Tuesday 2 April, 1889

BIRTH,- Sunday, 30th March, at Kent House, Queenstown, Mrs. S. MORUM of a son.

Friday April 5, 1889

BIRTH,- On March 31st, at the Rectory, Queenstown, the wife of the Reverend Alexander GRANT, R.D., of a daughter.

Tuesday April 9, 1889

BIRTH,- At Queenstown on the 6th April, 1889, the wife of Mr. W.J. MARSHALL of a daughter.

THE TENNYSON SETTLEMENT.- The Guardian says: - A number of the settlers have already left, and others are said to be preparing to leave. Sundry brushes have taken place, and matters are on the whole lively. The settlement as a matter of fact is very unsettled.

OBITUARY.
News has reached Queenstown of the death of the Rev. W.B. BOYCE, a cousin of Mrs. DUGMORE. The Rev. W.B. BOYCE was for many years, one of the Secretaries to the Wesleyan Missionary Society in London, and had great influence over the mission work in this country in the early days of the settlement. He retired from the ministry some years ago, and settled in Australia with his son-in-law, Sir W. McARTHUR, living a quiet and holy life. He is now at rest with his Father in Heaven.

TENNYSON SETTLEMENT
The following letter has been sent to us by Mr Arnold WHITE, for publication, and will doubtless be read with interest:-
The Rectory, Queenstown, Cape Colony.
April 9th, 1889.
Arnold H. WHITE, Esq.
Dear Mr. WHITE,- Let me say that it has given me much pleasure to visit the Tennyson Settlement and to hold Church service there. Although the shortness of my stay precluded my visiting all the cottages, I was able on Saturday and Sunday to visit many of them and on Monday morning before my return was present at the Day School for some time when Sister Enid was teaching the children. I was also able to see the work that was going on in various parts of the Settlement.
I trust that you will permit me to add a statement of the impressions made upon me during my visit. I was very glad to see how hopeful everything looked. I can certainly see no reason why the Settlement should not be a permanent institution. The Settlers may probably in the natural course of events divide themselves into two classes, viz., permanent and temporary. As a depot for receiving intending Colonists of the agricultural labour class and for making these accustomed to Colonial methods of farming, &c., it appears to me to be likely to be lastingly valuable. No doubt there will be always some who will prefer to make it their home, while others will be inclined to subsequently accept offers of work elsewhere and so he gradually absorbed into the ordinary Colonial population. The system adopted on the Settlement strikes me as a wise one. It affords all the necessary help at starting and it does this without weakening the manliness and self-reliance of the Settler. It is no kindness to any one to develop any kind of pauper institutions in this country. I am sure that no one who is willing to work can, with ordinary seasons, fail to do well: all fare far better than those of a similar class in England. Any person acquainted with the ordinary life in an English country labored who will take the trouble to compare the lot of such an one in England with that of one on the Tennyson Settlement (I have seen both) must, if he speaks impartially and without bias, acknowledge that in the latter position he is infinitely better off, physically, morally and socially.
When waiting for the train at Sterkstroom I came across two of the Settlers who were there on business and whom I had consequently missed at the Settlement. In a friendly chat we compared the lot out here with the lot at 'at home' and striking a balance found the former had a large proportion in its favour. To say nothing of themselves (and there is a great deal to be said) the thought of the prospects of their children in a country like this is a much more cheering one than the greatest optimist can picture for a country labourer's family in the old country.
It spoke well that the Church Services were well attended. A fair proportion remained to receive Holy Communion. The people were attentive and the singing was (what is generally called) "hearty." I took the first class in the Sunday School and found that the children were being carefully taught. Indeed Sister Enid trains the children well and had succeeded, I could see, in many instances in details which test a teacher's powers. I may add that I noticed that the little ones all looked healthy and happy: indeed in that fine air they could scarcely help looking so. That bread has to be earned here as well as elsewhere and that honest brave endurance is needed are points of which the
settlers were I find fully informed in England. Some difficulties had to be solved as the scheme developed, but that thousands of poor hard-working men and women in England would gladly avail themselves of the advantages of such Settlements could they have the opportunity it would be simple folly to question. Of course one must suppose that here and there out of every "so many" settlers some will be failures. An average of this kind there is in every effort. Not only will they be ungrateful and given to comparing their improved lot not (as they ought to do) with that which they have left in England, but with that of well-to-do farmers around who have either inherited their land or purchased it after years of hard work of various kinds, but they will expect the crops to grow without the labour of ploughing, and will regard each large or small difference from English life as a hardship. In short there will always be the magnifying of small inconveniences and the manufacturing of grievances, but it was a pleasure to me that personally I came across no one who whined in any way and to find that all the real workers seemed cheerful and happy.
I believe it would be a good thing for the country if you could establish a dozen such settlements. Beyond all doubt it would be a good thing for the settlers. I trust that you will live not only to continue what I thing a great and self-denying word, but that you will see such results as will convince all who have at heart the true welfare of the poor workers of England that they cannot do better than aid in the multiplication of such methods of benefitting English agricultural laborers and of providing for their families. I do not know if the caution be needed: pardon me if it is not: but let me decidedly say that I should consider it a crime for any to endeavor to obtain the advantages of these Settlements for persons whose antecedents emphatically mark them as totally unfit for them. The temptation to get rid of the drones and re'er-do-weels of a parish by testimonials coloured so as to suppress half the truth, if not to suggest much that is absolutely untrue, is one that should be most firmly resisted.
However I shall probably appear to be taking liberties if I lengthen this letter. I shall be most glad to do anything in my power to assist you in anything that lies within my province as a Clergyman. I very sincerely sympathise with you in the desire which you have expressed to me that all that can be done to raise the moral and spiritual life of the settlers should be done. You know that I have already to organize Church-work over an area a hundred miles long by as many broad, but you can depend upon me, at any rate, to do "what I can" in order to assist you in this way.
I am, dear Mr. WHITE,
Yours faithfully,
Alexander GRANT,
Rural Dean.

