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PIETERMARITZBURG , the See also: capital of See also:Natal, situated in 29° 46' S., 30° 13' E., 45 M. in a See also:direct See also:line (71 by See also:rail) W.N.W. of See also:Durban. It lies, 2200 ft. above the See also:sea, See also:north of the See also:river Umsunduzi, and is surrounded by wooded hills. Of these the See also:Town See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:flat-topped, rises 1600 ft. above the town. Pop. (1904), 31,119, of whom 15,087 were whites, 10,752 See also:Kaffirs, and 5280 See also:Indians. The town is laid out on the usual Dutch See also:South See also:African See also:plan—in rectangular blocks with a central See also:market square. The public buildings include the legislative See also:council See also:chambers and the legislative See also:assembly buildings, See also:government See also:house, the government offices, See also:college, See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and market buildings. The town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, a See also:fine See also:building in a modified See also:Renaissance See also:style (characteristic of the See also:majority of the other public buildings), has a lofty See also:tower. It was completed in 1901, and replaces a building destroyed by See also:fire in 1898. St Saviour's is the See also:cathedral See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the See also:Anglican community. The headquarters of the Dutch Reformed Church are also in the town. There are monuments of See also:Queen See also:Victoria and See also:Sir See also:Theophilus See also:Shepstone, and various See also:war memorials—one commemorating those who See also:fell in See also:Zululand in 1879, and another those who lost their lives in the See also:Boer War 1899–1902. A large See also: park and botanical gardens add to the attractions of the town. A favourite mode of See also:conveyance is by rickshaw. The See also:climate is healthy and agreeable, the mean See also:annual temperature being 65° F. (55° in See also:June, 71° in See also:February). The rainfall is about 38 in. a See also:year, chiefly in the summer months (Oct.–See also:Mar.), when the See also:heat is tempered by violent thunderstorms.
Pietermaritzburg was founded See also:early in 1839 by the newly-arrived Dutch settlers in Natal, and its name commemorates two of their leaders—Piet Retief and Gerrit Maritz. From the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of its See also:establishment it was the seat of the Volksraad of the Natal Boers, and on the submission of the Boers to the See also:British in 1842 Maritzburg (as it is usually called) became the capital of the See also:country. It was given a municipal See also:board in 1848, and in 1854 was incorporated as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough. Railway connexion with Durban was made in 188o, and in 1895 the line was extended to See also:Johannesburg. The borough covers 44 sq. m. and includes numerous attractive suburbs. The rateable value is about £4,000,000. Various See also:industries are carried on, including See also:brick-making, tanning, See also:brewing, and See also:cart and See also:wagon building.
See J. F. See also: Ingram, The See also:Story of an African See also:City (Maritzburg, 1898).
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