Tuesday 4 January 1870

Mr. FINN, who was sentenced at the last Graham’s Town criminal sessions to four months’ imprisonment, on a charge of culpable and fraudulent insolvency, was on Wednesday last liberated from prison, after about two months’ detention – a memorial, which had been numerously signed, having been forwarded to His Excellency the Governor, and favourably received.

SUICIDE
A coloured woman named Sarah COLLIER, one of the town unfortunates, resolutely drowned herself in a water hole near the Hamilton Reservoir on Sunday morning. Two of her companions were with her, and twice she was dragged out by them. The third time, after again rushing into the water, she succeeded in destroying herself. She is stated to have been under the effect of delirium tremens. Her body was removed to the prison hospital, and buried next morning by a party of town prisoners. -Anglo African.

Friday 14 January 1870

TUITION
No. 1 Cora Terrace
Mrs. SHERMAN’s Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies will re-open after the Christmas Recess on Thursday 20th January 1870.
Classes formed for Advanced Pupils in French and Singing.

Tuesday 18 January 1870

EDUCATION
The Hill, Port Elizabeth
Principal: Mrs. PHILLIPSON
Assisted by French, German and English Teachers
The highest references given
The school will re-open on the 24th inst.
The Hill, Jan 18th 1870.

GRAAFF-REINET
Alexander FOSTER
Attorney-at-Law
Notary Public and Sworn Translator

Walter Nairne WHITE, charged with being concerned in the fraud and embezzlement on the Port Elizabeth Bank, was brought before the Resident Magistrate on Friday for further examination, and fully committed to take his trial at the next sitting of the Circuit Court. His Worship intimated that bail would be accepted, the prisoner in £1,500 and two sureties of £750 each.

Friday 21 January 1870

TEACHERS WANTED
Applications are invited for the offices of teacher of the boys and girls’ classes at the Richmond Undenominational School until the 1st March next. The salary of the teacher of the boys’ school will be £200 per annum: and that of the girls’ teacher, £120.

STEPHEN AND EDWIN HART
Inquiry having been made for Stephen HART and Edwin HART, to whom some money has been bequeathed by their late uncle, Edward HART, it is requested that they or their families, or any person who can give information respecting them up to the present time, will communicate with the Colonial Office without delay. Stephen HART and Edwin HART came to Cape Town from the County of Sussex, in Egland, as farm labourers, between the years 1844 and 1850, and are believed to have gone subsequently to the Eastern Province or Natal.

Tuesday 25 January 1870

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 22nd January 1870, Mrs. P. BARNETT of a daughter.

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on Sunday 23rd inst, Mrs. Mark MOSS of a son.

FATAL ACCIDENT
As Mr. BOWKER’s wagons were proceeding to the Bay on Wednesday evening last, loaded with wool, one of the drivers, a steady, sober man, who had lived in Mr. BOWKER’s service from his youth, accidentally fell from the wagon, in the act of getting up, and was crushed to death, the wheels having passed over his back. – Somerset Courant.

It is with very great regret we (Argus) have to announce the death of Thomas TENNANT Esq., which took place on Sunday last. The deceased was one of the most charitable gentlemen in the colony, his hand being ever open to the needy.

INSOLVENCY
Jan 17, Cornelia Jacoba DE VILLIERS, of Schietfontein, district of Victoria West, married without community of property to Hugo Hendrik BIERMAN, compulsory order of sequestration, granted provisionally; assets and liabilities unknown.

A PATRIARCH
One of the oldest inhabitants of the Knysna district died last week – Mr. H. VAN HUYSTEEN, aged 82. He was a retired field-cornet. He has left a large number of descendants, amongst whom are sixty grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren.

CAUTION TO BIGAMISTS
A man named HOLM was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour, on Tuesday last, at the Cape Town criminal sessions, for having committed the crime of bigamy.

SUDDEN DEATH
On Sunday last Mr. Johan Coenraad WAHL expired very suddenly at his residence in Castle-street. He had reached the ripe old age of seventy-four, and was at twelve o’clock, when the servant took him up his dinner, perfectly hale and hearty. At four o’clock the servant went to him with a cup of coffee, and she found him lying on the floor with his head resting on his hand. Medical assistance was at once sent for, and Drs. BÖSENBERG and FLECK were soon in attendance. They expressed their opinion that Mr. WAHL had been dead for two hours. – Standard and Mail.

Tuesday 1 February 1870

BIRTH at Knysna on the 23rd January, the wife of Mr. William LLOYD of a son.

