Saturday 2 June 1888

DIED at Grahamstown on June 2nd 1888, Stephen BAX Sen, aged 85 years and 3 months.
The Funeral of the above will leave his late residence, Beaufort-street, tomorrow (Sunday) morning at half past 9 o’clock. Friends invited to attend.

DEATH OF THE REV. J.A. CHALMERS
After a lingering illness of several months, during which it was evident that his physical powers had become entirely exhausted, this esteemed Minister passed away at about 10 o’clock on Friday morning last. For some days previously he had been gradually sinking, and a long period of apparent unconsciousness preceded his actual decease, which was tranquil and painless. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon. We will at present simply record our deep sympathy with the afflicted family, and our painful sense of the loss which not only his friends and kindred, his Church and his fellow citizens, but the whole Colony has sustained in the removal of one who was so faithful and devoted a Minister, so skilled in native affairs, so courageous and right-hearted a citizen. Such a death leaves our community sensibly poorer, and it will be difficult indeed to fill the place of our deceased friend.

ENTERED INTO REST, the Rev. John Aitken CHALMERS, Minister of Trinity Church, on the 1st June 1888, in his 52nd year.
“After he had served his own generation, by the will of God, he fell on sleep.”
The Funeral of the late Rev. J.A. CHALMERS will leave Trinity Church at 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
A. WILL, Undertaker

Tuesday 5 June 1888

MARRIED on June 4th 1888, in Uitenhage, by Special Licence, Hezekiah HEELEY to Frances Harriet FISH, second daughter of the late James FISH, of Uitenhage.

[Transcriber’s Note: There is a lengthy description of the funeral of the Rev. J.A. CHALMERS, including the funeral addresses, which takes up nearly four entire columns, but I am unable to read it clearly.]

Thursday 7 June 1888

SKETCH OF REV. J.A. CHALMERS’ LIFE
We learn from the Rev. G. CROSS’s letter to a contemporary that he was in no sense the author of the sketch which we were enabled on Tuesday to publish. Mr. CROSS even expresses his surprise at seeing it in print. We may remark that it had been our intention to use those notes (the use of which was kindly permitted us by Mr. W.B. CHALMERS) as the groundwork of a fuller article, but the delay which we encountered in obtaining possession of the MS rendered this impossible.

Saturday 9 June 1888

BY CABLE – MARRIED – GLANFIELD-BAKER
At Christ’s Church, Lancaster Gate, London W., on June 5th, Robert Henry GLANFIELD, second son of George GLANFIELD, Hale End, Woodford, Essex, to Mabel Coles, eldest daughter of Herbert H.C. BAKER, Glendower House, King Williamstown.

DEATH OF MR. J.J. CAWOOD
The death is announced of Mr. J.J. CAWOOD C.E., at Johannesburg from an attack of paralysis. Mr. CAWOOD was an able engineer and had been for ten years in the service of the Colonial Government on the Grahamstown, Cradock, Hanover and Kimberley lines.

MAYOR OF KINGWILLIAMSTOWN
Mr. C.A. JAY has been unanimously re-elected as Mayor of Kingwilliamstown. Mr. JAY is well known in Port Elizabeth, where for some years he held a good position in the Standard Bank. He is now in business in Kingwilliamstown, and is evidently a popular and useful citizen.

Tuesday 12 June 1888

DIED at Lansdowne Lodge, Grahamstown, June 7th, Chas. Allen, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Restall STOCKS, aged 2 years 2 months.

KILLED BY A HORSE
A man named Mr. MANDERS, a resident of Potchefstroom, met his death in that town last week. He had outspanned his horses and was watching them drinking at the furrow. He went forward and patted one of them on the hind quarter, when the horse lashed out with his heels, striking Mr. MANDERS in the pit of the stomach. Everything that medical skill could suggest was done, but the unfortunate man, after lingering in agony for a few days, died.

THE LATE MISS GLANVILLE
The following notice of the late Miss GLANVILLE, for some years Curator of the Albany Museum, and her work, appears in the Entomologist for June 1888. It is from the pen of Miss ORMEROD, who has on several occasions shown her sympathy with fellow workers in this Colony. This tribute to the memory of the deceased cannot fail to be exceedingly gratifying to her friends:-
Intelligence of the death of Miss GLANVILLE, the able and kind-hearted Lady Curator of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa, will be received with great regret by her Home friends, and in her South African scientific labours amongst her many surrounding friends in her own adopted land her loss will be keenly felt.
On the decease of her father, the late B.J. GLANVILLE, who might be termed the founder of the Albany Museum at Grahamstown, Miss E. GLANVILLE was, to the great gratification of those connected with Natural History in that district, elected to take his place, and there up to her last illness terminating in her decease on April 4th, she worked with an assiduity and intelligence which rendered the arrangements strikingly methodical and complete.
Her special claim to notice of the readers of the Entomologist rests on the practical, as well as scientific, attention she has long been rendering to economic entomology. For years she has especially devoted attention to the life histories of the injurious crop-insects of Eastern province, South Africa, and, in co-operation with a few other leading observers, forwarded specimens of some of the most injurious kinds to the writer of this paper, together with such notes as could be procured of their histories.
Those who are intimately acquainted with the general carelessness existing as to these points in ordinary colonial life, will appreciate the difficulties of the work – nevertheless Miss GLANVILLE by her hearty devotion was able to collect some amount of information, which there is good reason to hope will prove a nucleus (a sound starting point) for information to gather round, which will be of solid future benefit to the agriculturists of the Eastern portion of the Colony.
A part of the information sent by Miss GLANVILLE, as well as figures of some of the crop-insects forwarded, will shortly be given in the pages of this work.
It has fallen to the lot of the writer of these lines to offer a short note on the good work accomplished by Miss GLANVILLE, as from the fact of both being workers in the same field, she was well aware of the difficulties the young Lady Curator had to struggle with, and how bravely she did her work, and has been therefore especially requested by South African correspondents to offer some notes on it to the readers of the Entomologist. In the words of a friend who knew her well, “good, sociable, self-sacrificing and obliging”, she worked to the last, and declined to take the rest needed because, in her own words, “absence would necessitate closing the Museum and cause disappointment to visitors.”
Marked respect was shown to the memory of the kind and accomplished lady by the attendance at the funeral of many scientific or personal friends, besides the members of her family, and her loss is one which will be much felt, both as a friend and as a hearty labourer.
E.A.O.
Torrington House
St. Albans, England
May 9 1888

