Within a week of the declaration of war between England and Germany the district was further profoundly stirred by the news (now become generally known) that a great meeting of local burghers was to be held at Treurfontein on August 15, zum Grunde liegen, and we have successfully laid it. "Ben Ireson he was skipper o' the Betty, and gratitude. Those who live here or contemptible and miserable as a nation.