Tuesday 3 September 1889

ATTWELL – PASSED AWAY, on August 31st 1889, at Bloemfontein, O.F.S., Emma, the beloved wife of George Brooke ATTWELL, and second daughter of Mr. C.J. STIRK of Grahamstown.

DEATH OF MRS. G.B. ATTWELL
It seems only the other day that Commemoration Church was crowded to witness the wedding of Mr. George B. ATTWELL and Miss Emma STIRK, daughter of Mr. C.J. STIRK of this city. We can almost hear the sound of the wedding bells still. On Saturday afternoon came the melancholy tidings by wire from Bloemfontein, the husband’s home, that his bride of a month had passed away, shortly after two o’clock. Mrs. ATTWELL had been suffering from an affliction of the heart, and shortly after her arrival at Bloemfontein alarming symptoms appeared, which induced Mr. and Mrs. STIRK to hasten to their daughter’s bedside. The symptoms had, however, so far disappeared that Mrs. ATTWELL was considered to be on the road to recovery, when on Saturday the fatal change took place, and she was seen to be sinking fast. In spite pf all that medical skill could devise this accomplished young lady breathed her last at the time already mentioned. The deceased lady was very well and favourably known in Grahamstown, and her numerous girl friends will feel her death as a personal bereavement. To the parents and family of the deceased, and to her bereaved husband, the sorrowing sympathy of the community will be extended, and we add our own condolences to those of their more intimate friends. The funeral took place at Bloemfontein yesterday.

OBITUARY
At two o’clock this morning Mr. James PERKINS, second clerk to C.C. and R.M., passed away after a brief though severe illness. The deceased was in former years senior partner in the important firm of PERKINS, OGILVIE & Co, general merchants, carrying on business at Port Elizabeth. After the collapse of that business Mr. PERKINS was Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Hay, in the province of Griqualand West. His first appointment on the Cape establishment was in September 1880, when he was sent to the Attorney-General’s office as Accountant. In August of 1883 he was transferred to Alexandria as Clerk to the C.C. and R.M., where he remained until early in the present year, when he came to Grahamstown to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. VAN DER RIET. Deceased, who was about 78 years of age, had been for a long time ailing, but the end was sudden and unexpected. He leaves a widow and large family (grown) to mourn their loss, and we tender sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY
A telegram received in Glasgow by the African Lakes Company from Mozambique announces the death recently of the Rev. Alexander BAIN MA, which occurred in [Band....] in May last. The news of the rev. gentleman’s untimely death has evoked a general feeling of regret in Glasgow, and also in Aberdeen, to which latter part of the country he belonged.

Thursday 5 September 1889

MARRIED at Commemoration Church on the 4th Sept, by the Rev. T. Chubb, William James, son of Mr. Geo. HARPER of Howard’s Party, to Alice Adelaide, daughter of Mr. William WICKS of Grahamstown.

WEDDING YESTERDAY
Yesterday at Commemoration Church the Rev. Theo. CHUBB MA united in the bonds of wedlock Mr. W.J. HARPER, eldest son of Mr. G. HARPER of Howard’s Party, and Miss Alice Adelaide WICKS, fifth daughter of our townsman, Mr. W. WICKS. A number of friends of both parties were present, of course, on the happy occasion. The bride, who was tastefully and appropriately attired, was given away by her father. The wedding party afterwards assembled at the residence of the bride’s father, and the usual festivities were enacted. Miss WICKS has for some time past given valuable assistance in the Fort England Sunday School, and the high appreciation in which her services were held by her fellow-officers and teachers was shown by a handsome cruet stand, which was included amongst other costly, ornamental and useful presents. We wish the young people every happiness in the new life on which they have embarked, under such auspicious circumstances.

DEATH AT QUEENSTOWN
We regret to hear of the death of Percy MORUM, son of Mr. Stephen MORUM, of Queenstown, at the age of 9 years. Up to Friday he was apparently well, when he complained of a sore throat, which rapidly developed into bronchitis. The doctor was immediately in attendance, and every attention that loving parents and kind relatives could pay was given to relieve the little sufferer, but without avail. He passed away at six o’clock on Monday morning. We (Free Press) tender to the parents and relatives our sympathy in their sad bereavement.

MARRIAGE OF REV. J.T. DARRAGH
The marriage of the Rev. J.T. DARRAGH of Johannesburg with Miss ROSS, who has been a Lady Principal of St.Mary’s College for some time, is announced, says the Golden Age, to take place on Tuesday September 10th.

Saturday 7 September 1889

MARRIED at the Wesleyan Chapel, West Hill, by the Rev. Theo. Chubb BA, on Thursday Sept 5th, Ernest PARKER to Ida Louise, second daughter of the late Mr. John SWAN of Port Alfred.

