The Table Bay Harbour Board acquires a single broad-gauge locomotive, builder or appearance unknown, for excavation and breakwater construction work.[3]
Births
24 July - Percy FitzPatrick, author, politician, mining financier and fruit industry pioneer. (d. 1931)
27 September – Louis Botha, Boer general and politician. (d. 1919)
^Stormvoël van die Noorde by O JO Ferreira; Jan Viljoen – 'n Transvaalse Wesgrenspionier (unpublished MA dissertation); documents and notes from the Jack Seale collection.
^Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 181, ref. no. 200954-13