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Broken Hill & the Far West · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1892

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Death of Mr. G. C. Knight. [By Telegraph.] Port Darwin

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 3

Mr. G. C. Knight, Government Resident in the Northern Territory, has died somewhat unexpectedly. (Mr. Knight has been for many years identified with…

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Nuntherungie. Death of a Pioneer

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 January 1892 · page 4

A Nuntherungie correspondent writes, under date January 8:—A public meeting was held here to night to discuss the water question. It was decided to accept…

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The Royal Death. Details of the Event. the Funeral Arrangements. [By Cable] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 January 1892 · page 2

Further details in regard to the Duke of Clarence have been published. A reassuring message was sent from Sandringham to the Queen at midnight on…

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Death of Sir John Hay. President of the Legislative Council. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 3

Sir John Hay, K.C M.G., President of the Legislative Council, who has long been ailing, died at 3 o'clock to-day. The funeral will take place to-morrow…

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General Cable News. the Prince[?]s Funeral. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 2

The Prince of Wales has asked Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, to convey to the people of the colony his heartfelt thanks for their…

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2nd EDITION Miner office, 6 p.m. the Duke's Funeral. [By Cable.] London, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 3

Enormous crowds watched the funeral procession from Sandringham. The remains were carried on a gun-carriage to Wolverton Railway Staion, the Prince of…

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General Cable News. the Prince's Funeral. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1892 · page 2

The Queen sent a splendid wreath for the co[?] of the Duke of Clarence "as a mark of the tenderest affection of his devoted and sorrowing grandmother."…

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Cardinal Manning. the Funeral Ceremonies. Cardinal Moran Named As Successor. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 2

The ceremonies attending the interment of Cardinal Manning included a requiem mass at Brompton Oratory, where the body was laid in state. Ten thousand…

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2nd EDITION Miner Office, 6 p.m. Death of Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. [By Cable.] London, Monday Morning. The Rev.C. H. Spurgeon gradually sank, and died at an early hour this morning

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 February 1892 · page 3

The Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was perhaps the best known preacher throughout the English speaking world. His sermons have been printed in almost…

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Spurgeons Funeral. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 2

The interment of the remains of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon in the Norwood cemetery was an imposing ceremony. The procession contained over…

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Death of a Liberal M.P. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 February 1892 · page 2

Mr. Henry Wardle, Gladstonian Liberal, member for the Southern division of Derbyshire, is dead, aged 60 years…

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Death of Mr. Purcell

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 2

MR. JAMES PURCELL, who captained the victorious Stephon's Creek tug-of-war team, and who met with an accident while returning from the Rink to…

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Death of Mr. Weatherall

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 February 1892 · page 2

MR. HERBERT WEATHERALL, a younger brother of the Broken Hill postmaster, died at an early hour this, morning, at the Broken Hill hospital, of typhoid…

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Death of a Prisoner

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1892 · page 2

A PRISONER named William M'Kernon, who was yesterday sent to the cells for drunkenness, was found dead in his cell early this morning. The Coroner (Mr…

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Death of Mr. Roberts

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 3

MR. A. [?] [?] managing clerk for Mr. R. B. Pell, who has been but a week confined to his room, at the Wentworth Hotel, suffering from an attack of…

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Death of an Ex-speaker. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 March 1892 · page 2

The death is announced of Henry Bouverie W. Brand, G.O.B., first Viscount Hampden, at the age of 78. He was Speaker of the House of Commons as Sir…

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Death of Walt Whitman. London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 29 March 1892 · page 3

The death is announced of Walt Whitman, the American poet, who has been gradually sinking for some time, at the age of 73…

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Death of John Woods, M.L.A. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 4

Mr. John Woods, the well-known politician, who has for many years sat in the Victorian Assembly for Stawell, and who has taken much interest in the…

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General Cable New. Obituary. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 2

The death is announced of the Rev. Henry Allon, Congregational minister, and Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the novelist…

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Death of "Black Douglass." [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 2

"Black Douglass," who was a well-known bushranger in the early fifties, has died in the Bendigo hospital, after a long illness, at nearly 70 years of…

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