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The history of old Durban and reminiscences of an emigrant of 1850
The history of old Durban and reminiscences of an emigrant of 1850 Author:George Russell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Persons having Property for disposal of the above kind will do well to register the same, as no charge will be made " for registration." " S. Benningfield, ... more »" Auctioneer and Land Agent." Two events of importance marked the year 1849—the death of Lieut.-Governor Martin T. West, on the 1st August, and the arrival on June llth of the Reverend William Henry Cynric Lloyd, M.A., who had transhipped at the Cape to the schooner flout/In, Captain Smerdon, to take up his appointment, under the Crown, of Colonial Chaplain, bestowed upon him bv Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in November, 1848. He elected to settle in Durban, where he also acted for a time as Military Chaplain. He was destined to spend his life in the Colony, less to the advantage of himself than to Church and State, and " the beggar at his gate." He died in 1881, aged 80, and it was said that he had baptised, married, and buried half the population of Durban. He was a Christian gentleman, genial, courteous, and popular, inseparably connected with the history of Durban, as I hope to show further on. CHAPTER IV. SECOND CLEARING. TI AVING now brought the history of Durban to a period --- when it became a township under the administration of British officials—to a time when the first European Immigration set in, and people began to qualify themselves as Colonists by taking up the land, and engaging in such occupations as their means or tastes allowed, their inexperience or dire necessities obliged, I am forced reluctantly, for the sake of the story, to introduce a few words of a personal nature, and parenthetically to strav away with my readers, that they may understand how I came to know all that I have here set down, and in order to satisfy them that this superstructure of Durban's History rest...« less