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Broken Hill & the Far West · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1896

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Horrible Death of a Coolie. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1896 · page 2

The steamer Elamang, which has arrived from Fiji, brings intelligence of a horrible burning fatality on a plantation belonging to Messrs…

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Death of Monty Brown

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 2

NEWS is to hand that Mr. Mon[?]y Brown, a well-known theatrical agent and manager, died last week in the Jamestown Hospital. He left Broken…

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General Cable News. Death of an M. P. LONDON, Tuesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 January 1896 · page 2

The death of Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bart., Unionist Liberal M. P. for St. Pancras, is announced…

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Death of a Mining Manager

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 2

THE death is announced at his residence, Albert Park, Victoria, of Mr. Richard Parker. He was 65 years of age, and was a well-known and…

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Death of Mr, Langdon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 2

WHEN Captain Langdon, for several years manager of the Broken Hill Estended mine, proceeded, from the Barrier to Coolgardie the other day he…

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Death of Father Davern

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 January 1896 · page 4

THE sad news of the death of the Rev. P. R. Davern reached the Bishop of Wilcannia to-day. He died at Wilcannia this merning. He spent…

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The Oakleigh Tragedy. Death of One of the Children. Arrest of the Mother. [By Telegraph] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 January 1896 · page 4

Burnett Moylan, the little boy who was battered on the head with a hammer by his mother near Oakleigh yesterday evening, died in the Alfred…

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Death of Father Davern

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 1

THE sad news of the death of the Rev. P. R. Davern reached the Bishop of Wilcannia to-day. He died at Wilcannia this morning. He spent…

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Death of the Rev. Father Davern

Western Grazier · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 2

It is with very deep regret that we have to record the death from heat apoplexy of the Rev. Father Davern, which took place at his residence in Hood-street at about 2 o'clock…

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The Oakleigh Tragedy. Death of One of the Children. Arrest of the Mother. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 1

Burnett Moylan, the little boy who was battered on the head with a hammer by his mother near Oakleigh yesterday evening, died in the Alfred…

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General Cable News. Death of M. Floquet. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1896 · page 2

M. Charles Thomas Floquet, the French statesman, whose illness was reported on Thursday, has expired. M. Floquet, who belonged to the…

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The Heat Wave. The Local Records. Death of an Infant

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1896 · page 4

LAST night a southerly [?] [?] the atmosphere a little, but by the morning the [?] had shifted to the east, and the weather grew very warm…

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Death of Mr. G. C. Tompson. a Victim to Heat Apoplexy. [By Telegraph.] Bourke

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1896 · page 2

News has been received here of the death of Mr. G. C. Tompson, chairman of the Land Board for the Bourke Land District. Death was due to heat…

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General Cable News. Death of Prince Battenberg. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 January 1896 · page 2

Prince Henry of Battenberg, son-in-law of the Queen, who was stricken with fever in West Africa, whither he had gone to join the Ashantee…

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Death of Bishop Luck. [By Telegraph.] Auckland

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 2

Dr. John Edmund Luck, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is dead He was appointed in 1882…

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The Death of Prince Henry. a Mourning Court. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 2

Prince Henry of Battenbarg, who contracted fever while engaged in the Coomassie campaign, and whose death at sea has been reported, was at the…

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Obituary. Death of Prince Henry of Battenberg. London, January 22

Western Grazier · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 2

Prince Henry of Battonberg, who accompanied the British expedition to Ashan[?] is dead. JANUARY 23…

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The Death of Mr. G. C. Tompson

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 2

Wednesday's Western Grazier (Wilcannia) says:—Everyone was greatly shocked last night when it became known that Mr. G. C. Tompson, chairman of the Bourke Land…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. Late Cable News. The Death of Prince Henry. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 4

The body of Prince Henry of Battenberg will arrive in England in February and will be accorded a military funeal…

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The Death of Prince Henry. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 January 1896 · page 2

The Australian Agents-General have written to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Chamberlain) assuring him of the heartfelt sympathy of the colonies with…

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