Tuesday 4 June 1889

BIRTH at 3 Avenue Terrace, Capetown, on the 31st May, the wife of Septimus EDKINS of a daughter.

Mr. NILAND, Scab Inspector, Seymour, summoned the local schoolmaster for having caned his son, NILAND jun, for the offence of having copied from another pupil’s slate, he having assured the schoolmaster that he had not copied. It seems the stroke of the cane lit upon the ball of the thumb, causing, as perhaps some of our readers from experience gained in early days be aware, considerable pain. The Bench dismissed the case, and reproved the parent. We are no great advocates for caning, but think its use under the circumstances was a benevolent and expedient act, for which Mr. NILAND might well be thankful to the teacher.

At Kingwilliamstown John SIEBOLD, aged 16, for disgraceful conduct at a Salvation Army meeting, was sentenced to £3 fine or 14 days’ imprisonment, part of which on spare diet, the Magistrate remarking that he had shown himself to be a blackguard, and should be punished as severely as possible. This case will doubtless be a lesson to a troublesome class of silly lads both at Kingwilliamstown and other places which could be named, who take a pleasure in behaving rudely at public meetings. If those who have charge of such meetings only do their duty by appealing to the Magistrate, the nuisance will speedily be stopped.

Thursday 6 June 1889

DEATH OF MR.W.W. HORTON
We deeply regret to hear of the decease of Mr. HORTON, which took place at his residence, Port Alfred West, yesterday, after a lingering and painful illness. Deceased was well known and highly respected, not only in Port Alfred, where his loss will be greatly felt, but also in this City. Several friends left yesterday by train to attend the funeral, which takes place today.

DEATH OF MISS HALL
The E.P. herald says: The many friends of this lady will regret to hear that she has died in England, whither she went to recruit her strength, which had been severely taxed by her untiring labours in the cause of education. The regret expressed by our contemporary will be fully shared by a very wide circle in this Colony. Miss HALL was a very accomplished lady and a highly successful teacher, and her loss to this Colony is very great. Ed. Journal.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS
A warm discussion took place in the Council last night, during the examination of the proposed new Divisional Council Bill. The subject was “Women’s Rights”. Some Councillors were of opinion that women who owned property in their own right should be entitled to vote at elections just as members of the sterner sex do. The idea met with great opposition, one Councillor going so far as to adduce scriptural authority against allowing women undue publicity, while another drew a moving picture of a woman mopping a husband about the floor of the house because he voted wrong. The suggestion to recommend female voting to Government was thrown out by a large majority.

Tuesday 11 June 1889

BIRTH at Oatlands, Grahamstown, on the 7th inst, the wife of Mr. D. KNIGHT of a daughter.

DEATH OF MR. J.B.AUSTEN
Many (says the D.F. Advertiser) on the Diamond Fields and throughout the Colony will regret very much to learn that Mr. J.B. AUSTEN, ex-Marketmaster of Beaconsfield, passed away at Malmesbury recently after a long and painful illness. Mr. AUSTEN was a truly representative colonist, and in years past had on more than one occasion shown his loyalty to the Government of the country by taking the field at great sacrifice to his material interests.

Saturday 15 June 1889

PASSED AWAY on the 10th June at Ladybrand, Orange Free State, Sydney Chalmers, youngest child of Hariette and the late William WENTWORTH, aged 6 months.

Intestate Estate of the late Colin REID of Kimberley
The undersigned having been appointed Executor Dative, Notice is hereby given that all Claims against the said Estate must be sent in to him on or before the 8th day of August next.
T. Barry VAN DER RIET
Attorney-at-Law
Grahamstown, 13th June 1889

WEDDING AT KINGWILLIAMSTOWN
Last Tuesday Trinity Church was [literally] crowded (says the Mercury) with a fashionable congregation to witness the marriage of Mr. Arnold MULLER, of Cradock, to Miss CHALMERS, daughter of our respected Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Mr. W.B. CHALMERS. The handsome dresses worn by the bride and her companions were most of them made at the establishment of Messrs. MUIRHEAD & GOWIE, Grahamstown.

Tuesday 18 June 1889

MARRIED: LENNARD-DUGMORE.
At Bowden Church on June 12th, by the Reverend J. Smith Spencer, President of the Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa, assisted by the Reverend W. Woodman Treleaven, the Reverend Arthur J. LENNARD, of Seymour, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Wm. DUGMORE.

DIED at Oatlands, Grahamstown on the 16th inst, aged 9 days, the infant daughter of Emily and Daniel KNIGHT.

Thursday 20 June 1889

BRUTAL MURDER
The Richmond Era has received information re the murder of Mr. F.J. SANDILANDS, who had visited Cathcart to take leave of his friends, intending to leave for Johannesburg the following day. On returning to his farm, it is surmised he was met by a Kafir who had been in his employ, and the two appear to have walked some distance in company. Mr. SANDILANDS not arriving home when expected, search was made, and he was found on the road, insensible from the effects of a brutal attack, the wounds suggesting a knobkerrie as the weapon used by the murderer. The unfortunate gentleman never recovered consciousness after being found.

Tuesday 25 June 1889

DIED at Healdtown on 20th June, William CADWALLADER, aged 80 years.

FOUND DEAD
This morning the startling news ran through the city that Mr. S.B. SHAW, the esteemed Principal of Shaw’s School, Salem, had died suddenly during the night. The facts were soon forthcoming and too sadly confirmed the report. It appears that Mr. SHAW, who was on his way to Capetown to spend the holidays, was stopping at the Masonic Hotel, and came in a little before six in the evening, intending to start for Capetown by the 10 o’clock pm train. When the hotel trap was ready to start for the station, an attendant went to his room (No.10) to fetch down the luggage. He came down and reported that he was unable to make Mr. SHAW hear him. Upon entering his room, the unfortunate gentleman was found to be lying on his back on the bed, in a perfectly natural position, but lifeless. He was completely dressed. The presumption is that while waiting for the time to start he must have been seized either with heart disease or an apoplectic fit, and passed away in a very short time. Deceased, who had attained the age of 61 years, was one of the best schoolmasters in the country, and his record in the different Government examinations for many years past sufficiently attest the fact. Scores of young men and others no longer very young are indebted to him for a sound and practical education. Mr. SHAW was the younger brother of the Rev. B.J. SHAW of this town, and son of the late Rev. Barnabas SHAW, well known for many years as an earnest and successful missionary to Namaqualand and the Western Province. Wherever the late Mr. S.B. SHAWS’s name has reached, heartfelt sympathy will be felt for the widow and orphans thus suddenly deprived of husband and father.

FATAL ACCIDENTS
Two shocking mining fatalities are reported from Johannesburg. On Friday evening Wm. BOGIS, a European hailing from Kimberley, was engaged sinking a shaft on the property of the Great Britain Company at Roodepoort. Having laid ten dynamite charges at the bottom, BOGIS signalled to the black boys working the [winch] to hoist. Before he reached the surface one charge went off, and a lump of rock struck BOGIS on the head, knocking him out of the bucket. Immediately afterwards the other [...] shots fired, and BOGIS was blown to atoms. The second fatality occurred at the Oakley Gold Mine at Rietvlei. A shaft was being sunk by a gang of natives, and when the loaded skip was being hoisted the bucket caught the side, and the contents felon three boys working at the bottom. Two were killed outright and the third was seriously injured.

Thursday 27 June 1889

ENTERED INTO REST
Early this morning (June 26th 1889) Reginald Gordon, fourth son of Reginald Heber and Lydia S. RICHMOND, aged 2 years and 9 months.