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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1895

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Death of His Excellency Sir Robert Duff

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 5

SYDNEY, FRIDAY 4.21 P.M.—Governor Duff returned to Sydney from Hobart early this morning. His Excellency is in an extremely prostrate condition, and was carried out of…

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Death of the Governor. the Funeral

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1895 · page 5

SYDNEY, MONDAY.—The national tribute to the memory of Sir Robert Duff culminated yesterday. The funeral was unequalled in the colony for solemnity and…

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Political & Social Notes. Death of the Governor

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1895 · page 4

SIR ROBERT DUFF is dead. He was the first New South Wales Governor who died during the occupancy of his office. Liver complaint killed him, as it has killed…

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Sir Robert Duff's Funeral a National Ceremony. a Great Military Display. Abridged From the "Daily Telegraph."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

THE national tribute to the memory of Sir Robert Duff has lacked neither the form nor the spirit of representativeness. The city began its Saturday in mourning, with flags…

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A Farmer and his Funeral

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 2

AN amusing will has been deposited for record in the books of the Aberdeen Sheriff Court. lt is that of an Aberdeenshire farmer who died…

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Death of the Hon. R. B. Smith

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1895 · page 3

IN the death of the Hon Robert Burdett Smith, O.M.G., M.L.0., which occurred on Tuesday, a figure for many years familiar in the political and public life of the colony…

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Death of a Centenarian

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 August 1895 · page 8

REFERRING to the death of Mrs. M'Queen, the Maitland Mercury says: She was born in the Isle of Skye about the end of last entury. In early womanhood she married…

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