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This is a transcript of a Shipping List from South Africa Magazine for November 14^th, 1896

LISTS OF PASSENGERS

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

MADEIRA

Mr. H. G. Wilson, R.N.

Mr. R. Horne

CAPE TOWN

Professor Koch

Mrs. Koch

Dr. Kohlstock

Mrs. Kohlstock

Dr. J. Thomas

Mr. J. P. Fitzpatrick

Mrs. Fitzpatrick

Maid

Master Fitzpatrick

Master A. Fitzpatrick

Dr. Loewy

Dr. Drew

Mr. Dalrymple

Mrs. Dalrymple

Maid

Mr. Malleson

Mrs. Malleson

Maid

Miss Malleson

Mr. J. Isaacs

Mr. J. T. Morrison

Mr. G. M. Bourke

Mr. E. Bauer

Mr. F. H. Biddell

Mr. Eastwood

Mr. Harris

Mrs. Harris

Miss Naizille

Mr. Brydone

Mrs. Brydone

Miss Brydone

Mrs. Rochlin

Mr. C. Mertens

Mrs. Edgeworth

Miss Edgeworth

Miss Maasberg

Mr. Eubell

Mrs. Eubell

Miss Eubell

Mrs. G. Stevens

Mrs. Anderson

Mr. Yprey

Mr. Carvanno

Mr. R. Russell

Mr. J. Barnett

Mr. Seehoff

Mrs. Seehoff

Maid

Miss Seehoff

Master Seehoff

Mr. G. M. Parsons

Mr. H. C. Pollitt

Mr. F. B. Pollitt

Mr. H. Buckner

Mr. Isaacs

Mr. G. Henriksen

Mr. N. Henriksen

Mr. Forrest

Mr. J. Ginsberg

Mrs. Ginsberg

Maid

Miss Ginsberg

Master Ginsberg

Mr. R. Harwood

Mr. L. Grunberg

Mr. Shepstone

Mr. T. Shepstone

Baron de Beville

Valet

Baroness de Beville

Miss de Beville

Dr. Hewat

Mrs. Hewat

Miss Hewat

Miss F. Hewat

Master Hewat

Dr. David Gill, C.B., F.R.S.