DIED on the 4th September 1889 at 103 Ladbroke Road, London, N. BIRKENRUTH Esq, aged 77 years.

UNITED ALBANY BRETHREN BENEFIT SOCIETY
FUNERAL NOTICE
The Brethren will please meet in Club Room on Sunday afternoon at 3:30, to proceed to the residence of our late Bro. Thos. EMMS, Francis-street, Oatlands.
Geo. SHAW, Secretary.

OBITUARY
We regret to hear that an old resident of Grahamstown, Mr. T. EMMS, died of apoplexy at his residence in Caroline street shortly after midnight. His son, Mr. A. EMMS, of Hell Poort, was sent for post haste, but did not arrive in time to see his father alive. Deceased, who had reached a ripe old age, leaves several grown up sons and daughters to mourn him, in different parts of the country. With them we express all the sympathy due at such a time to those bereaved.

WEDDING
At West Hill Wesleyan Church yesterday Mr. Ernest PARKER, son of Mr. T.H. PARKER, was married to Miss Ida Louise SWAN, daughter of the late Mr. John SWAN of Port Alfred. The Rev. Theo. CHUBB BA was the officiating officer. Owing to recent bereavement, the marriage was a very quiet one, and immediately after the ceremony the newly wedded pair left for the home of the bridegroom, followed by no end of good wishes for their future happiness and prosperity, in which we cordially join.

DEATH OF MR. BIRKENRUTH
Th death is announced of N. BIRKENRUTH Esq, aged 77 years, at his residence in London. Mr. BIRKENRUTH will be remembered as one of the principal merchants of Grahamstown in olden days.

Saturday 14 September 1889

DEATH OF MRS. CAMPBELL
We are sorry to learn that this lady, the wife of Colin T. CAMPBELL Esq of Kimberley, has died after an illness of two days. Mrs. CAMPBELL was a Miss ASHBURNHAM.

DEATH OF MR. HUNTLY
We (European Mail) regret to hear of the death, which occurred somewhat suddenly at Dartmouth on August 15th, of Mr.Charles Hugh HUNTLY C.M.G., late Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Grahamstown. The deceased gentleman, who was 69 years of age, was an old public servant, and he was held in high esteem by a very large circle of friends.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY
The death on August 26 of an old missionary amongst the natives, Rev. Richard BAUER, of Goshen, near Cathcart, is announced. Mr. BAUER had been in the Mission field for fully thirty four years. His removal will be much felt not only by those of his denomination –the Moravians – but by his Missionary colleagues throughout Kafirland, who have known him during the long weary years he has been at his post.

DEATH OF DR. KRAUSE OF BLOEMFONTEIN
Dr. Carl Johan Gottlieb KRAUSE died in Bloemfontein on September 6th, from congestion of the lungs. Dr. KRAUSE (says The Friend of the Free State) was one of our oldest inhabitants, having taken up his residence in this town after the abandonment in 1854. He was a native of Döhingshagen in Prussian Posen, where he was born in 1825, and having been selected as a missionary by the Berlin Missionary Society, came out to South Africa in the year 1850, and was stationed at Bethany, in this State. When the troops left - there being no medical man in this town – Dr. KRAUSE came here, and soon afterwards received the appointment of Government doctor, and was indeed the only medical man here for seven or eight years. Upon the establishment of the first Municipality under the Free State laws, he was elected as a Municipal Commissioner, and was a very active member of the Board for many years. Through the evidence he gave and the active part he took in the COX murder case he rendered himself extremely unpopular with the English citizens in this town and the neighbourhood at the time – 1856. Time, however, which removes aspersions, had been kind to the old doctor, who outlived all the bad feeling manifested towards him for five or six years after the above memorable event. He had led a most active life. Although he was engaged in the practice of his profession, he found time to fill several important honorary posts. He was Treasurer and Curator of the Grey College, a Curator of the Dames Institute, a member of the Government Building Committee of this town, a Curator of the Museum. At the time of his death he was District Surgeon, Surgeon to the Artillery Corps and Physician of the Lunatic Asylum. He formerly sat in the Volksrad for the town of Bethlehem, and was for some years Town Councillor for one of the wards of this city. He was a Freemason, and was for some time W.M. of the Lodge Union. He was one of the founders of the Bloemfontein Club, an institution in which he always took a most lively interest. Dr. KRAUSE was also a most indefatigable gardener, and was very successful in tree-culture, especially in the introduction of the choicest kind of fruit trees. It is said that Dr. KRAUSE was the Sir Walter Raleigh of the Free State, as he was the first person who introduced the potato into the country. He planted them at Bethany in 1548 [sic, should be 1854]. It was a strange coincidence that the doctor died on the thirty fifth anniversary of his arrival in this town. He took a very great interest in meteorology, and has kept for upwards of ten years meteorological returns of the temperature, the wet and dry bulb thermometer, the height of the barometer, and the rainfall, and it was his intention to have published these for the benefit of science in general, and the town in particular as a health resort for those suffering from pulmonary complaints. In private life he was much liked. No more hospitable man ever lived in this town. He leaves behind him a widow and a large family of eleven children. His eldest son (Otto) is a doctor in the village of Philippolis; his second (Carl) is clerk to the Gold Commissioner at Barberton; the third (Albert) is State-Attorney of the Transvaal, and the fourth (William) is a medical man at Brandfort. His eldest daughter is married to the Rev. Paul WINTER, Dutch Reformed Church minister of Bultfontein, and Moderator of the Synod; the second daughter is married to Mr. J.W. MOGG of Pretoria, and Chairman of the Exchange Company; and the third is married to Dr. Harry DIXON, of Klerksdorp S.A.R. The younger children are at college. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, September 8th.

Tuesday 17 September 1889

DEATH OF MR. W.C. HENMAN
Death has visited the Kowie and removed on of the most respected of its inhabitants in the person of the late Mr. W.C. HENMAN of the Customs Department. Deceased, who was a Freemason of long standing, was followed to his last resting place by the local members of the Craft, as well as by the Sunday School children, in whose instruction he had always taken such a deep interest.

DEATH OF MRS. HOOD
Another old resident of Grahamstown died on Sunday morning last, her years having exceeded the scriptural threescore and ten by one year. The late Mrs. HOOD had for some time past been in ailing health, but her death will be much felt by many to whom her kind and amiable character had endeared her. To her three sons and three daughters we tender our sincerest sympathy.

DEATH OF MR. C.F.W. ROCHOW
Dr. Caesar F.W. ROCHOW departed this life at the Albany Hospital on Saturday last. Deceased, who had for some years been District Surgeon of Peddie, arrived in town on Wednesday, and while here was seized with a succession of fits, which rendered it necessary to remove him on Thursday morning to the Hospital. Dr. ROCHOW was a great favourite in Peddie, and his loss will be sincerely mourned. Nearly all the representatives of the medical profession in town followed his remains to the grave yesterday morning. The Rev. MOSEL conducted the funeral [rites].

BURNT TO DEATH
A little after five o’clock on Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in the stable of Mr. M. BOLAND, Mechanic’s Arms, Queen-street, which was unfortunately attended with fatal results. Dr. CONSIDINE had been at Mr. BOLAND’s attending a sick child and had just left. Miss BOLAND after the doctor’s departure went on to the balcony and was alarmed by a crackling sound, as if dry wood were burning. Looking down she saw the stable in a blaze, but had no idea that anyone had recently been inside it. Efforts were made to extinguish the fire, a work of difficulty where there was so much dry wood and forage, and suddenly someone missed Mr. BOLAND’s son, aged about four years. This of course expedited efforts, and the fire being got under [control], a person named McGRATH went into the building, and to his consternation discovered that Mr. BOLAND’s little boy – a fine little fellow – had fallen a victim to the flames; a horse was also dreadfully burnt. The poor little boy was found in one corner of the stable – probably where the fire took place – shockingly disfigured and quite dead. The doctor was immediately sent for, but his attendance was useless; the young life had been sacrificed. There is a surmise that he was playing with matches, but this is not certain. We (Telegraph) deeply sympathise with the bereaved family.

Thursday 19 September 1889

MARRIED at Grahamstown this morning, Sept. 18 1889, by Special Licence, John BURNETT to Agnes Rossie, fourth daughter of Mr. James FITCHAT of this city.

MR. J. HAYNE’S DEATH
Intelligence had reached us last issue of the mere fact that Mr. J. HAYNE, brother of Mrs. J.R. [REID], had met with a fatal accident. A letter in another column gives further details of the sad event, and from the D.F. Advertiser also it appears that deceased was hastening to render assistance in a fire which had broken out in the engine-house of the Bultfontein Consolidated Mines property, and in the darkness fell into a well which had been opened, his neck being broken by the fall. Mr. HAYNE was a member of the Diamond Fields Horse, and a large number of his late comrades escorted his remains to the Burial Ground, the band playing the Dead March in Saul. Mr. HAYNE was only 22 years of age, and his sad death is much lamented by numerous friends.

Saturday 21 September 1889

PASSED AWAY this morning, Sept. 21st 1889, at Grahamstown, Henry Joseph Reed MOORE, dearly beloved son of William and Eliza MOORE, aged 8 years and 8 days.
“Safe in the arms of Jesus”.
The Funeral takes place tomorrow (Sunday) at 4 o’clock. Friends are invited to attend.

Tuesday 25 September1889 [sic, should be 24]

BURNT TO DEATH
One of the saddest occurrences on record is reported to have taken place at Bathurst on Saturday morning last, by which Mrs. Samuel HAYES Sen. lost her life. Of course the exact facts will never be known, but appearances seemed to indicate that the old lady had got up early in the morning, possibly to light the fire, and owing to some accident her clothes were ignited by the overturned lamp, and she perished in the flames. Whether the deceased had been seized with a fit and fallen against the lamp, or had accidentally upset the lamp, can only be matters of surmise. The Kafir boy Jan, coming at his usual hour to the house, noticed volumes of smoke proceeding from the room, and immediately raised the alarm, or the whole house and property would have been totally destroyed. The sad event is rendered still sadder by the reflection that Mrs. HAYES had reached the age of 72 years. The funeral took place at half past nine on Sunday morning.

KILLED BY FOOTBALL
We regret to note that Mr. W. MOORE, the Waterman, has lost his little boy, aged 8 years. It seems the boy was engaged in a game of football with some fellow scholars, and sustained the injuries which resulted in death. The bereaved parents will have widespread sympathy.

Thursday 26 September 1889

BIRTH at Glenthorpe Villa, Grahamstown, on September 21 1889, the wife of Mr. Harry STIRK of a son.

MARRIED in St.Augustine’s R.C. Church (Port Elizabeth) on the 24th inst by the Right Rev. Dr. Ricards, assisted by the Rev. Fathers [Strobino] and Hauten, Katie Marian BELL, eldest daughter of the late J.S. BELL Esq of H.M. Customs, and grandniece of the late General Sir John BELL K.C.B., to Francis Joseph GARDINER Esq, Secretary Board of Executors, Kimberley.

FASHIONABLE WEDDING IN PORT ELIZABETH
On Tuesday last, the 24th inst, a very interesting ceremony took place in St.Augustine’s R.C. Church, being the marriage of Miss Katie Marian BELL, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John BELL of H.M. Customs, to F.J. GARDINER Esq, of Kimberley. About two o’clock the bride, accompanied by two bridesmaids, entered the Church, and was received at the Altar by the bishop with mitre and crozier, who, after having delivered an impressive address, tied the nuptial knot. As the bride left the Church the Wedding March was played on the grand organ of St.Augustine’s. The reception was held at the Grand Hotel, where a great many friends attended to offer their congratulations. At four the happy couple started for [..adies] amidst showers of rice and good wishes for their future welfare. A word or two about the dresses. The bride’s dress was ivory satin brocade, selected by herself in Paris, with train two yards in length which was borne by a little boy in sailor costume. The bridesmaids were dressed in cream merveilleux, carrying lovely bouquets. The Church was thronged, and one and all must admit the bride looked sweet and pretty. The presents were numerous and many costly. We may take this opportunity to say that Miss BELL, now Mrs. GARDINER, has just returned from a trip to the Continent, and had the very great honour of an audience with the Pope at the Vatican.

DEATH OF C.J. WAYLAND ESQ.
One of the first pioneers of civilization in Griqualand West has just passed away from our midst in his seventy-third year. The late Charles Joseph WAYLAND, who died at Hopetown on the 14th inst, was well known to a great many residents of this Province. He came to this colony from England in 1846, and after following farming pursuits in different parts of the Eastern Province, Mr. WAYLAND, with his family and a few friends, trekked boldly into what was then the wilderness of Griqualand West. He formed one of the Commission under the Chief WATERBOER for establishing the British settlement at Albania, having the well-known farm “Belmont” allotted to him, whilst his sons and friends settled around him. The deceased gentleman did good service in opening up and developing the country, and upon the discovery of diamonds took a prominent part in the negotiations which took place for handing over the country to the British Government. He also acted as the Special Justice of the Peace for the settlement under the Chief WATERBOER, and under the British Government held Her Majesty’s Commission of the Peace.
The late Mr. WAYLAND was looked up to and respected as a gentleman of unblemished honour and probity, and also a kind friend, and the soul of hospitality, his well-known house at “Belmont” being always opened to receive the weary traveller of whatever nationality.
Five years ago he was afflicted with total blindness, the effect of a severe illness, which completely laid him by from active service. His sufferings were borne with exemplary Christian patience and fortitude. He served his day and generation well, and has gone to his reward. – D.F. Advertiser.

Saturday 28 September 1889

SUICIDE OF A FARMER
A correspondent of the Express, writing from Winburg, reports the suicide of a well-to-do farmer, Jacob BOSCH. On the morning of the 12th inst he told his brother that he wished to “trek”, and his brother refused to let him go. He said “Yes I want to trek, and won’t remain a day longer.” It of course never occurred to anybody that he was going to make away with himself. In the evening he locked himself up in his room. Shortly afterwards two shots were heard, and when the door was forced he was found dead on his bed.