Passenger arrivals: the Arab Oct 1880

The Natal Witness Oct 16 1880 reports on the arrival at the Cape of Union R.M.S. Arab*

The "Times" on Basutoland
A Land-slip at Bengal.
Death of Grace, The Cricketer
(Per Webster's Agency)

Cape Town, Oct 15, 11.13 a.m.
The Arab arrived this morning.

The London Times considers the position in Basutoland very grave, and adds: - "It is of course morally impossible that were Cape forces unable to quell a serious rising we could tolerate the serious blow to our prestige of allowing any sort of victory to the Basutos, and were the war protracted and expensive a burden would be imposed on the English Treasury. No pressure that can properly be put upon the Cape Government in the cause of moderation will be deemed unduly strong."

A land-slip has occurred at Nainatal, Bengal, carrying away several houses, and killing and injuring a large number of Europeans.

Nothing important from Afghanistan, General Roberts is at Quetta.

Mr G.F. Grace, the cricketer, is dead.

PASSENGERS for Natal per Arab:
Messrs
Hall
Griffin
Crossley
Cottam
Beningfield
Jester
Driver
Moffat
Simpson
Dean
Leyland
Sink
Pratt
Wotherspoon (error for Witherspoon?)
Wotherspoon junior
Miles
Lloyd
Fitz-Harris
Bijdawell
Diehl
Samtam
Peck
Rossier
Nedley
Jurnan
Aitken
Mistresses
Griffin and family
Brierley
Beningfield
Driver
Moffat and family
Pratt
Bijdawell
Master Bijdawell
the Misses
Brierley
Pratt
Lloyd

Conway Castle expected to-morrow.
PASSENGERS for Natal:
Messrs
Sewell
Iken
Dilner
Glover
Colonel Winsloe
Messrs
Williamson
White
Wotherspoon
Laing
Kynock
Phillips
Alexander
Hackland
Wylie
Flett
Clark
Spence
Potts
King
Harlow
Fluckell
Price
Robinson
Lewis
Kensman
Campbell
Mistresses
Cerets
Broome
Flete
Clark
Robinson and family
Lewis and family
Kensman and family
the Misses
Leathern (2)
Risely
Yorke
Flower

*The Arab, built 1879 by J and G Thompson, Glasgow, 3192 t, had only three years in the mail service; in 1882 she became a troop carrier for campaign against Arabi Pasha; in 1885 after General Gordon's death she went on the expedition to Suakin, and became HQ ship for the Naval Transport Staff. At the conclusion of the Sudanese War, the Arab returned to Sydney Australia troops of the volunteer expeditionary force. In December 1891 she inaugurated the Union Company's service from the Cape to Mauritius, continuing to run as an intermediate steamer until the end of the century. Early in 1900 she went to the shipbreakers.