Tuesday, October 2, 1883   BIRTH,- At Queenstown, on the 1st October, 1883, Mrs. Alma GREEN of a Son.   Friday, October 5, 1883   AN ENTIRE FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH. Early on Sunday morning information was lodged with the police authorities at Wynberg by one Avie SCHILDER that a hut oc-occupied Klass LABSER, a white man engaged in cutting and carrying reeds, had been destroyed by fire at Lilliefontein, on the Flats, and that the entire family had fallen victims to the flames.  Chief Constable OSBORN, proceeded to the spot at daybreak, and on arrival at the hut of SCHILDER found LAUBSER lying on a bed, in a dreadful state.  He was terribly disfigured by fire, and was unable to give any particulars as to the cause of this dire clamnity.  Dr. WRIGHT, junr., was promptly in attendance, and ordered the poor fellow’s removal to the Hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries on the road.  SCHILER says that on Sunday morning he was aroused by moans outside his door, and on going out to ascertain the cause, saw LAUBSER enveloped in flames, and presenting a most shocking spectacle.   He at once took him in, and elicited from him that his hut and family were destroyed by fire.  Mr OSBORN lost no time in starting for the scene of disaster, and says that the track of LAUBSER was plainly discernable by the remains of clothing, pieces of burnt bush, and even pieces of skin, showing that he must have dragged himself along the ground to his neighbours dwelling which was about 100 yards away, while enduring most terrible agony.  On arrival at the hut Mr OSBURN, saw the charred remains of an adult female and a child laping on an iron stretcher, and another child laying on the ground.  These relics of poor humanity were carefully gathered up an interred next morning.  No clue is obtainable as to how the fire originated, as  every person who was in the hut – which is known as a “hartbeeste hut,” composed of poles and reeds – has perished.  The evidence of the neighbours is to the effect that on Saturday evening LAUBSER was somewhat the worse for liquor, and it is probable that a candle or lamp was incautiously placed in too close proximity to the inflammable sides of the humble dwelling, with the melancholy results above recorded.   Tuesday, October 9, 1883   QUEENSTOWN Fire Insurance, Loan, Trust, and Agency Company (Limited.) NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the Insolvent Estate of William Adrian GOOSEN. All persons claiming to be Creditors under this Estate are required to take notice that the undersigned has been duly elected to and confirmed in the appointment of Sole Trustee of the said Estate, and that the Master has appointed the third Meeting to be held before the Resident Magistrate, Queenstown, on Tuesday, the 13th November, 1883 at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, for the proof of debts, for receiving the Trustee’s Report, and also for the purpose of giving directions to the said Trustee as to the management of the said Estate. And all persons indebted to the said Estate are required to pay the same to the undersigned on or before the 13th November next, or proceedings will be instituted against them. J.B. SHEARAR, Sole Trustee.   Mr DE WET, the founder of Tarkastad, died at that town, and was buried in the cemetery there on Wednesday last.   Friday, October 12, 1883   HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN CAPE TOWN. The Cape Times of last Friday reports.- Yesterday morning a tragedy of the most horrible description was perpetrated in a house situated in a late of Castle-street, and between Bree and Long-streets,  The dwelling had formerly been a stable with a hay loft overhead.  In the loft lived the landlord and landlady of the place, while the lower portion was sublet to four people, two of them being a man named Isaac WYNHART, a wagon-driver in the employ of McKenzie & Co, and a woman named Maria PASHA.  The latter had been married according to the Mahomedan rites to an Indian coolie named Mahomet ALLIEM, alias Pascoe, who for the past fifteen years or so had been in the service of Barry, Arnold;  and then Robertson & Clements, stationers, and appears to have borne a good character.  ALLIEM and his wife are said to have lived unhappily together, and about ten days ago the woman left her husband’s house in Church-street and went to co-habit with WYNHARDT.  A separation, it would seem, had previously taken place, but the woman had implored her husband to take her back, which he refused to do.  