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Broken Hill & the Far West · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1890

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The Death of the Duke of Manchester

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 2

WE don't care a fig leaf for the strawberry leaf of a peer, and we chronicle the news of the death of Manchester, not because he belonged to the English…

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CABLEGRAMS. Death of the Duke of Manchester. LONDON, Sunday (midnight)

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 3

The death of the Duke of Manchester, of peritonitis, at Naples, is announced…

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Death of the Hon. David Buchanan

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 2

THE death is announced of the Honorable David Buchanan, M.L.C., of heart disease, at his residence, Sydney. He was apparently in excellent health…

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Death of a Chinese Diplomatist. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 April 1890 · page 3

The death is announced of the Marquis Tseng, late Chinese ambassador at London, Paris, and St. Petersburgb. The Marquis Tseng was born in 1837, and was…

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CABLEGRAMS. Death of an African Explorer. LONDON, Wednesday (midnight)

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 April 1890 · page 3

The death is announced of Mackey, the African explorer…

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The Latest. Death of John L. Sullivan. [By Cable.] London, Tuesday (midnight)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 3

Tt is r[?]mored that John L. Sullivan, the well-known pugilist, died suddenly, through breaking a blood vessel while engaged in a boxing match. The rumor…

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Death of a Great Bacehorse. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 2

Hermit, the celebrated English racehorse and stallion, arid sire of numerous Derby and other winners, is dead. Hermit was also himself a Derby winner, and…

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The Latest. Cablegrams. Death of a Poet. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 2

Edwin Waugh, the well-known Lancashire poet and author, died on Wednesday…

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Death of a Chemist. He Takes an Overdose While Insane. WILCANNIA, Monday, Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 3

An inquest was held-on Saturday before Mr. W. C. Rodgerson P.M., into the circumstances attending the death of Charles Glbson, proprietor of the…

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Death of a magistrate. ADELAIDE, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 3

Mr. W. R. Wigley, S.M., formerly. M.P. and Mayor of Glenelg, died at that town yesterday afternoon…

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Death of a Great Inventor. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 2

The death is announced of James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer…

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Death of a Journalist. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 May 1890 · page 3

Thadeus O'Kane, the well-known editor and proprietor of the Northern Miner, died at Ipswich on Saturday of asthma…

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Death of Captain Haynes. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 3

Captain Haynes, a large landholder at Colac, died yesterday…

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Death of an Old Identity. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 May 1890 · page 2

Captain James Hay died at Wallaroo yesterday. For more than 20 years he had been shipping agent for the Wallaroo Mines smelting works…

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Funeral of Mr. E. Formby

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 3

THE funeral of the Mr. E. Formby, late manager of the S.A. Brewing Company, took place this afternoon. Although Mr. Formby had been only a resident of…

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Death of a Great Painter. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 3

The death is announced of Mr. Briton Riviere, R.A., the distinguished animal painter, several of whose pictutes were exhibited in the British Art Gallery at the…

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Death of Mr. Crouch. HOBART, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 May 1890 · page 3

Thomas James Crouch, the father of the Temperance Alliance in Tasmania, and formerly sheriff of the colony, died suddenly yesterday…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 5 p.m. Death of Mr. Mullen. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 June 1890 · page 3

The death is announced of Mr. Samuel Mullen, the well-known bookseller of Collins-street, Melbourne (now Mullen and Melville), who was…

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The Bourke fatality. Death of the Second Victim. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) BOURKE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 3

The boy Alfred Fulton, who died yesterday from the effects of gunshot wounds, received on the previous day, has been buried in the same grave as the other…

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Death of an Old Identity. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 June 1890 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Brown, of the well-known Tuppal station, near Deniliquin, died in Melbourne on Tuesday evening. The deceased was everywhere respected…

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