Mrs. Gill

Rev. J. J. McClure

Mrs. McClure

Maid

Miss McClure

Miss A. McClure

Miss T. McClure

Master McClure

Mr. C. S. Sanderson

Mr. R. H. Bland

Mr. Ruxton

Mr. Sabelson

Mr. A. Leys

Mr. E. Campbell

Mr. R. S. Hunter

Mr. H. J. Coster

Mr. Max Salaman

Miss Ryecroft

Mr. S. Morris

Mrs. Morris

Mr. Forrest

Miss Forrest

Maid

Miss Frendenthal

Miss Eaton

Miss Dreyer

Mrs. Parsons

Mrs. Hyman

Miss Hyman

Miss F. Hyman

Mrs. Ellis Edwards

Miss Edswards

Miss Oppenheim

Miss A. Oppenheim

Mr. T. B. Clough

Mr. Bartels

Miss Rathfelder

Miss Richter

Maid

Miss Drew

Mr. H. Gibbs

Miss C. E. Stewart

Mr. Maurice

Mr. Patterson

Mr. H. C. Jones

Mrs. Jones

Mrs. Harris

Nurse Brown

Mr. J. W. Blackstone

Mr. C. Walker

Mr. H. J. Marshall

Miss Meidell

Mrs. Pistorius

Mr. Hector

ALGOA BAY

Mrs. Watson

Miss Watson

Master Watson

Master T. Watson

Mr. Elkam

Mr. J. W. Philip

Mr. Ogilvie

NATAL

Rev. P. A. Miller

Mrs. Miller

Mr. Labistour

Mrs. Kavanagh

Miss Kavanagh

Mr. L. Kavanagh

Mr. B. G. Kavanagh

Mr. I. Kavanagh

Mr. H. G. Maby

Miss Maby

Mr. Macpherson

Master Macpherson

Mr. A. E. Thompson

Mr. F. J. Kirk

M. G. A. Ure

Lieutenant L. L. Harper

Mr. Bertram Mitford

Mrs. Hughes-Chamberlain

Maid

Miss Hughes-Chamberlain

Miss F. Hughes-Chamberlain

Master Hughes-Chamberlain

Mr. J. Higgins

Mrs. Cartwright

Miss M. Goodricke

Mrs. Miller

Miss Miller

Miss Widdicombe

MAURITIUS

Major G. d’A Alexander

Mrs. Alexander

Maid

Per the R.M.S. Moor, which arrived at Southampton last Sunda:--

CAPE, &c.

Mr. J. Bendix

Mr. Winby

Mr. L. Beerstecher

Mr. K. Brenkman

Mr. W. L. Levey

Mr. Whiteley

Mr. Hirtzel

Mr. D. J. Pullinger

Valet

Mr. Webner

Mrs. Webner

Miss Webner

Miss Webner

Miss Webner

Maid

Nurse

Mr. C. Adams

Maor Laing

Mr. F. W. G. Moir

Lieutenant-Colonel Serjeant

Mr. F. Cohen

Valet

Mrs. Butt

Mr. H. Tebb

Mr. Cagi

Mr. Davies

Miss Johnstone

Mr. F. R. Lingham

Mr. Stock

Mr. D. Hart

Mr. Burrows

Captain Ware

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

MADEIRA

Miss Roberts

Miss Shepherd

Miss Shepherd

Mr. J. Lonsdale

Miss B. Lonsdale

Mr. W. C. Carre

TENERIFFE

His Honour Judge David Lewis

Mrs. Lewis

Dr. Brown

Mr. L. Scott-Bell

Miss Scott-Bell

Miss Scott-Bell

Mr. H. W. Nicholson

Mrs. Nicholson

Mr. Bullen

Mrs. Bullen

Miss Bullen

Mr. W. Howard Horder

Mr. H. Karsten

Mr. B. Woodd

Miss Wilton

Miss Weber

Mr. E. Francis

Mr. A. E. F. Francis

Mr. Renton

CAPE TOWN

Mr. C. D. Rudd

Valet

Miss Rudd

Maid

Mr. J. J. Palmer

Miss Hoffmann

Rev. Clementson

Miss Clementson

Mr. M. H. Morris

Mr. A. Williams

Mr. J. Ward

Mr. J. M. Drury

Mr. C. Hoffmann

Mrs. Hoffman

Miss Krynauw

Fraulein Jaeppett

Mr. Lionel Boyle

Mrs. Lionel Boyle

Mrs. E. Holroyd

ALGOA BAY

Mr. A. Munro

NATAL

Miss M. S. Southey

Miss E. R. Southey

PASSENGERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

The following additional passengers have been booked for the various South African ports. By the Dunvegan Castle, sailing on November 28: Mr. Solly Joel, Mr. and Mrs. E. De Villiers, Mr. Rochfort Maguire, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robinson and family, Rev. and Mrs. Astrup, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hart. By the Roslin Castle, sailing on December 12: Captain Barlow. By the Tantallon Castle, sailing on January 8: Mr. E. B. Dore, Mr. and Mrs. Mackie Niven and family, Dr. A. K. Howden. By the Moor, sailing on November 21: Mr. Paske, Mr. K. Baswitz, Mr. William Stephenson, Mr. Dittmar and family, Mrs. Grey, Mr. J. McWilliam, Mr. Mark E. Cary, Miss A. Trigg. By the Greek, sailing on November 28: Messrs. H. and T. Price, Miss Price, Mr. Watson, Miss Chapman, Mr. F. Whiteley, Mr. R. Halewick and family, Dr. O. Neumann, Mr. F. J. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. Landsberg.

