Tuesday, July 1, 1884   In the Intestate Estate of Ralph JOHNSON. All Persons having any Claims against the above Estate are requested to send them in within Six Weeks from this date;  and all persons indebted to pay the same to the undersigued within the same period. E.W. WELCH, Executor Dative. Queenstown, Juue 30, 1884   THE SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR THE GOLD FIELDS. We have received the following extract from a private letter dated from Grasskop, near Lydenberg, on the 25th ultimo:- “I only reached here on Friday evening (23rd May) and have been into Pilgrim’s Rest since to report a very sad as well as serious affair, which I have had to take part in.  Last Tuesday night when I got on to the top of the “Crocodile Berg” (on the Spitzkop side) I met a Mr. GLYNN with two wagons, so I slept there, as I was travelling with Mr. HALL’s wagons.  Mr. FINLAYSON (a digger), who was travelling with Mr. GLYNN, told me that as they were travelling along they saw some firewood in front of a small Kafir hut. Close to the road, so they went to fetch it away, and on going up to the hut the Kafir, who was first, turned and said to Mr. F., “Boss, there is a white man inside,” so Mr. F. Called out, and getting no answer he entered the hut, and found a white man lying on his back dead, with a knife sticking in his throat.  The poor fellow had been murdered some days previous, it seems, and Mr. F. Looked for papers in one of the coat pockets, but only found a little tobacco, so left the body alone and came away,  On my hearing this I had a talk with Mr. HALL, who caught his wagons up that night, and we decided to bury the body and report it.  This is what we found next morning:  On entering the hut we found the man lying on his back, with a shirt, waistcoat, trousers, and socks on, and lying about the hut we found a couple of coats, a blue blanket, and several other things, and only three papers.  One was to the effect that a Mr. TWEEDIE had been in the Chronicle office, Harrismith, as compositor, in Mackay & Co.’s employ and was an efficient compositor, a steady, willing and obliging person;  the other, that a Mr. TWEEDIE and LLOYD had been fumigated, Geluk, 19th March 1883, and signed B. DE JOYING;  the other was of no importance at all.  We could see the poor fellow had been most brutally murdered.  He had evidently been asleep when the murderer must have sat on him, as there were no signs of any struggle having taken place at all.  He had a cut on the forehead, between the eyes, but only skin deep;  he had been stabbed in the right side of the mouth, and his throat to the left ear, and a small dessert knife left sticking in the throat.  It was a very common knife, and very blunt;  it was evidently the fellow to the fork we found in the hut.  Mr. HALL and I took everything we could find and made into a bundle, which the authorities got;  we took the body and buried it in a prospecting pit, which happened to be close by.  The authorities have gone out to examine the body, and I don’t envy them their job.  This man is TWEEDIE, as far as we can ascertain.”   Tuesday, July 29, 1884   DESTITUTE CHILD. NOTICE. WHEREAS Jonah LIKALAKALA, a Native Male Child. Aged about 3 years, has been left in a state of destitution with Gona LIGABYALA, a Native, residing in the Native Location, Queenstown, some time in January last,- Notice is hereby given that unless the said Jonah LIKALAKALA be claimed within six weeks from the date hereof, by some relative, fit, proper, and willing to maintain him, he will be apprenticed to the said Gona LIGABYALA, in terms of Section 7, of Act 15 of 1856, Cap. 3. Egbert GARCIA, Resident Magistrate. Resident Magistrate’s Office, Queenstown, 2nd July, 1884