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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1865

20 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Horrible Death of Three Gold-diggers From Thirst. (From the Peak Downs Telegram.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1865 · page 3

We have to-day to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who reported…

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Death of Sir Frederick Pottinger

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1865 · page 2

SIR FREDERICK POTTINGER, who it will be remembered by our readers, received a gun-shot wound, from the accidental discharge of a small pistol, which he carried in his waistcoat pocket…

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Death of Morgan, the Bushranger

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1865 · page 2

THIS notorious and blood-thirsty billion Morgan has at lost come to an untimely end. It appears from the information that has reached us that in one of his raids made on the Peechelba Station,…

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Beechworth. Death of the Bushranger Morgan Monday Evening

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1865 · page 2

MORGAN har been shot dead in Victoria. There is not the slightest doubt that Daniel Morgan, the bushranger and murderer, having crossed over, to Victoria, as he himself repeatedly said he would, has…

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Death of Morgan. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1865 · page 4

THE death of Morgan, cut off in the act of crime, and in the midst of his days, is a relief for which the colony has long looked. Had he been reserved for trial and public execution, we should probably…

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Arrival of the English Mail. English News to March 20Th. Capture of Wilmington and Charleston by the Federals. Failure of Peace Negotiations in America. Death of General Beauregard. Kentucky Refuses to Ratify the Slavery Abolition Bill. Fortification of the Canadian Frontier. Death of Cardinal Wiseman. at the East Indian Docks. Fall in the Price of Cotton. Opening of the Suez Canal. Suicide of to W[?]ley the Murderer. Russian E[?]croachments in India. (From the Herald.) Adelaide, Tuesday, 10 p.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1865 · page 2

THE steamer Wonga Wonga, Captain Walker, arrived at Glenelg Pier from the Sound this afternoon. The upward passage occupied ninety-three hours…

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Death & Funeral of Cardinal Wiseman

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1865 · page 4

THE long illness of Cardinal Wiseman has at length reached a fatal termination. He died on February 15th, at the comparatively early age of sixty-two. Nicholas Wiseman was the son of the late Mr…

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Latest Intelligence. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Sydney, Monday evening. Death of Ben Hall

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1865 · page 3

ANOTHER of the notorious gang of bushrangers infesting the Western districts has been killed; the police having encountered Ben Hall and his gang at Billibong Creek, twelve miles from Forbes on Friday…

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Death of the Bushranger Ben Hall

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1865 · page 3

BEN HALL, the bushranger, was shot on Friday morning at dawn of day by sub-inspector Davidson, sergeant Condell, and several troopers, on the Billibong Creek, about twelve miles from Forbes,…

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Death of Gilbert the Bushranger

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1865 · page 2

IN our Extraordinary, published on Wednesday last, We noticed the death of Gilbert the bushranger, from gunshots wounds inflicted whilst in an encounter with the police; we now add further…

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The Late Mr. Justice Milford

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1865 · page 3

THE death of Mr. Justice Milford was announced in our last issue. As his Honor had been for a considerable time ill, his decease was by no means unexpected. But his loss will not be felt the…

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Supreme Court, Sydney. Monday. (From the Herald.) the Late Mr. Justice Milford

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1865 · page 3

The Chief Justice, before entering on the business of the term, delivered—on behalf of himself and his learned colleague—the following address, in reference to the late Mr. Justice…

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Arrival of the English Mail. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Examiner Office, Saturday, noon. Assassination of the President of the United States Assassinator of President Lincoln Shot Dead. Johnstone President of United States. Defeat and Surrender of General Lee. Fall of Petersburg and Richmond. Death of the Czar Onvitze of Russia. Russian Secretary of Legation Assassinated at Paris. Epedemic Raging in Russia. Decline of Wool Market. Great Failures in England. Dr. Pritchard, of Glasgow Commited for Murder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1865 · page 3

BY the arrival of t he Peninsular and Oriental steamship Salsette, which was telegraphed at Adelaide, yesterday evening, we are in receipt of most important European…

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'Death of Dr. Macadam

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 September 1865 · page 3

The steamship Alhambra arrived from Melbourne on Sunday 3rd instant. The Hon. Johh Macadam, M.D., was a passenger for Dunedin. He was suffering from nervous…

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The Funeral

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1865 · page 2

On Saturday, at one o'clock, after the coroner's jury had been empanelled and viewed the bodies, they were interred in the Church of England cemetery, alongside each other, the coffins being…

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Death of Mr. D. H. Deniehy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1865 · page 3

DANIEL HENRY DENIEHY—poet, orator, statesman —one of the most accomplished and gifted men of his time—one of the brightest geniuses New South Wales has yet produced—has passed from amongst…

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Obituary

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1865 · page 2

General Sir G. Brown, Judge Haliburton (Sam Slick), Sir J. Palmer, General Sir G. Fergnson, Mrs. Thomas Moore, Sir H. Johnston Walsh, Westley Richards, Earl of Strathmore, and Rev, C…

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Death of Dr. Douglass

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1865 · page 3

THE inexorable King has withdrawn from mortal relations another of those few whose names connect the early stages of Australian colonisation with the present time. Dr. Douglass, of Douglass Park,…

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Obituary

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1865 · page 3

J. F. Herring, Lady Ragian, Countess Clare, Archdeacon Bartholomew, Admiral Thompson, Benjamin Oliver, Admiral Kitchen, General Sherwell, General Pooly…

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Alleged Murder of the Late Mr. Henry Kinder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1865 · page 2

THE charge of murder preferred against Henry Louis and Jane Bertrand, and Mary Ellen Kinder at the Water Police Court closed on Saturday. The case is a most extraordinary one, and excited…

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