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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1872

9 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Death of Mr. W. Keene

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1872 · page 4

THE death of Mr. W. Keene, F.G.S., a man well-known all over the world for his worth and talents, has occasioned a feeling of sorrowful regret amongst a very wide circle of…

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Death of Mrs. Christian Whereat by Poisoning. (From the Tenterfield Star.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1872 · page 5

WE are called upon to record the melancholy death of two residents of our town, since our last issue—one (Mrs. William Brown) being cut off from this life during a painful case of childbirth, while Mrs. Whereat (the wife of Mr. E. R. Whereat),…

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Wreck of the Steamer Clarence.— Death of a Passenger. (From the Macleay Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1872 · page 4

ON Sunday, Senior Constable Bennett and several of the townsfolk started from Port Macquarie for the scene of the wreck, and during the week several persons from Kempsey have visited the place. On…

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Death of a Sydney Notoriety

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1872 · page 2

MRS. BOULANGER, whose remarkable carear in the City of Sydney and on the Clarence, had become a matter of notoriety, and whose recent application to the Supreme Court to take her alleged husband out of the custody of his relatives will be well…

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Melancholy and Fatal Accident. Death of Mr. Norman M'leod Cowan

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 August 1872 · page 2

WE are this week called upon to record a fatal and melancholy accident, which we regret to state, has removed from our midst an old and much respected resident—Mr. NORMAN M'LEOD COWAN—of South…

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Public Funeral in Honor of Mr. Wentworth. Sir J. Martin's Speech in the Assembly. (From the Town and Country Journal.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 August 1872 · page 3

IN the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales on Tuesday, August 6th. Sir J. MARTIN, amid loud cheers from both sides of the House, moved the following resolutions:—"1. That…

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Death of the Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1872 · page 4

THE Rev. Dr. NORMAN MACLEOD, of the Barony parish, Glasgow, died suddenly on June 10th. For some time past the doctor had been complaining, but his illness only assumed a serious form, within the last…

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The Late Mr. Kraegen of the Overland Telegraph Party

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1872 · page 3

IT is stated in the Wagga Wagga Advertiser that a subscription is on foot, the object of which is to make provision for the maintenance and education of three young children,…

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Death of an Old Tasmanian Journalist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1872 · page 2

THE following narrative, which we extract chiefly from the Hobart Town Mercury, of 6th instant, will be read with considerable interest by many besides those immediately…

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