It was after this that she went and stayed with WYNHART, occupying with him a portion of the room referred to off Castle-street.  In this room there was one large bed occupied by the other couple sharing the department;  the others sleeping on an extemporised bed on the ground and near the foot of the ladder leading to the loft above.  At the time the tragedy was committed only the two victims were in the room, their fellow occupants having left some time previous. Soon after seven o’clock in the morning cries of “Murder” were heard proceeding from the room in question.  The landlord rushed down stairs and discovered the Hindoo in the act of committing the murderous assault upon his wife and her paramour with a heavy meat chopper.  ALLIEM turned upon the landlord, and would also have attacked him had he not hastily retreated back upstairs, and his cries brought in assistance.  The first to enter was a Mr. Henry LUYT, whose house is opposite.  The sight that met his view was a horrible one.  The man and woman were lying on the ground in pools of blood, their heads almost severed from their bodies, which were still quivering in the last agonies of a frightful death.  From the position in which the bodies were found it was supposed that the woman must have been struck first and that a similar blow was dealt to WYNHARDT as he got off the bed to her assistance.  Dr. LANDSBERG was on the spot soon after the terrible tragedy had been enacted, but the victims were beyond all human aid.  The Resident Magistrate subsequently visited the scene of the tragedy, and the bodies, which presented a most sickening appearance, were then removed to the Somerset Hospital. In the meantime Mr. LUYT had taken ALLIEM to the police station.  He was in a state of perfect frezy when LUYT first entered the room, but became calm and self-possessed while walking to the station, remarking on the way that he went to the place that morning, and finding the couple in bed together, he pulled his wife out and killed her and then pulled out the man and killed him.  When charged at the station, he stated that his wife had been going out night after night to see her sister.  Last night she again went out, and not returning, he went to her sister’s house in the morning and found she had not been there.  He afterwards discovered her in the room in Castle-street with WYNHARDT when he committed the crime with which he was charged.  This story, it will be seen differs from that given above namely, that the woman had left some ten days before, and which, so far as we can ascertain, is the correct version.  On the arrival of the Assistant Magistrate the prisoner was removed to the gaol in Roelandstreet and will, it is expected, be brought up for examination before the Resident Magistrate on Saturday...  The woman has two children by a former husband.  ALLIEM had also been previously married.  He is a native of Cashmere, and about 60 years of age.  His honesty and steadiness are spoken highly of by his employers, and he was generally regarded as a trustworthy, inoffensive man...   Tuesday, October 23, 1883   BRUTAL MURDER.-  A most brutal affair (says the Daily Independent) transpired in the Valley on Wednesday afternoon.  A coloured child,  aged only seven months was hooked to a Kafir woman named Kate NIZIWA.  The woman with the child at her back was digging for some roots in the Valley when a man named Catistshana accosted her, assaulted her, and pushed her from a cliff on which she was standing.  In her fall the child fell from her back into the water.  The accused then took the child by the legs and dashed it three times on a stone.   Tuesday, October 30, 1883   MARRIED,- At Lady Frere, on the 15th instant, by the Rev. A.J. NEWTON, Mr. Ernest HOMER, to Mary Katharine, only daughter of Mr. Attorney JEFFREYS.   A farmer lad, of about twelve years of age named Daniel DU TOIT, was killed on Sunday last whilst on his way to church at Calitzdorp.  The boy, by accident, fell over the splash board of the cart conveying the family to church, and the wheel passing over him, caused his death almost immediately, says the Oudtshoorn Courant.   A MELANCHOLY EVENT happened at Armoed.  On Saturday afternoon, Miss JANSE VAN RENSBURG, a farmer’s daughter, committed suicide by hanging herself on a tree near the homestead.  Her father, it is said, had been busy “breying” reims, and missing one of them, went in search of it, and passing the tree, found his daughter suspended and lifeless.  It is said that a love affair drove the unfortunate girl to this desperate step. – Oudtshoorn Courant.