DIED on the 29th January, Frances Sarah, daughter of Joseph Robberds HOLLAND, aged 18 months.

Friday 4 February 1870

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth this morning, Feb 1 1870, the wife of M.M. TAIT Esq. of a son.

FATAL ASSAULT
A woman named MURPHY is in custody in Cape Town, on a charge of assaulting her daughter, a young married woman, and causing her death. The mother and daughter had high words on Saturday week, when the former attacked the latter with a broom-stick, and gave her thrusts with the sharp point of the same in the abdomen, On the following Tuesday the mother resumed the quarrel, and seizing the daughter by the shoulders, pushed her off the stoep, and she fell heavily on her head. With the assistance of the servant, the mother dragged the daughter into the house, and left her at the bottom of the stairs. There she remained until the following morning, when she was taken to bed, where she lay until yesterday week, when she expired. A post-mortem examination has been held by Dr. ROSS, and death is attributed to concussion of the brain, caused by the fall.

Tuesday 8 February 1870

THE LATE DR. FLECK
We record with regret the death of Dr. FLECK, during a fit of paralysis. The deceased gentleman, who had just attained his sixtieth year, was universally beloved and respected, and in his death the poor have lost one of their best and truest friends. He was born in Cape Town in the year 1810, and studied at the university of Leyden, where he obtained all the highest honours.

Tuesday 15 February 1870

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth, on the 11th Feb 1870, Mrs. E.J. MEYER of a daughter.

VERY NARROW ESCAPE
A few days ago Mr. TEE Jnr., son of Mr. Richard TEE of Eland’s River, was honey-hunting on a krantz, and fell over – an unbroken fall of nearly fifty feet. Although he fell amongst rocks he escaped with no further injury than breaking the small bone of the forearm. This has been successfully set by Dr. DYER, and he is now getting on as well as can be expected. – Uitenhage Times.

FATAL ACCIDENT
A few days since Mr. H. SMIT, pound master at Cradock’s Town, while out riding, fell from his horse, and received a heavy kick from the animal. He went home and sent for Dr. HOUSLEY, who recommended his removal to the Hospital, where he died on Thursday last, from the injuries received. The deceased, who was a German, was buried on Friday afternoon, followed to the grave by a number of his compatriots.

Tuesday 22 February 1870

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CAPE TOWN
On Sunday evening week a fire broke out in the photographic studio of Mr. BARNARD, situate in Adderley-street. The flames speedily communicated to the premises of Mr. HEYNES, and at one time it was feared that the whole block, including the Mutual Hall and Messrs. STUTTAFORD & Co’s large store, would fall a sacrifice. Luckily, however, the flames were subdued, but not until damage to the amount of £1,0000 was done. Mr. BARNARD’s property was uninsured, and he has lost not only his fine photographic gallery but the whole of his professional appliances. We sorry [sic] to learn that the decorations conferred by the Portuguese Government on Chevalier DU PRAT, which were in the saloon at the time of the fire, were fused, with some brass-headed and mosaic Jewellery, into one lump with burnt lime and half a brick.

Friday 25 February 1870

BIRTH on the 25th instant, the wife of Henry Coles BAKER of a daughter.

Friday 4 March 1870

SAD CASE
One of the Custom-house officers, Gerald MAHONY, was on watch at the Breakwater Works on Thursday night last. Yesterday morning his hat was found floating in the basin, but nothing has been heard of the poor fellow since. It is thought that he must have fallen into the water by some means, and been drowned. During the day the Water Police dragged the basin, but without finding the body. MAHONY, we hear, was head of a large family, which will be left in a state of destitution by his death. – Standard.

Tuesday 8 March 1870

DROWNING
On Sunday evening, about six o’clock, a young man named Nicholas L. GILBEY was drowned in Table Bay. The deceased, with two companions, was bathing from the South Wharf, where he was seized with cramp, and sank before any assistance could be rendered. The deceased was a groom, and was twenty-one years of age.
On Saturday afternoon the body of the man MAHONEY, whose death from drowning was reported in our last, was found in the outer basin of the Breakwater. – Standard.

SUDDEN DEATH AT CAPE TOWN
Mr. Edward L. CHIAPPINI, well known at Cape Town and Natal, and member of a very old resident family at the Cape, took a fit in the street yesterday week, and shortly afterwards breathed his last.

