Friday, August 10, 1883   DIED.- At Queenstown on the 6th instant, Garroline Matilda, infant daughter of G.C. and M.B. WOLFF, aged 2 months and 9 days.   Tuesday, August 14, 1883   DIED,- At Queenstown, August 8. 1883, Elizabeth Grace, beloved wife of Alfred MAYTHAM, aged 44 years. 19 days.  Friends at a distance will please accept this notice.   WEDDING.- On Wednesday, the 8th August, a grand gathering of the friends and neighbours of Mr. James MARSHALL took place at his residence at Diep River, to celebrate the marriage of Miss Jane MARSHALL, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs MARSHALL, tow of the oldest residents in this district, to Mr. BOUCHER...   Suicide of a Police Contable at Kimberley. A shocking suicide took place on Thursday afternoon at the Police Barracks.  About three o’clock William YOUNG, a private in the Griqualand West Mounted Constabulary, was found lying dead in the saddle-room in a pool of blood, and under his right hand one of the Service six-chambered revolvers, one barrel of which had recently been discharges.  No one had heard the report as the door was shut, and it was by Constable DUNCAN having occasion to go into the room for brushes that the tragical occurrence became known.  The Resident Magistrate, Mr TRUTER, was at once sent for and a guard placed over the room.  The medical evidence showed that the deceased must have placed the revolver between his teeth and fired, death being instantaneous.  The saddest particular of the affair is that YOUNG was to have been married yesterday, and killed himself only five minutes before the ceremony was to have been celebrated.  He had invited many of his comrades to a spread which was to follow the event, and the tables were even then ready for the festivities... – Independent.   Tuesday, August 21, 1883   BIRTH,- At Hilton, on the 13th inst., the wife of Rev. Geo WEAVER, of a son.   THE death is announced in the Natal papers of Mr CUMMING, who accompanied Dr SOMERVILLE in his Gospel mission through South Africa.  He died at sea between Mauritius and Burmah.   SAD AFFAIR AT LADYSMITH. A Ladysmith correspondent of a Natal contemporary writes under the date 9th instant: - A melancholy event occurred to day in Ladysmith, which  has cast a gloom over the whole town, and is a special source of grief to many of our townspeople.  A young lady by name Miss Mary WEBB, met her death a in somewhat mysterious and melancholy manner this morning.  The deceased was about 24 years of age, and came out to this colony from England in November, 1880, in company with Mr and Mrs RANDLES, of this town, in the capacity of companion to Mrs RANDLES and has resided with the family in Ladysmith since that time.  About fifteen months ago the deceased lady had a severe fever, which left her in a feeble state of health, and she appears never to have regained her former strength.  She quite recently sustained a severe shock to the nervous system in the intelligence conveyed by late telegram from Europe of the untoward death of her brother, the late captain Matthew WEBB, the renowned champion swimmer who was drowned in a whirlpool near Niagara.  The report of this sad affair, following on other domestic troubles, appears to have been too much for an already enfeebled mind and body, there can be no doubt it was the indirect cause of the circumstances connected with the death of the deceased young lady especially as it was known that her mind was more or less deranged.  It appears the deceased was missed this morning at the usual hour of breakfast, and upon making enquiries of the servants of the house, Mrs RANDLES discovered she must have left the house, before or after daybreak, as the servants reported having found the house door as well as the deceased’s bed room door open when they got up.  The young lady’s disappearance having been made known through the town enquiries and searches were instituted in every direction, and as she had many friends, great anxiety was shown to discover what had befallen her.  J F BARTLETT, in searching along the waterfurrow observed what afterwards turned out to be the body of the deceased, in a deep pool, and went back to town for assistance to recover the body.  He returned with Messrs RANDLES HASSARD and REYNOLDS, with appliances and recovered the body...   Tuesday, August 28, 1883   BIRTH,- At Bushman’s Kop, O.F.S., on the 18th instant, the Wife of E. HAMER, Esq., of a Son.   DEATH OF DR. EVERITT. It is with profound regret that we announce the death of Dr EVERITT, which took place at his residence in Tarkastad on Friday morning .  The deceased gentleman was very highly respected in the locality in which he resided.  He had many personal friends in Queenstown as well as in other parts of the colony...  The cause was congestion of the lungs, and he had been confined to bed only for a few days.  The funeral took place on Sunday, and was attended by about five or six hundred people – all classes of society in the district being represented...   IN MEMORIAM. COMMANDATN DAVID DAVIES. By Mr. J.M. STEVENSON. One of the most respected members of society on the frontier of the Cape Colony died at his residence at Oaklands, division of King Williamstown, on 8th August, 1883, aged 78 years and three months... He leaves an amiable and thrifty widow, three sons, two daughters, and large circle of relatives and friends to deplore their irreparable loss. Commandant DAVIES entered the army and joined the 90th Light Infantry Regiment when he was 16 years of age.  He served with his regiment during its period of service in the Mediterranean, puttong down the Greek rebellion and Pirates or Brigands of the Islands.  In one of his engagements he was wounded by a sabre cut on his head by one of the brigand chiefs, whom he captured with his own hands and took to the camp. Commandant DAVIES was a powerful swimmer, and when the ship, in which a large portion of his regiment was embarked, was wrecked off one of the then uninhabited islands of the Mediterranean sea, he swam to and from the island to the wreck and saved 21 lives, mostly ladies of the his regiment, the boats having been staved in, and he also brought from the wreck several barrels of food for their sustenance. Commandant DAVIES came from Ceylon to this colony with his regiment, of which he was adjutant, in 1846, ... – Mercury.