DOMESTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

10 February 1906

BIRTHS

CRAWFORD—On the 6th inst., at Marchmont, Rosebank, the wife of Lawrence Crawford, a daughter.

EADY—On the 31st ult., at 14, Carlton Hill, N.W., the wife of T. A. C. Eady, a son.

FORSYTH—On the 4th inst., at Newcastle, Natal, the wife of Richard P. Forsyth, a son.

GOLDMAN—On the 15th January, at 14, Bishop Road, Observatory C.C., the wife of E. V. Goldman, a daughter. Both well when mail left.

GRAY—On the 6th inst., Mrs. Philip Gray, Bromley, Kent, a daughter.

HUTCHINGS—On the 7th inst., at Torquay, the wife of Ernest Hutchings, Solicitor (nee L. Tearle), a daughter.

KENNINGTON—On the 3rd inst., at Musselburgh, the wife of James Kennington, a daughter.

LEASK—On January 30, at Cape Town, the wife of John McAllister Leask (Standard Bank), a daughter.

RIDOUT—On the 5th inst., at Middelburg, the wife of Major D. H. Ridout, Royal Engineers, a son.

RUFFER—On the 8th inst., at Grove Park, the wife of A. A. Ruffer, a son.

STOPFORD—On the 1st inst., at Johannesburg, the Hon. Mrs. Stopford, a daughter.

MARRIAGES

ARCHBOLD—GRIFFITH—On the 7th inst., at St. Paul's, Rondebosch, Aubone McKinlay, youngest son of the late Ralph Archbold, Libiola, Shortlands, to Ellen Margaret Ethel (Jill), elder daughter of the Rev. G. O. F. Griffith, Vicar of St. Barnabas, Beckenham.

ATKINSON—SYMINGTON—On January 31, at the Presbyterian Church, Nice, by the Rev. A. F. Buscarlet, B.A., of Lausanne, assisted by the Rev. Hugh Fitzpatrick, M.A., of Keith, and the Rev. A. D. Sloan, M.A., B.C., C. E. Atkinson, J.P. for Kent, Algoa Lodge, Beckenham, and Chatsworth Gardens, Eastbourne, to Beatrice, daughter of Walter Symington, Crowhill, Lanarkshire, and Villa Inge, Nice, France.

BOWEN—KING—On January 29, at Kroonstad, Otway Percival Bowen, second son of Percival Bowen, St. Milboro', Shropshire, and Mrs. Bowen, Caterham, to Dorothy Joan King, third daughter of Albert King, Burnham.

BUCHANAN—LOVATT—On December 30, at Avoca, John, second son of the late John Buchanan, Calibae, Killearn, Stirlingshire, to Florence Lydia, youngest daughter of William Lovatt, Leyton, Avoca.

GILKISON—HARCOURT VERNON—On the 7th inst., at St. Helen's Church, Grove, Retford, Captain Dugald Stewart Gilkison, Scottish Rifles, to Janet Kate, eldest daughter of the Rev. A. Harcourt Vernon, of Keble, Clocolan, O.R.C.

HOSACK—ROGERS—On the 3rd inst., at Bovey Court, Vereeniging, Kenneth Murray Hosack, of Vereeniging, to Frances Emilie, younger daughter of A. H. Rogers, late of Birmingham.

JOHNSON—STEWART—On January 2, at the Wesleyan Church, Bloemfontein, Edward Fred Johnson, to Anne Sutherland, eldest daughter of Mr. Walter Stewart, Glasgow.

SMITH—SUTHERLAND—On the 10th ult., at the Presbyterian Church, Port Elizabeth, George Washington Smith, M.D., Alicedale, to Christina, eldest daughter of Mr. Donald Sutherland, Edinburgh.

DEATHS

BISHOP—On February 3, at Pietersburg, suddenly, Eva, second daughter of the late E. W. Bishop, of Mill Hill.