Tuesday April 16, 1889

BIRTH,- At Queenstown on the 10th April, 1889, the wife of Mr. William FRASER of a son.

Friday April 19, 1889

OBITUARY.- We regret to hear of the death at Johannesburg of Mr. GILSTAIN, of the firm of GILSTAIN and ELLIOT of Cathcart, and Chairman of the Cathcart Municipality. Mr. GILSTAIN went to the Randt about a month ago on a visit. While there he was attacked by brain fever and dysentery, terminating fatally. Mr. GILSTAIN was still a young man, full of vigour and energetic in business, with many a promising year before him. Fully it may be said "In the midst of life we are in death." We tender our condolence and sympathy to the bereaved ones in their sad loss.

OBITUARY.
The sad news reached Queenstown by telegram of the death of Miss Florence PARKER at Pilgrim's Rest, Transvaal, on Monday last. Miss PARKER was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. John H. PARKER, and was born in this town where she resided up to within a few month ago, when she went on a visit to her brother, Mr. J.H. PARKER, of Leydenburg. She was of a lively disposition and in good health up to this time. The telegraphic news is scant, but from it we gather that about a month ago Miss PARKER had a fall while mounting a horse, breaking her arm, but had no sooner recovered from this than she was attacked with low fever, which weakened the heart, and to this complication of disease the poor young lady succumbed. We tender our sympathy to the bereaved family.

Tuesday April 23, 1889

BIRTH,- At Alloway Lodge, on the 7th Inst., the wife of J.A. McFARLANE of a son.

DIED,- At Pilgrim's Rest, Transvall, on 15th April, 1889, Florence May, youngest daughter of John H. and Elizabeth PARKER.
DIED,- At Roydon on April 17th George FINCHAM, aged 75 years and 9 months.

The late Geo. FINCHAM Sr.
...Mr. FINCHAM arrived at the Cape in the year 1832 and found his first employment in the Colony, in the warehouse of Messrs. James HOWSE & Co., of Grahamstown. In the service of this firm he remained several years, and during this period he was engaged in several trading or "smousing" expeditions on the outskirts of the Colony. When the war with HINTZA broke out in 1835 he was sent by his employers to look after their interests in the district of Baviaan's River, and was able to give such a good account of his stewardship that on his return he found his reward in that best of all possessions – a good wife, marrying the daughter of Mr ALDRICH the manager of the business in which he was engaged. Mr DUGMORE paid the highest tribute to the virtues of this estimable lady, who died in 1860, after having become the mother of a large family, ten of whom still survive, four sons and six daughters, three of the daughters having become the wives of Ministers of religion.
After his marriage Mr. FINCHAM settled on a farm in Baviaan's River where he remained until 'eaten up' in the great Native Rebellion of 1850. During this war he was one of a little company of valiant settlers who went into laager at Glen Lyndon and bade defiance to the savage hordes by whom they were surrounded for several weeks, until the country was cleared of the invaders by the Colonial forces. During this eventful period he had many perilous adventures and hair breadth escapes, but a clear head and never failing fortitude and courage carried him through repeated risks of his life in the face of the enemy. When the Queenstown district was brought within the boundaries of the Colony Mr. FINCHAM was one of those who received a free grant of a farm in it as a recognition of his military services. To this farm, which he named ROYDON, in commemoration of the home of his youth across the sea, he removed in 1853, and there the rest of his days were spent in peaceful industry and patient continuance in well doing, whilst his large family grew up to manhood and womanhood, and spread abroad to fill honourable positions of usefulness in the land. Mr. FINCHAM for many years acted as Field Cornet for his district...