A Kingwilliamstown contemporary reports a fatal poisoning case from “Rough on Rats.” Some of the poison was mixed with tracle for rats, and several members of the family of the name of Simpson inadvertently partook of the mixture. A child died; four others recovered.

Lately great consternation prevailed among the inhabitants of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, the scene of the late dynamite explosion. Women and their families lefgt their homes and wandered into Fordsburg. The reason was that several wagon loads of what was supposed to be dynamite were encamped on the site of the late explosion. There was no danger signal to give notice of its presence. Ever since the explosion, to mention “dynamite” is enough to scare the inhabitants of Vrededorp. A deputation waited on Field-cornet Lombaard, who ordered its immediate removal. All that was done for the time being was to hoist a red flag upon the wagons. Towards evening it was finally carted away. During the whole day the people were out of Vrededorp, too frightened to go near their houses. The railway officials explain that the trucks did not contain dynamite, but gunpowder, and that they made every effort to have it removed by the consignees, but the day being Sunday, Mr. Lippert’s men refused to deal with it.

CASES IN THE COURTS

LENT BY AN ACTRESS

At the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday an adjourned meeting of creditors was held in the case of Charles-Crowden, a stockbroker’s clerk, lately residing at Eastbourne. Miss Constance Collier, the well-known actress, proved for 75 Pounds money lent, and also claimed a ring which she had entrusted to the bankrupt to get repaired. The debtor, it was stated, had gone to Johannesburg. It was intimated that “further inquiries” would be prosecuted.

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTS

On Saturday last, in the Queen’s Bench Division, before Mr. Justice Grantham, the cases were listed for hearing of the United African Collieries Limited, v. Lavender and the same v. Wood. The first was an action by the plaintiff Company against Mr. Charles Henry Nalder Lavender, an accountant, of Finsbury Circus, to recover 90 Pounds 5s., being the amount alleged to be due by the defendant, as a member of the Company, as application money at the rate of 2s. 6d. per share on 365 shares in the Company, and 2s 6d. each as allotment instalments on the same number of shares. In the second action the plaintiff Company sought to recover from Mr. J. Sadleir Wood, of Coleman Street, chartered accountant, the sum of 182 Pounds 10s, being 2s 6d. per share as application money and 2s. 6d. as allotment instalments on 730 shares in the plaintiff Company. The case for the plaintiffs was that the defendants had agreed to underwrite the number of shares in respect of which the actions were brought. The defence set up by both defendants when the case was before the Court on a former occasion was that they did not apply for the shares, nor had they received any letters from the Company calling upon them to fulfil their underwriting engagements. On the case being called on on Saturday, it was announced that an arrangement had been arrived at, by which the defendants consented to judgment being entered for the plaintiffs in each case for the amount claimed, with costs, less 10 per cent., the underwriting commission due to defendants.

AFRICAN CONTRACTS CORPORATION

In the Companies Winding-up Court on Wednesday, Mr. Abinger, for J. T. Hazeldine, who had petitioned for an order to wind up the African Contracts Corporation, Limited, he being a judgment creditor for 149 Pounds, intimated that immediately the petition was presented the defendant Company served them with a summons to set aside the judgment. He therefore, had to ask that the petition be adjourned till after the rehearing of the action in the Queen’s Bench.

Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams refused, pointing out that as the claim was still in dispute, the petition should not have been brought. He must dismiss the petition.

Mr. Johnstone-Edwards (for the Company) asked for costs.

His Lordship: Yes; against the petitioner if he fails in the action.

Mr. Abinger: And if we succeed?

Is Lordship: Then you get nothing.

The petition was dismissed.

KLERKSDORP REEFS, LIMITED

The petition of Jacob Barnett for an order for the compulsory winding up of Klerksdorp Reefs Limited, was heard on Wednesday by Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams.

