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SERVICE SUSPENDED
Anglo - Boer War
Natal to Orange Free State
November 1899
Main feature
The Service Suspended mark was applied in Durban. It is also known to
have been struck in black.
Lord Milner , Govemor of Cape Colony, sent a telegram on the 12th October 1899 to the
Colonial Secretary in London: 'Postal arrangements with the Republics is now
interrupted ... '. The following day a notice to this effect was given to the public in Natal
and Cape Colony . On the 31st October 1899 British Post Office Notice No. 47 set out the
position .
Harrisburg was a District of Orange free state immediately to the west of Natal. 
