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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1878

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Death of Mr. William Ostler of Collie

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 2

Last week we received a report from Collie that Mr. W. Ostler of Dick's Camp had met with a serious accident which resulted in his death. Thinking at…

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Death of Dr. Temple

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will, we are sure, be sincerely grieved to learn of the untimely death of an another old and highly respected resident of Young, Dr. Charles…

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The Late Mr T. S. Mort

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 6

MR MORT was born and educated in Manchester, England, and was brought up to depend upon his own exertions from his youth. while still a young man, full of energy and the sprit of enterprise, the…

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Death of Dr. Temple

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 6

Our readers will, we are sure, be sincerely grieved to learn of the untimely death of another old and highly-respected resident of Young, Dr. Charles Temple. For the last two…

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Death of Earl Russell

The Burrowa News · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 2

THE death of the great English ex-Minister aud statesman, Earl Russell, whose name for half a century past has been familiar aa a household word to…

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Death of Earl Russell. Loudon, May 28

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 2

‘An official announcement has been made in London to-day of the death of Earl Russell…

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The Death of Earl Russell

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 4

A TELEGRAM which arrived at an early hour on Tuesday morning intimates that Earl Russell, the celebrated ex-minister and statesman, is dead. Previous telegrams…

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The Death of Earl Russell, (From the Fcho)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 4

A TELEGRAM which arrived at an early hour on Thursday morning intimated that Earl Russell, the celebrated ex-minister and statesman, was dead. Frevious telegrams…

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Select Poetry. Lament of the Prince of Choshin on the Death of His Wife. From the Japanese

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 4

Waking at midnight when the world is still, Alone I seem to drift upon a tide Of dreary waters, while the dying moon Sinks slowly, gathering all her tender rays,…

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Death of Mr. Charles Mathews. London, June 24

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 June 1878 · page 2

Charles James Mathews, the celebrated [?]lian, died on the night of the 22nd instant, aged 74…

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Death of the Duchess of Argyll

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 July 1878 · page 7

Few indeed by the accidents of birth and marriage have been surrounded by more numerous or illustrious kinsfolk, and still fewer have won to themselves a greater…

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Death of Cardinal Franchi. Rome, August 1

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 August 1878 · page 2

The Italian Cardinal Franchi died today…

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Death of the Rev. John Dunmore Lang. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 7

ONE of the eldest and most widely respected colonists, the Rev. John Dunmore Lang, died at an early hour on Thursday morning, at the ripe old age of 79 years…

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Death of the Rev. John Dunmore Lang

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 13 August 1878 · page 4

ONE of the oldest and most widely respected colonists, the Rev. John Dunmore Laug, died at an early hour this (Thursday) .morning, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine years…

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Funeral of the Rev. Dr. Lang. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 August 1878 · page 6

THE mortal remains of the late Rev. John Dunmore Lang, D.D., were buried in the Devonshire-street cemetery on Saturday, in the presence of an immense concourse of…

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The Wreck of the Dunbar. a Poem by the Late Mr. Samuel Bennett

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 3

Her broad wing spreading to the breeze, she sailed in all her pride For the shores of far Australia -- o'er the waste of waters wide; France on her weather quarter -- on her lee our father-land…

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Death and Funeral of the Great Scottish Giant

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 7

MR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, landlord of the Duke of Wellington public-house, High Bridge, Newcastle, and widely known as the Scottish Giant, died at that…

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Funeral of the Late Dr. Wm. Foxton Hayley, J.p., M.r.c.s

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 September 1878 · page 3

YESTERDAY at about two o’clock an immense concourse of people collected in Auburn-street, in the vicinity of the late Dr. Hayley’s residence, for the purpose of paying the last…

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Obituary

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 2

IT is our mournful task to record the demise of Dr. Hayley. At the time we last wrote, but faint hopes of his recovery could be entertained, and the worst apprehensions were verified when the deceased…

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The Late Mr. J. P. Ritchie

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 September 1878 · page 2

WITH feelings of the most sincere regret we have to record the death, on last Monday evening, at his residence in North Yass, of Mr. James P. Ritchie, a gentleman who from…

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