HABERSHON—On the 2nd inst., quite suddenly, at the Star Life Office, Moorgate Street, E.C., Edward Arnold Habershon, of Harpenden, Herts, second son of Edward William Habershon, of Weston-super-Mare, aged 38.

KIRBY—On New Year's Day, drowned in Durban Bay, Basil Cyprian Kirby, son of the late Rev. L. A. Kirby, in his 23rd year.

KIRKMAN—On October 4, at Donyo Sabuk, Nairobi, B.E. Africa, of enteritis, Edward Stephen Kirkman, late of the Imperial Light Horse and S.A. Constabulary.

MACKAY—On January 31, at Glasgow, D. Douglas MacKay, aged 64.

MCNICOL—At Rutherglen, David McNicol, beloved husband of Janet Comrie.

MURRAY—On the 24th ult. (of blackwater fever), at Camp, on the Limpopo River, John M. Murray.

MUZZELL—On the 5th inst. at Croydon, after a brief illness, Elizabeth, widow of the late Edward Muzzell, of Brighton, in her 81st year.

SINCLAIR—On January 12, at Johannesburg, Peter Sinclair, National Bank of South Africa, Germiston, and late of King's Cross, Arran, aged 31.

YOUNG—On the 14th ult., at Norwood, near Johannesburg, suddenly, in his 53rd year, Arthur, third son of the late Arthur Young, of Highbury, N.

WALTON—On January 7, at Johannesburg, Joseph Walton, of Wolverhampton.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

Mr. Leo Weinthal informs us that he holds the copyright of the photograph of Advocate Smuts, reproduced in our last issue.

Mr. Hall, Manager of Messrs. Arthur May and Co.'s flour mill at Durban, committed suicide recently by shooting himself in the head with a revolver.

THE EMIGRATION OF WOMEN

SOUTH AFRICAN ARRANGEMENTS

While the British Emigration Office is discouraging rather than encouraging emigration, it is interesting to note that the British Women's Emigration Association is able to adopt a more hopeful tone. Its Transvaal Women's Immigration Department announces that young women of British birth, good character, good health, and experience in domestic service, can be sent in parties, every two or three months, under the care of a matron, to Johannesburg, where situations in the Transvaal are provided for them. The Transvaal Government undertakes all expenses from London to Johannesburg, excepting £12, and even this sum is advanced to every accepted applicant, and has only to be repaid in monthly instalments. Wages for cook-generals, nurse-housemaids, house-parlourmaids, &c., commence at £48 a year all found, of which £1 per month has to be repaid to the Transvaal Government during the first year of service. The next party will sail on Saturday next, the 17th inst., with the Transvaal matron.

Residents in the Orange River Colony can now obtain, through the local magistrates, advanced and reduced passages for persons from England; the residents undertake to repay the money by twelve equal monthly instalments. The fares from Southampton to Bloemfontein (which include second-class train from Cape Town) are: Third class open berths (men only), £9 19s. 3d., and closed cabins £10 16s. 3d., second-class about £23 8s., and children under eleven years £15 11s., and first-class £35 7s. 9d., and so to other plans in proportion; twice the ordinary amount of baggage will be carried free on the South African Railways. Persons in whose favour these passages are granted
will be notified as to the steamer, date of sailing, &c., by the Colonial Office Dowing Street, S.W.

The South African Colonisation Society in Natal, on application to the Secretary, European Immigration Department, will be provided with assisted passages (at £5 5s. per head) for suitable British women not over forty years of age, such as domestic servants, governesses, and such like,
nominated by the Society, provided that none of the nominees have lived in any part of South Africa previously. The five guineas to be repaid in monthly instalments to the local Hon. Treasurer by each immigrant, who binds herself to come under the control of the Society for twelve months from the
date of her arrival. Should the first situation prove unsuitable the Society binds itself to find another or lodge her at the Society's Hotel so that the immigrant may be cared for during the twelve months. By paying £12 10s. on this (illegible) to the Agent-General, a second-class passage may be secured
by any governess, teacher, or mothers-help proceeding to Natal under this scheme.