Friday 11 March 1870

FORGERY AND EMBEZZLEMENT
Leopold SIEBERT, formerly paymaster’s clerk to the F.A.M. Police, and who absconded to Mauritius some months ago, after embezzling and forging to a large amount, was brought back to Graham’s Town on Saturday evening. On Tuesday morning the depositions of Messrs. A. CALDERWOOD and W. BARTER were taken, and the prisoner as remanded for further evidence. SIEBERT was cleverly captured by Sergeant KELLY, F.A.M.P., who proceeded to the island for that purpose, and arrived in Table Bay by the bark Brisk; coming on to Port Elizabeth by the R.M.S. Northam.

Tuesday 15 March 1870

DIED at Somerset East on Friday evening, the 11th inst, Arthur James, aged 15 months, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. James GORDON, of Port Elizabeth.

Friday 18 March 1870

DIED at Richmond on the 9th inst, John Josias, youngest son of J.J.O. BRINK, at the age of four months.
Richmond, 12th March 1870

CRADOCK
We (Register) hear that on Sunday last a wagon belonging to some Mantatees, while crossing the Fish River between COETZEE’s (Steenbok Vlakte) and BLOEM’s, was washed away, and a woman and child, and five of the oxen, drowned. A portion only of the wagon was recovered.
At Cradock Mr. HOOLE obtained 52 votes, and Mr. PRINGLE 22.

ALIWAL NORTH
An extra to the Observer contains the following: “Masera, March 11th 1870. Dear Sir, I take the opportunity of informing you that the old Chief MOSHESH died this morning at nine o’clock. Yours truly, J.H. BOWKER.”

Tuesday 22 March 1870

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 16th instant, Mrs. Robert PETTIT of a daughter.

DROWNED IN THE BAY
On Sunday afternoon a lad of about eight years of age, son of Mr. Martin DESMOND, of Strand-street, met his death by drowning under the following circumstances. He was playing on the sea-wall, at the foot of Britannia-street, and by some means or other fell into the water, and was drawn out by the under-tow. As soon as practicable, a boat, manned by Malays, put off from the Breakwater, but arrived too late to be of service, as life was extinct when the body was recovered.

Friday 25 March 1870

BRITISH SETTLERS’ JUBILEE
The Central Committee, having resolved that the celebration of the event shall take place in May next, in Graham’s Town, give notice that
General Religious Services will be held in the various Places of Worship
on Sunday the 22nd May
And on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following
THE FESTIVITIES AND ENTERTAINMENTS
Will take place,
Programmes of which will be made Public in due course.
His Excellency the Commander of the Forces having kindly placed at the disposal of the Committee a supply of Tents for the accommodation of visitors to town on the occasion, a CAMP will be formed near the Cricket-ground. In the vicinity of water; therefore
Notice is hereby given
That written application for Tent Accommodation for families intending to be present at the Jubilee will be received by the Secretaries up to the 1st May. A good supply of fuel will be provided in the Camps. All damage done to the Tents will have to be made good by the occupants.
A FAIR
For the disposal of Fruit, Flowers, Vegetables, Poultry and Dairy Produce &c &c will be held on Saturday the 21st May, near the Sellers’ Camp, to commence at 11 o’clock. All other Produce – as Forage, Grain, Live Stock, Wood &c – will be sold at the ordinary Morning Market, held same day, at 8 o’clock am.
C.H. CALDECOTT, Vice Chairman
John WALKER } Hon. Secretaries
EP. SHINGLER }
Graham’s Town, March 11 1870.

Mr. J.C. HOOLE arrived here from Graham’s Town on Tuesday last, en route to Cape Town, whither he will proceed by the R.M.S. Natal. The election returns are not yet all in, but sufficient to show that Mr. HOOLE will be elected member of the Legislative Council by a large majority.

Tuesday 29 March 1870

BIRTH on the 22nd instant, Mrs. I.S. GORDON of a son.

DIED at Port Elizabeth on Saturday night, the 27th instant, Catherine Adeline, aged 18 months and 12 days, only child of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. BROWN.

BIRTH at Uitenhage on Friday last, the wife of H.W. BIDWELL Esq. of a daughter.

A man named Laurence DANIELS, formerly in business as a baker in this town, was committed for trial this morning on a charge of culpable insolvency.

FATAL AFFRAY
News has reached Uitenhage that a man named Hendrik KANNEMAYER quarrelled with his father-in-law at a place in the district, called Darlington. KANNEMAYER is said to have beaten the old man till he broke three of his ribs. But the latter retaliated on his antagonist so violently that both of his eyes were knocked out. Both parties were confined to their bed for several days. The old man recovered, but KANNEMAYER died from his injuries.