number of witnesses, who gave the prisoner a long and excellent character.

The Recorded bound the accused over in his own recognizance of £10 to come up for sentence if called upon.

THEFT OF RHODESIAN SHARES

At the Harlesden Petty Seessions, Arthur Andrews, 36, described as a painter, of Clifton Mews, Maida Vale, was charged on remand with breaking and entering 35, Christchurch Avenue, Brondesbury, N.W., and stealing, between July 31 and August 19, 125 £1 shares in the Vincent’s Rhodesian Development Company, a quantity of plate and other articles, value £300, the property of George Vandamm, a solicitor; with breaking and entering 27 Anson Road, Cricklewood, N.W., and stealing jewellery, plate, and other articles, value £100, the property of Edward Brwn, a vocalist; and with breaking and entering 186, Willesden Lane, Brondesbury, and stealing a quantity of electro-plate, &c., value £10, the property of Arthur Ferguson, a merchant.

Some additional evidence having been offered, prisoner was fully committed for trial.

“GONE TO SOUTH AFRICA”

In the Divorce Court on Wednesday, in the undefended suit of Rickards v. Rickards and Moseley, Mr. Arthur Benjamin Rickards, a solicitor, sought a divorce by reason of his wife’s adultery with the co-respondent, Mr. Andrew James Moseley.

Mr. Gollan, who appeared for the petitioner, said the marriage took place on November 17, 1880. Down till 1895, Mr. and Mrs. Rickards lived upon affectionate terms, but in the summer of last year, while she was staying at Sunbury-on-Thames, she became acquainted with the co-respondent, who used to take her out on the river. This caused unpleasantness between husband and wife. When they resided in town he found that she was corresponding with Mr. Moseley, and on one occasion, when Mr. Rickards returned home unexpectedly, Mr. Moseley was at the house, he being eventually turned out by the petitioner. There was afterwards a talk of a separation, and it was arranged that she should go and see her sister in Manchester, she leaving in October, 1895. It appeared that she and the co-respondent went off to America, she passing by the name of Robinson. After her return, she sent him a telegram, and he went to see her. She then assured him that she had only passed as the co-respondent’s sister, and that she had acted as companion to Mrs. Du Preece. She gave him the name of an hotel to make inquiries, but he could find no one of that name was known there. Upon his return home he found his wife there, but he told her he could not stay in the same house with her. Some few days afterwards he went to the house and obtained possession of an hotel bill from San Francisco, which had been made out to “A. J. Moseley and wife.” Since then the respondent and co-respondent had both left the country, and were now in South Africa.

Evidence having been given in support of the above, the President pronounced a decree nisi with costs.

“HANDS ACROSS THE SEA”

The veteran Transvaal warrior, General Joubert, was recently the recipient of a letter of congratulation on the failure of the Jameson raid from the members of the “Hollandsche Vereeniging” of New York. He has penned a long letter of thanks, in the course of which he says: “I am greatly pleased that my visit in 1890 to your happy land is still remembered, and recall with pleasure the unbounded hospitatlity and marks of friendship shown to me by your Association and other friends. I regret that my time in the country was so short, and that I had so little opportunity to extend and strengthen those bonds of friendship. I hope however, that they will never be broken so long as the Transvaal and the United States exist. May those bonds be tween the two countries be increased and strengthened by commerce and social intercourse, whereby our peoples will learn to know each other better.” General Joubert adds: “Already many American articles are imported into this Republic, but only through indirect channels. How much more profitable would it be for both countries and peoples if our trade and intercourse were carried on direct, and not through a middleman who keeps all the advantages for himself. I trust, therefore, that the time will quickly come when there will be direct communication between us.”

BRIBERT IN EXCELSIS

We referred last week to the terms of the concession given to Mr. P. J. Maherry for the construction of the Machadodorp-Ermelo Railway extension in the Transvaal. By this week’s mail we have information that the concessionaire was arrested at Belfast on a charge of offering bribes of £5000 and £2000 respectively to Mr. Schalk Burger, M.L.C., and Mr. J. S. Smit, Railway Commissioner, on condition that they would give their support to his Company to obtain the right to construct the railway extension from Belfast to Lydenburg. The offers were made in letters addressed to these gentlemen, the condition being that they would use their influence to assist him to obtain the contract or concession. In his evidence before the Judicial Commissioner at Pretoria, Mr. Smit said that up to the present there was no intention to build such a line. He knew that there were memorials before the Volksraad praying for such a line, and it was quite possible that the Raad would sanction it, but nothing had been passed through is office. He considered that Maherry wished him to act contrary to his duty, and to violate his oath of office, which he would have done had he bound himself to support one particular applicant beforehand. He had not the right to have railway lines built. That depended on the Volksraad, but some small lines were built by the Government, although he had no pwer to authorize them. Mr. Schalk Burger also stated that the Executive could not pass lines, but once the lines were approved of, the Executive was requested to issue contracts, and he could use his influence and vote in favour of one applicant and oppose another.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton