Issues for 3, 7, 28 October, 14 November and 23, 26, 30 December are missing from the collection at the British Library

Tuesday 14 October 1873

MARRIED on the 13th October 1873, by the Rev. Mr. IMPEY, William MORHAM, Joiner, to Margaret Ann BECKWITH, eldest daughter of Edward BECKWITH, Builder &c, Constitution-hill, Port Elizabeth. No cards.

DIED at Mauritius, August 8 1873, from disease of the heart, James William WILLIAMS, formerly of Port Elizabeth, aged 47 years and 9 months.

DIED at his residence in Weisbaden, Germany, on the 27th August last, George GRUBER Esq., formerly a resident in this town, deeply and sincerely lamented.

Friday 17 October 1873

SAD ACCIDENT
As Mr. WELFARE’s wagon was coming into town on Friday evening laden with lime, the night being dark, the wheels passed over the body of a poor man, well known about King William’s Town, named WINSEL, a miller, and killed him on the spot. The poor man has for some time been addicted to intemperate habits, and he may have been under the influence of drink, laid down, and fallen asleep and met his sad end. – K.W.T. Gazette.

ELOPEMENT FROM PHILIPSTOWN
We have received a letter signed Andries LAWRENCE, desiring us to make public the following facts:
On the 27th September a man named DE VREE ran away from Philipstown with a married woman named Elizabeth LAWRENCE, who has left her husband and a child of one year eleven months old, to follow the fortunes of her paramour. Mr. LAWRENCE says, in his indignation, “A beast like she is not worthy to be called a mother; she is just worth being pulled to pieces by four horses.” Of the gay Lothario he writes: “He is a married man, and left his wife in Pretoria.” In order that no mistake may be made, Mr. LAWRENCE describes the runaway couple as follows:- “He: A tall man with a lame leg, a mark on his nose, a moustache, and wears a ‘don’t care’ hat:
[Transcriber’s note: Apologies, this probably continues at the top of the next column with a description of the wife, but I failed to notice the paragraph was incomplete when I took the photos. I doubt he was very complimentary!]

Tuesday 21 October 1873

BIRTH on the 12th October 1873, at Zorgwyk Cottage, Gardens, Cape Town, Mrs. Wilhelm SPILHANS of a son.

Friday 24 October 1873

DEATH BY DROWNING
We regret to hear of the death by drowning at Lady Grey of a child of Mr. CROWLEY’s, under the following circumstances: The child was missing for some time, and, after a diligent search, was discovered floating in a pond of water close to the premises. – Aliwal Standard.

Friday 31 October 1873

DIED at Port Elizabeth on Friday the 24th October, Charles William, beloved and only son of William and Lucy GASSON, aged 10 months and 8 days.

DIED on the 7th September 1873, at Askew Villa, Uxbridge Road, London, Matilda, beloved wife of Mr. James BRISTER, of Port Elizabeth, aged 40 years.

DIED at his late Residence, Walmer Road, Port Elizabeth, on the 25th October 1873, Geo. Henry ALEXANDER, late of St.Helena, aged 59 years.

DIED at the Family Residence, St.Mary’s Terrace, on Tuesday the 28th October 1873, Elizabeth Margaret, third daughter of George KETTLE Esq., Main-street, Port Elizabeth. – Deeply regretted.

DIED at Kimberley, Diamond Fields, on Sunday evening, the 28th Sept., Richard John, aged 2 years and 21 days, the only son of Mr. R.J. WILLIAMS, of Port Elizabeth, deeply regretted by Relatives and Friends.
Kimberley, 29th Sept. 1873

Tuesday 4 November 1873

BIRTH at 3 Gordon Terrace, Port Elizabeth, on the 3rd November, Mrs. A. WILMOT of a daughter.

Friday 7 November 1873

MARRIED on the 16th October, at St.John’s, Fauresmith, Orange Free State, by the Rev. S.W. Steven, Sidney HOWLETT to Marianne Agatha O’DONNELL. No cards.

DIED of Croup at Port Elizabeth, on Thursday night, James MURPHY, aged 2 years and 9 months, son of Mr. James MURPHY, De Stades River.
The Funeral will leave Mr. P. MULLEN’s at 4:30 this afternoon.

The death is announced of Dr. Edward DAVIES, who, after a long and painful illness, expired in Graham’s Town on Monday last, in his fifty-second year. His large family have the sympathy of all circles in their irreparable bereavement. Dr. DAVIES was well known beyond the circle of families in which his extensive practice was carried on, and wherever he was known he was respected. He is affectionately remembered in Cradock still. Indeed, wherever he was known, he was more than respected. He was loved. A kindlier heart never beat. His practice was large, and what would commonly be called fashionable. Yet he will be chiefly remembered by the poor. He was never known to fail in prompt and generous attention to any case amongst the humbler classes; and to say that he had the full confidence of every family he visited professionally is a meagre description of the gap which his disappearance will create in Graham’s Town society. – Star.

SAD ACCIDENT
An accident of a serious nature, and which is most likely to result fatally, occurred on Sunday last to a youth, named William STYLES, in the employ of Mr. Z. ULYATE. It seems that on the day mentioned he was riding out to the farm “Thornhill”, on the other side of Fincham’s Neck. When he arrived at the Neck, STYLES was in the act of dismounting to light his pipe, and while he still had his left foot in the stirrup the pony turned round and started for Queen’s Town at a gallop. The rider threw himself across the saddle, but before he could recover his position on the pony’s back he was pitched onto his forehead. A native boy came into town and informed Mr. FRENCH (who had lent STYLES the pony) of the mishap, when that gentleman inspanned his cart and fetched the sufferer in. It was found that the whole of the front portion of the head was smashed in and the bones pressed on the brain. On Monday morning an operation was performed and the bones raised. The unfortunate lad is still in a very dangerous condition, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. – Q.T. Representative.

ACCIDENT
We regret to learn that an accident of a serious nature occurred to Messrs. BRADFIELD and John BROWN on Wednesday afternoon. It seems they were driving up Cathcart-road in a pony-chaise, and when near the Hexagon the pony bolted. Mr. BROWN was thrown from the carriage, and received a number of nasty bruises. Mr. BRADFIELD, who jumped for it, came off still worse, his collar-bone being broken by the fall, and a number of bruises inflicted. – Q.T. Representative.

Tuesday 11 November 1873

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 4th instant, Mrs. Geo. LESLIE of a son.
10th November 1873.

MELANCHOLY CASE OF DROWNING
This morning, between seven and eight o’clock, a young man named Francis HOGG, lately from England, and in the employ of Messrs. J. BENJAMIN & Co, was accidentally drowned while bathing at the Breakwater. It appears from the statement of Mr. Wm. W. STEYNER, who was bathing at the time, that he sprang off the side of the bath into the water, and was never seen again. Probably he was swept away by the strong current, which sweeps round the head of the Breakwater after south-east gales. Search was made for the body this morning, and drags used, but up to the hour of our going to press it had not been recovered.

EMBEZZLEMENT
This morning a respectable-looking youth named George Nelson PELL was brought before the Resident Magistrate, and pleaded not guilty to robbing his employers, SMITH Bros., of half a sovereign. The money had been marked and handed to him, and on its being missed the prisoner was searched, and the half-sovereign found in his waistcoat pocket. Mr. Attorney DYASON appeared for the defence, and requested the Magistrate to take a lenient view of the case. Mr. Advocate ROSS-JOHNSON also addressed the Court, and said that the Judges had frequently ruled in his presence that until a classification of prisoners was made in this colony, cases of this kind should be very carefully dealt with. Mr. JOHNSON made a powerful appeal to the Court. His Worship sentenced the prisoner to fourteen days’ solitary confinement, and ordered that he should not be allowed to mingle with the other inmates of the gaol.

Tuesday 18 November 1873

DIED at Port Elizabeth on the 10th November, Ile Theresa Fransinka SCHWEIZER, beloved daughter of Ile and Constantin SCHWEIZER, aged 3 months and 13 days.

DIED at Humansdorp on the 9th inst, aged 80 years, Caroline, widow of the late Colonel SMYTH, of the 62nd Regiment.

Friday 21 November 1873

DIED at Eilands River on Friday the 14th November 1873, Elizabeth, beloved wife of T.B. PALMER Esq.

Tuesday 25 November 1873

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 25th November, Mrs. A. KAEMPFFER of a daughter.

DIED at Port Elizabeth on the 21st Nov, Mary Ann, beloved daughter of Mrs. Willliam BILLSON, aged 14 years and 2 months.

FATAL ACCIDENT
On Thursday evening last a lad named Andew BRINK, nephew of Mr. G.E.O. BRINK, of Bedford, mounted a horse which was standing in front of the hotel, and started on a ride. The animal bolted, and soon afterwards threw its rider heavily to the ground, causing concussion of the brain. The poor lad died two hours afterwards, and was buried on Saturday morning, being followed to the grave by nearly every man and boy in the village.

Friday 28 November 1873

MARRIED at All Saints Church, Somerset East, on Wednesday the 19th November, by the Rev. H.R. Woodroffe, William Robert KENNERLEY Esq., Attorney-at-Law, to Louisa Matilda, eldest daughter of Henry BROWN Esq., of Somerset East, late of Port Elizabeth. No cards.
Somerset East, Nov 22 1873.

Tuesday 2 December 1873

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 29th November, Mrs. H.W.B. DE WET of a son.
1st December 1873.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LIGHTHOUSE
On Wednesday last a painter named Alfred C. CUZNER, in the employ of Mr. C.W. FRAMES, while engaged in painting the lighthouse at Cape Receiffe [sic], met his death in the following manner. It appears that he was suspended in a tub over the side of the lighthouse, for the purpose of getting at his work. Mr. John DUTHIE, the light keeper, had occasion to go outside, and to his horror discovered the deceased hanging head downwards, with his foot jammed between the rope and the tub. He immediately procured assistance, and lowered the man down, but life was extinct. Death is supposed to have resulted from suffocation. Deceased has no relatives in the town to mourn his loss.

Tuesday 9 December 1873

DIED at his late residence, Prince’s-street, Port Elizabeth, on Friday the 5th December 1873, James CRAWFORD Esq. J.P., aged 78 years.

DIED at Middelburg on Tuesday morning, the 2nd December 1873, Daniel Petrus HAUPT, aged 37 years and 6 months, deeply lamented by all.
Middelburg, December 2 1873.

THE LATE MR. JAMES CRAWFORD
Another of the early inhabitants of Port Elizabeth has passed away from our midst. Mr. James CRAWFORD, so long and honourably known as one of our most upright businessmen, died rather suddenly on Friday last from a severe attack of diarrhoea, brought on by cold. For some time past, however, the more intimate friends of Mr. CRAWFORD could see that his health and his strength were beginning very rapidly to fail him, and those who had nearest access to the private workings of his heart had already learned that for some years past he had lived less amid the scenes in which he was moving here below than amid other scenes of the great future, to which he was not unwilling that he should be summoned. A rapid succession of deaths in his most estimable family had told very severely on the warm heart and affectionate nature of Mr. CRAWFORD. His two sons, both young men of promise, were carried off in youth, one by intestine complaint and the other by consumption, and these heavy blows, following each other in rapid succession, were consummated into almost overwhelming grief by the death immediately afterwards of his daughter, Mrs. PHILLIPS, who was thrown from her pony carriage and killed on the spot. To the outward world Mr. CRAWFORD seemed still to be bearing up against these fearful bereavements, but one to whom he could trust his feelings relates that it was not so, and that amid the most affecting experiences of his life had been that of listening, even in the market-place, to the recital by Mr. CRAWFORD of the most beautiful snatches of poetry on the hopes of the happy reunions of the brighter future, with the tears stealing rapidly, one after another, down his sorrow-stricken face. And as if the cup of grief had not already been filled to Mr. CRAWFORD, he was within the present year called upon to bear two very heavy additional bereavements, in the death of his son-in-law, Mr. PATTINSON, in the beginning of the present year, and in the death of a second son-in-law, Mr. MARSH, of Graham’s Town, within the last two months, while Mrs. CRAWFORD herself, his sorrowing widow, whom he has left behind, has been for several years a martyr to the most excruciating rheumatism, and in this her sore affliction a constant strain upon the watchful care and day and night anxiety of her now deceased husband. Mr. CRAWFORD came to this colony as one of the original Settlers in 1820. He had been brought up in one of the great publishing establishments of Paternoster Row, in London, and was a man of great taste and no inconsiderable attainment in literature. He established himself in business in this colony first in Graaff-Reinet, during the times of the late Sir Andries STOCKENSTROM, where he made a competency for his family, after which he moved down here to Port Elizabeth, upwards of thirty years ago, and where his name in business circles has ever since been synonymous with the highest honour and the strictest integrity. But now he has passed forever from our midst. With his sorrowing family the deepest sympathy is felt, and it was testified in the numbers of old friends that followed Mr. CRAWFORD’s remains to their last resting place in the beautiful Scotch cemetery in St.George’s Park.

Friday 12 December 1873

DIED on the 11th instant, Ada Louisa, youngest daughter of John SPENCE, Queen Street, aged 15 months.

OBITUARY
A correspondent at Middelburg writes: Our small community has suffered a great loss by the decease of our respected citizen, Mr. D.P. HAUPT, who breathed his last on the second of this month. The deceased has lived nearly sixteen years among us, and many are the acts of benevolence and charity he executed with so much tact and good feeling. He was a public-spirited man, always ready to co-operate for the improvement and welfare of our community, and well will he be missed by those who looked upon him as a useful member of society. Mr. HAUPT held the offices of sworn appraiser, deputy sheriff, secretary to the Divisional Council, member of the Municipality &c, for many years past, to the satisfaction of all those who enjoyed his services and assistance. His last remains were consigned to the grave on the 3rd December, all inhabitants attending the mournful scene, and the handful of Masons in this place joined to inter the body with Masonic honours. May he rest in peace.

Friday 19 December 1873

MARRIED on the 16th inst, at St.Paul’s Church, by the Rev. S. Brook, Mr. John PETHEYBRIDGE, of Port Elizabeth, to Miss Mary TOZER, of Paignton, Devonshire, England.

Mr. James HIGGINS, lately an officer of Her Majesty’s Customs, Port Elizabeth, died of consumption at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, on the 5th inst. The deceased was highly respected in the department to which he belonged, as well as by those with whom, in the discharge of his duty, he daily came in contact. The long journey from Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein proved too severe a tax upon his delicate constitution, and he never rallied from the fatal disease. He leaves a widow and three young children, to whom we tender our warmest sympathy,