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- From Pg. 333 of Men Of The Times - Pioneers of the Transvaal and Glimpses of South Africa - The Transvaal Publishing Company Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode - His Majesty's Printers 1905:
'MR. CHARLES HELYAR SHORT was born at Tulbagh, Cape Colony, in 1870, and is a son of the late Mr. Samuel Short, who left Trinity College, Battersea, to take charge of the first of Cape Town's public schools, "Tot nut van't algemeen," an institution which has turned out some of the most famous men in South African history. Mr. C.H. Short was educated at Cape Town, the South African College being his Alma Mater, and he came to Johannesburg in 1888, when he immediately entered upon an interesting career of speculation. He is a member of the Stock Exchange, the managing director of the Colonial Land and Investment Company, Ltd., one of the executive committee of the Responsible Government party, an enthusiastic force in the Rand Ratepayers' Vigilance Association, vice president of the Braamfontein Ratepayers Association, and he belongs to the Australian Club. Mr. Short seriously and insistently manifests in numerous ways a jealous anxiety that the voice of the South-African-born should have attentive regard from administering representatives of the Crown and aspiring politicians. In Braamfontein, where he owns a beautiful suburban residence, and where he greatly assisted in founding the local branch of the Church of England, his advice is invited upon all questions of public importance, and accepted with confidence in its genuineness. On the outbreak of the war Mr. Short left Johannesburg, and became attached to the Political Intelligence Department of the Imperial Service, and in the capacity in which he served he quickly gained the high esteem of his superiors, and was frequently intrusted with history-making missions. On December 6th, 1900, he was specially deputed to attend the Worcester Conference, where he considerably added to his credit the esteem of the military and civil authorities, being specially intrusted with a command in the e4vent of imminent trouble. In the course of the last nine months of hostilities, when the invasion of Cape Colony was made by Generals Scheepers and Kritzinger, he was despatched to the Eastern Province as press censor and political intelligence officer.
A noteworthy incident in Mr. Short's career was his election in Cape Town, by the exiled Uitlanders, to the Refugee Committee, a position which he justified by his strenuous and appealing work in the interests of his fellow refugees, and which marked him out as a leader in the affairs of the people. Mr. Short is a stock and share broker, and has an office in Arcade Buildings, at the corner of President and Rissik Streets, and when the day's business is finished his interesting personality attracts many guests to an entertaining social table on Wanderers' View. at which Mrs. Short gracefully presides."
1905 Court case against Jan Daniel De Ville
1905 Court case against Edward Forrestal
1905 Court case against Lambert Henry Brinkman
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