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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Weddings

Weddings, 1882

3 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

A Chinese Girl's Wedding

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1882 · page 4

THE Chinese girl who has poor parents leads the degraded life of a slave; no outdoor labour is too long or too hard for her, no treatment too bad, no punishment too severe. If her parents are…

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Kaffir Weddings

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 6

If we remember rightly, a South African traveller once traced a resemblance in many leading characteristics between the Irish and the Kallirs. Both are light hearted, both are more fund of play than work,…

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A Queensland Wedding

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 6

I LATELY mentioned a gentleman (says "Ægles" of the Australasian) who held a plurality of incongruous Government offices in a remote part of Queensland. There being no clergyman…

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