Tuesday October 17, 1865

OBITUARY. – Captain Chas. ROSS, lately of Cape Corps, formerly in the British Service, when he was through nearly all the PeninsulaWar, and subsequently in the Brazillian service as a General of Division. While in South America he underwent many and severe sufferings after being taken prisoner, on one occasion being stripped naked and chained to the floor, where he remained for several months. The deceased officer was noted for his bravery, particularly at Montebello, and had received many medals, together with the clasps for the Peninsula campaign. He departed this life on Friday morning last, at the residence of his son Henry, in this district, from whence he was conveyed to Queenstown, and interred in the burial ground of the Episcopalian Church this morning, precededed by the Volunteers as a firing party, and followed by the officials of the district, many of the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a member, andby most of the inhabitants of the town. The Amateur Band headed the cortege playing the “Dead March in Saul.”

Tuesday October 24, 1865

BIRTH at Queen’s Town, on the 16th October, 1865, Mrs. L. WRIGHT of a Son.

Tuesday, November 14, 1865

NEWS FROM OTHER TOWNS

UITENHAGE. DEATH.- Dr. McMASTER, of Uitenhage, died, we are informed, on Saturday last, at that town. Dr.McMASTER was an old colonist, and well known throughout the Eastern Province.

BREDASDORP. AN ELOPEMENT.- This usual quiet village has during the past week been in a state of great excitement by the sudden disappearance of a young girl about seventeen, the daughter of Mr. SOMERS, who at present has charge of the windmill; nor was the wonder quieted although search had been made in all directions until Sunday last, when a person from Swellendam brought the runaway young lady in his cart. It appears, in passing the pont at Breede River, the pont-man informed him that a short time previous this young lady and a coloured man had passed over, and from information received he was induced to invite the damsel into his house; and upon inquiry it came out that she had left Bredasdorp on foot with the coloured man the Monday before; and she was fully resolved to live with him as his wife, although he was already married, his wife still living and with two children. It appears this girl had been frequently sent to the fields to milk accompanied by this man, and hence the intimacy, and also has had to get up all hours of the night to bake.

Tuesday December 12, 1865

NEWS FROM OTHER TOWNS

PAARL. I am sorry to have another murder to report, and the most barbarous since the frightful assassination of the poor railway huckster a tLady’s Grey Bridge, the remembrance of which is still green in this place. It seems that last evening spots of blood were noticed near one part of the road which leads up from Mr. Jonas ROOS’cottage on the other side of Lady Grey’s Bridge, to Mr. WOLVAART’s place, under the mountain. Suspicion being thus aroused, investigation followed, and then it was only too apparent that a most brutal murder had been perpetrated there. Continuing on the line of blood, steps were traced to where the murderous attack must have commenced, at about 19 paces from this cross-coutnry road, and about 1 and a quarter miles from Lady Grey’s Bridge. Furthest from the road, a bundle of thin wood was found, close to it a pool of blood, then another, and another, so proving that a severe struggle had taken place between the assassin and his victim before he finally destroyed her. Her neck was laid open, a deep hole was cut into it, at the side of the bone, leaving it bare to the touch of the knife; a drawn cut into her flesh and a deep stab were made under the shoulder blade, and there were scratches upon her thighs, as well as other evidences that the intent of the murder had been foul and savage in the extreme.The body has been recognised as that of Saartje VORSLAG, a woman about 40 years of age, and long employed as a wood carrier. –(AAdvertiser and Mail.)

Tuesday December 26, 1865