Friday April 26, 1889

Two deaths from diphtheria are reported in the Somerset East Budget. Our contemporary says:- In our last issue we said that we were not aware of any case of this disease either in town or district. Since then we regret to have to record in our Dutch issue the death of two sons of Mr. T.E. CLASEN, of Stilfontein, in this district, at the age of 2½and 4½years.

A Mrs. STYLES, of Humansdorp, has presented her husband with four daughters at a birth; they all died soon after. The lady is not nineteen years of age. A contemporary adds what a prospect there is before Mr. STYLES.

Tuesday April 30, 1889

MARRIED on the 25th of April at the Church of S. Michael and All Angels by the Rev. A. GRANT, R.D., John CARLISLE, son of the late Frederick CARLISLE, Esq., of Grahamstown, to Annette (Annie) only daughter of Edward BELL, Esq., of Queenstown.
MARRIED.- On Wednesday, April 24th, at the U.P. and Congregational Church, by the Rev. J.P. RITCHIE, William Andrew BERRY, to Jessie, eldest daughter of Lawrence SCOTT Esq., of Queen's Town.

DIED, at Queenstown, Monday 22nd April, 1889, Margaret Marie, infant daughter of George BERTRAM, aged ten months.

FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.- While Mr. and Mrs. MASON were driving their nephews (two sons of Mr. Henry BIRD of Heilbroon, O.F.S.,) down the Park at the back of the Pietermaritzburg College, a bolt that secured one of the shafts to the axle of the carriage slipped out. The loosened shaft struck the horse, and the animal bolted. Mr. MASON at once endeavoured to pull him up, but had no control. Ultimately it dashed in between the trees, and the carriage coming into collision with a tree, all the occupants except the youngest lad were thrown out. Mrs. MASON and the eldest lad were so severely injured, it was thought inadvisable to remove them, except under medical direction. Dr. ALLEN was soon on the scene, and under his direction they were subsequently removed to the house. Mrs. MASON had one arm broken and also received a wound in the eye. The boy Henry, 14 years of age received such serious injuries as to terminate fatally.

DEATH of Mr Advocate FRAMES.- We regret very much to record the death of Mr. Advocate FRAMES which took place yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, at his residence, Swellendam House, Dutoitspan Road. Mr. FRAMES had been somewhat seriously indisposed for the past eight or then days, - a severe cold being followed by and attack of fever, and finally, congestion of the lungs. It was believed by his friends, however, that excellent constitution would battle successfully against the inroads of disease. But such, it is melancholy to relate, has not been the case, and many of our readers to-day mourn the loss of a good and true man, loyal in friendship, kind and genial in all his
relationships of life, and so gifted intellectually that high hopes were entertained as to his success in life. An exceptionally sad feature of this painful affiiction is the fact that his marriage days was to be next Wednesday, and the banns already have been twice made public in Saint Cyprian's. With the relatives and friends of the deceased we desire most sincerely to sympathise. D.F. Advertiser.

SAD OCCURRENCE.- It is with deep regret we record to-day a sad affliction which has befell Mr. and Mrs. D. MUNRO, of Napier Park, near Alice. It appears that on Tuesday afternoon last, Annie Agnes, aged about 21 months, the youngest child of Mr MUNRO, was playing near the house, the mother being close by. Mrs. MUNRO went into the house to get a drink for the child. She soon discovered that the child had fell into a large tank – which was partly open. Upon seeing the child in the water Mrs. MUNRO jumped in There was about 3 or feet of water in the tank. A European came to the rescue and got both mother and child out; but the child was discovered to be either dead or dying! Dr. NANGLE was sent for, but the child was beyond medical treatment. – Alice Times.

OBITUARY.- We regret to have to announce the receipt of a telegram in town, conveying the sad intelligence of the death at Johannesburg of Mrs. A.W. SOLE, who proceeded there two or three months ago to join her husband. We tender our sincerest sympathy and condolence to the bereaved ones in their irreparable loss.