Thursday 14 June 1888

ACCIDENT
We (Telegraph) regret to learn that Mr. BAKER (of the firm of BAKER & BOWES) met with a painful accident the other day. He was handling a revolver when it went off, injuring his hand so severely that one of his fingers had to be amputated.

A SAD END
One day last week, reports the Colesberg Advertiser, a lady accompanied by her nephew drove up to the accommodation house at the Colesberg Bridge. After giving those who were outspanning an admonition to be careful because one horse was rather vicious, she walked over the rise towards the river and disappeared. After some time it was remarked that she stayed away rather long and after waiting, a big search was made. Her footsteps were traced down to the water’s edge and then away again for a few yards to a spot at which it appeared as though she had knelt down. From there the tracks led straight into the water and no further traces could be discovered. The poor lady’s hat was found near where she had knelt down, probably to ask that she might be forgiven for what she was about to do. Deceased was Mrs. Franz JOUBERT, of Johannesburg. She was a daughter of Mrs. BLIGNAUT, of Middelburg.

Saturday 16 June 1888

DIED at the Drostdy House, Grahamstown, this morning, 16th June, Hugh R.L. ROLLAND, son of the Rev. E.S. ROLLAND  MA, C.C. & R.M., Walvisch Bay.

DIED at Somerset West on Sunday June 10th, Beatrice Isabella Morrison SARGEANT, daughter of the Rev. Wm. SARGEANT, at the age of 12 years and 12 days.

CALLED HOME on May 26th 1888, Agnes Lily Scanlen (Nessie), youngest child and only daughter of Charles and Elizabeth ROBERTS, aged 3 years and 10 months.
God’s finger touched her, and she slept.

DIPHTHERIA
This disease is still painfully prevalent in several parts of the Colony. Among the deaths recorded at Kimberley is that of Mr. A.J. PETERSON, who had resided for 17 years at the Diamond Fields, and was much respected. One of his children was attacked by diphtheria a short time ago, and died. The father attended upon the child, and himself contracted the disease, which again terminated fatally.

Thursday 21 June 1888

MARRIED at Kimberley June 12th 1888, by the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, Thomas Daniel INGRAM to Charlotte, third daughter of the late W.CLARKSON, of Port Elizabeth. No cards.

ELOPEMENT OR SUICIDE?
Referring to the supposed suicide of a lady near Colesberg, the local Advertiser now says: The sad particulars were solemnly chronicled in our columns. But on Saturday the murder was out. The drowned woman never was drowned. She was not such a fool. The search party never noticed those booted footprints leading away from the river some distance along the bank. They were too unlike the tennis shoe footprints of the lady they sought to attract attention. Yet hers they were. Desiring to take a little trip incognita, she had resorted to the ruse of leading people to search for her in the depths of the cold, cold Orange, while she, having donned a masculine attire, made the best of her way to the local railway station. The last we heard of the lady was that she had passed De Aar, and it is whispered that she is accompanied in her flight by a male companion. Thus what seemed like suicide last week now looks like elopement.

Saturday 23 June 1888

DIED on Saturday June 16th at Cradock, Thomas Herbert BRODRICK, lately a Master at St.Andrew’s College, Grahamstown.

SAD ACCIDENT
We regret to have to chronicle one of the saddest gun accidents which have come under our notice. A lad named BEZUIDENHOUT, about twelve or thirteen years old, living at Southey’s Hoek, knowing that his brother and uncle were coming home with their wagons, set out with his gun to meet them. When he came up to them he kissed his brother, and gave the Kafir man his gun to put on the wagon. The man put the gun on some sacks upside down with the muzzle towards them. The uncle pointed this out to the unfortunate lad, who immediately mounted the wagon to put it right. He seized the muzzle and pulled the gun towards him, when the hammer caught in a sack, was lifted a bit, and then coming loose from the sack fell on the nipple, discharging the gun. The poor boy was shot through the lungs, and only had time to run to his brother and throw his arms around his neck before he died.

Tuesday 26 June 1888

DEATH OF A D.R. CLERGYMAN
Rev. J.G.S. DE VILLIERS of Tarkastad died on Wednesday from inflammation of the lungs after a short illness.

Friday 29 June 1888

MARRIED in the Wesleyan Church, Lily Vale, Queenstown, by the Rev. John WILSON of Fort Beaufort, father of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. J. Thompson BA of Queenstown, William Henry WILSON of Askeaton to Emily Annie, daughter of Mr. R. BOYCE of Eureka, Aberdeen.