Tuesday, September 2, 184 [sic]   BIRTH,- At Panmure, on the 23rd Aug., the Wife of Mr. E.R. BRADFIELD of a Daughter.   MARRIED,- At All Saints’ Church, Dutoitspan, on 12th August, 1884 by the Rev. Canon GAUL, M.A., Edmund James WILLIAMS, only son of the lat Edmund WILLIAMS, Newport, Mon., England, to Mary Boyd FARREN, second daughter of the late William FARREN, Chemist, Ludgate Hill, London.   THE LATE REV. W.S. DEWSTOE.- In an article on the “Death roll” of Wesleyan ministers during the past year the Watchman has the following remarks on the Rev. W.S. DEWSTOE, who died at Green Bank Terrace, almost suddenly, in the early part of April last:- “In the death of William S. DEWSTOE, Methodist literature suffers a distinct loss.  His contributions to the Sunday School Teachers’ Magazine will be missed by many whom he instructed to the end that they might instruct others.  We can ill-afford to lose practised writers at this time, when the revival of Methodist letters is so marked.” – Mr. DEWSTOE was in his 48th year at the time of his death, and sudden removal was a severe loss to the Falmouth circuit, where his ministerial labours were greatly appreciated.  [Mr. DEWSTOE was formerly superintendent of the Queenstown Circuit and will be remembered by many in Queenstown. – E.D.F.P.]   The death is announced at the age of 56 of Mr. George WOOD jr. Of Grahamstown, from congestion of the brain.   DEATH OF MR. E. PARSONSON.-  The P.E. Telegraph says:- Intelligence was received in town yesterday of the death of Mr. E. PARSONSON, son of the late Rev. G. PARSONSON, of Lesseyton, near Queenstown.  Mr. PARSONSON was a clerk in the Standard Bank at Kimberley and was a young man of much promise.  He formerly resided in this town where he was a clerk in the firm of L. LIPPERT & Co.  While resident here he was identified with many good organizations, being secretary of the Sunday School Union and a prominent member of the Young Men’s Association.  Deceased was engaged to a young lady in this town, and was shortly to have been married.  His premature death is mourned by numerous friends.  [The late Mr. PARSONSON was a brother to the Rev. J.E. PARSONSON and to Mr. J.M. PARSONSON both of this town.]   Friday, September 5, 184   DEATH OF MR. W.A. RICHARDS.- A Cablegram on Monday last announced the death of apoplexy of Mr. W.A. RICHARDS one of the proprietors of the Journal and the Senior partner in the firm of W.A. RICHARDS & Co. Of Cape Town, the publishers of the Gazette.  The deceased gentlemen was also largely interested in other literary ventures in the Colony.  Mr. RICHARDS left here some short time since, in search of health, and letters had lately been received by his family stating that he had derived considerable benefit from his trip, the unexpected news of his death therefore falls heavier on them.   Tuesday, September 23, 1884   The sudden death is announced from the O.F.S. of Mr. Thomas WEBSTER which occurred at Table farm, Boshof, on 5th instant from heart disease.  The late Mr. WEBSTER who will be well remembered in this district was the son of Mr. Thomas WEBSTER one of the 1820 settters and ws born in December 1825.  For the eminent services which Mr. WEBSTER rendered during the Kafir War of 1851, he was rewarded by the first choice of a farm on the Eastern Frontier, and his selection rested on what is known as Bowkers Park.  A long obituary appears in the Friend of the Free State, which we regret want of space precludes us from responding.   Tuesday, September 30, 1884   BIRTH,- At Queenstown, on the 27th instant. The Wife of P. McGILLEWIE of a Son.   MARRIED, at St. Peter’s-on-Indwe, on 24th September, 1884, by the Rev. A.J. NEWTON, assisted by the Rev. C.F. PATTEN, W.C.A. SCHULTZ, of Bolotwa, son of the late Mr. John SCHULTZ, to Emily Christina, youngest daughter of Mr. Martin SCHULTZ of Santi,   Shocking Dynamite Accident. On Saturday afternoon a most shocking and fatal accident occurred in Dutoitspan Mine, which ought to serve as a serious warning to those employes who are we might almost say criminally careless in the indulgence of the habit of smoking, while engaged in the manipulation of explosives.  It seems that about the usual time when the blasters busy themselves in the preparation of their charges, a man named William Guy ROBERTS, employed as a miner by the Ne Plus Ultra company, was engaged in the same duty.  He was observed to have a pipe in his mouth, while fitting the detonator on to a section of fuse, and was standing near a tank containing a small quantity of dynamite.  Shortly afterwards a loud report, some time before the warning bell rang, caused considerable alarm and excitement in the main-street as well as among the employes in the mine.  When the smoke and dust cleared away from the spot where ROBERTS was last observed standing, he could not be seen anywhere and on a search being made, it was discovered that he had been blown literally into pieces, the fragments of his body being picked up in various parts of the mine.  Several natives were seriously injured and were taking to Hospital.  One or two white men working near the spot when the explosion occurred had a hairs-breadth escape.  It is surprising that a man of poor ROBERTS’ experience should have acted so recklessly as he seems to have done.  He was a Cornish miner, had been for some years in the employment of the Central Company, Kimberley, and from his great experience must have known the danger to which he was subjecting himself and others, by smoking while in such a dangerous proximity to any quantity of so powerful an explosive as dynamite... – Independent.