Friday May 3, 1889

DIED,- At Whittlesea, on Wednesday the 24th April, Sarah Ann, beloved wife of Thomas Jas. ARNOLD, of Monsra (Hackney) leaving a sorrowing husband and large circle of friends to mourn her loss.

BIRTH at Queenstown on April 28th the wife of Edward LOGAN of twins – boy and girl.

Friday May 10, 1889

BIRTH,- At Queenstown on the 7th May, the wife of Mr. Allison Q. TYSON of a daughter.

Tuesday May 11, 1889

DIED,- At (Doornfontein) Johannesburg, Z.A.R., on the 29th April, 1889, Harriet Ann (born PAINTER) beloved wife of Alfred W. SOLE. Friends will please accept this notice.

Friday May 17, 1889

DIED,- At Queenstown, on Monday, May 13th, Ann (born HULLEY) wife of James FLANEGAN, aged 67 years. Other papers please copy.

Friday May 24, 1889

BIRTH,- At Queenstown, on the 21st inst., the wife of Henry J. PHILIP, of a Son.

Tuesday June 4, 1889

DIED,- At Queenstown, on the 1st June, 1889, Robert Johnson, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. JAMIESON, aged 15 months and 11 days.

AWFUL TRAGEDY AT PRETORIA.- A Telegram to the Friend of the Free State, dated 19th ult. Says. "Awful tragedy took place this morning, JONKER, the editor and proprietor of the Volksstem shot his wife and himself during the night. A little child five months old was lying between the parents. Pecuniary difficulties is alleged to be the cause of the sad act." Mr JONKER was at one time an inhabitant of this town, and will be remembered by many when he was a clerk to Mr BRUMOND,
the Attorney. Mrs JONKER was, we believe, a niece of Dr. SCHUMMELKETEL, of Cronstadt. There is naturally much sympathy expressed for the surviving relatives.

Friday June 7, 1889

MARRIED,- On June 4th, at St. John's Church, East London, by the Rev. W.E. HUNTER, assisted by the Rev. A. GRANT, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Queenstown, Richard Walter WRIGHT, eldest son of the late James WRIGHT, Esq., R.E., to Dora Mary (Dolly), daughter of William DRENNAN, Esq., C.E., Manor House, East London.

The Late Mr. E.T. STUBBS.- The E.L. Dispatch says:- We regret to announce the death of Mr. E.T. STUBBS, of Cambridge, who died at his residence on Monday evening last. Mr. STUBBS left Queenstown, where he was widely known and respected as the host of the Royal Hotel, some few years ago, and settled in Cambridge, where he has since lived a very quiet life. When in Queenstown Mr. STUBBS took a considerable share in municipal and politicall ive, and was noted for the independence of his spirit. He was always generous and hospitable, and during his lengthy career in South Africa he had troops of friends. The bereaved family will have the sympathy of a very large circle.

Friday June 14, 1889

Birth – At Queenstown on the 9th June, the wife of J. HEARNS of a daughter.

Friday June 21, 1889

BIRTH- At Queenstown on the 13th June, 1889, the wife of C.W. SMITH, Esq., of Johannesburg of a daughter.

GOLDEN WEDDING.- Mr. and Mrs. Samuel JACKSON of Essex, in this division celebrated their Golden Wedding on Sunday last. It happened to be the same day of the week as well as the same day of the month as in the year 50 years ago, when Mr and Mrs JACKSON plighted their troth at Somerset East. In those days they only had occasional services – no English clergyman of any denomination being resident there – consequently Sunday was perforce their wedding day. We tender our hearty
congratulations to Mr and Mrs JACKSTON, and trust that they may be long spared, and continue to tread the journey of life together.

Tuesday June 25, 1889

MARRIED.- On June 19th, at Wesley Church, Queenstown, by the Rev. J.E. PARSONSON, Wilfred Sadler, third son of J.A. MORGAN, Esq., to Hannah Matilda, second daughter of David DICK, Esq., of Baileyton, late of Forfar, Scotland. – No cards.

DIED.- At the residence of her niece (Mrs. J. SUTHERLAND) on the 20th June, 1889, Mary NEALE, aged 88 years and 9 months.

Friday June 28, 1889

OBITUARY.- Mrs PATCHING, wife of the Superintendent of the Frontier Hospital, died on Wednesday last after great suffering, leaving a husband and three young children to mourn her loss. The fuueral took place on Thursday afternoon, the remains being interred in the Church of England Cemetery. We tender our sympathy and condolence to the bereaved ones in their sad affliction.