Mr. Eve, Q.C., for the petitioner, said his client was a shareholder, and the answer that was being made to the petition was tat there was already pending a voluntary winding up, and, therefore, that being so, a shareholder was not entitled to ask the Court to make a compulsory order. That would doubtless, be so if there were a well-constituted voluntary winding up; but there had been a slip, with the result that no voluntary liquidation could be going on. The first meeting, at which the special resolution was passed, was held on October 8, and the confirmatory meeting on October 22, which left only 13 clear days between the two meetings. That did not comply with the requirement of the section, and therefore there was no voluntary winding up. Another ground of the petition was that the substratum of the Company was gone, and that the winding up had been brought about by persons who were not shareholders, and who, if their names were on the register, were there under circumstances which precluded them voting at the meeting. The Company was formed in September, 1895, to acquire from a Mr. Daly 48 claims in the South African Republic. By the agreement the vendor undertook, on condition that the Directors went to allotment as soon as 3500 shares were applied for, that he would apply for 1500, and that if the other 1500 were not applied for by the public, he would apply for 6500 more. Having regard to the nature of that agreement, it was not wonderful that applications for the first 3500 came at once from two gentlemen—Elliot and Brown—who paid the small application money necessary, but who had not paid a penny more since. The Directors allotted these shares to these gentlemen, and judgment had been recovered against one of them for the unpaid calls; but that judgment was wholly unsatisfied, and, according to the evidence, the money was not recoverable. Having only the calls on Mr. Elliot and Mr. Brown, the Company had not the necessary fees for keeping alive their right to the claims in South Africa, with the result that those claims had been lost to them. He submitted that the manner in which the Directors had got hold of his client’s property, proceeded to allotment, and allotted to those persons without inquiry as to their position, put them in such a position as to make them answerable.

After some conversation, his Lordship held that the petitioner had not complied with the conditions required by the Act, and dismissed the petition with costs.

GLOBE BLOCKS GOLD

Two motions to rectify the register of the Globe Blocks Gold Mining Company, by removing the names of a Mr. Evans in respect of 200 shares and of Mr. Wight in respect of 100 shares, and for repayment of the instalments paid by them, were heard by Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams on Wednesday last.

Mr. Butcher said that the prospectus stated that 25,000 Pounds for working capital had been guaranteed, and other statements which proved inaccurate. The liquidator did not propose to contest the application.

His Lordship made the order asked for.

The re-union of Tynesiders in Durban took place just before the mail left.

Mark Twain has settled in London for the winter. It is his intention to remain at this side of the Atlantic until next summer.

Considerable friction has arisen between the Liberal Unionists of Cardiff and the member for the Borough with reference to the attitude taken by Mr. Maclean in severely criticizing Mr. Chamberlain’s Colonial policy, and also with his attitude on the Armenian question; and this has culminated in a letter of protest from the Secretary of the local branch of Unionists, addressed to Dr. Treharne, president of the Cardiff Conservative Association. In that letter exception is taken to a speech last week delivered at Cardiff which, in the judgment of the Unionists, was a declaration of want of confidence in the present Government, and of desire that its policy and composition should be materially altered. Mr. Andrews, the writer, proceed: “We do not think that Conservatives, as a party, will particularly approve of the attempt to identify their wing of the party with the policy of ignoring cruelties inflicted on Armenians, or of forcing quarrel on Boers in South Africa.” Dr. Treharne has replied that Mr. Maclean is not out of sympathy with the Armenians, there being no real divergence of opinion from that of the Government; that his views on South Africa are shared by many others, and that a member of Parliament ought to be allowed freedom of speech so long as he did not declare himself hostile to the Government. There the matter ends for the present. In the speech referred to, Mr. Maclean took the same view as Lord Salisbury on the Armenian question, but, writing in the press on isolated action by England, said that Conservatives should see that their principles predominated, and that the part of the world where Conservative policy was desirable was in South Africa, where Mr. Chamberlain had lowered the prestige of the country.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton