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Broken Hill & the Far West · Weddings

Weddings, 1898

14 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers

The Shooting at a Malay Wedding. Bochoo Arrested. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 2

A telegram from Thursday Island states that Bochoo, the Malay who recently indulged in promiscuous ehcoting at a Malay wedding, seriously…

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A Wedding Bed of Ice. Russian Barbarity to Roman Catholics

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 3

DURING the reign of Tsaritza Aane, who died in 1740, the conditions of life can be surmised, to some extent, by the following:— "Perhaps the real barbarism of an Oriental…

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Strange Shooting Accident. a Wedding Interrupted. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 March 1898 · page 2

A lad named Bertie Douglas was toying with a saloon rifle at Malvern yesterday afternoon, the weapon being loaded, when the charge exploded, the bullet entering the…

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Welsh Wedding Customs. Seizure of Dynamite

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 March 1898 · page 3

FOR many years past it has been the custom throughout North Wales to signalise local weddings by firing gunpowder or dynamite, in the nature of a…

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Chief Justice Wat's Wedding. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 April 1898 · page 1

Owing to the secret having leaked out, Chief Justice Way altered the place of his marriage from Hahndorf to the residence of his sister, Mrs. Beach, of Audley House,…

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A Double Wedding

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 April 1898 · page 3

A PLEASING ceremony took place at the Westleyan Church, South Broken Hill, on Wednesday last, the Occasion being the celebration of the nuptials of two daughters of…

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A Jewish Wedding

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 3

THE Ballarat Star of May 14 contains a column report o[?] the marriage of Hannah Bernstein, of Ballarat East, and Bernard Stone, of Broken Hill. " It was one of the…

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A Triple Wedding

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 June 1898 · page 3

A TRIPLE wedding took place in the Roman Catholic Church the other evening, the parties being Mr. J. Long (son of the late Mr. G. Long, of Broken Hill) to Miss M. Schultz (of…

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A Londoner's Marriage-day Trials. Experiences of a Wedding Coach

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 3

DEPUTY-JUDGE PITT-LEWIS, Q.C., had before him on a recent Monday the case of Duplain v. Huntley, an action in which the plaintiff, a livery stable-keeper,'claimed 15[?]…

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A Society Wedding. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 August 1898 · page 4

Miss Sylvia Madden, daughter of the ActingGoveruor, is to be married to-morrow to Captain Vallange, A.D.C. The event is causing quite a flutter among society ladies…

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A Wedding in Cuba

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 August 1898 · page 3

To such extremes is etiquette carried in Cuba that the period of courtship, which in most countries is one of unalloyed pleasure, is in this…

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A Wedding in Cuba

Western Grazier · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 3

To such extremes is etiquette carried in Cuba that the period of courtship, which in most conuntries is one of unalloyed pleasure, is in this distracted…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on his Wedding Eve. AUCKLAND

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 September 1898 · page 2

Thomas Plate was getting through a wire fence at Queenstown Gorge when he was killed by his gun exploding. [?]ased was to have been marrie[?] to-day…

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A Society Wedding. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 2

The Hon. Walter Fitz Uryan, son and heir of Lord Dynevor, of Wales, has been married to Lady Margaret Villiers, eldest daughter of the Earl…

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