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

Obituaries & funerals, 1902

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The Late Mr, Rhodes. LONDON

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 April 1902 · page 3

The late Mr. Rgodes’ principal medical attenddant and warm personal friend, Dr. Leander St. Jameson, has arranged to convey his dead leader’s body to Rhodesia, for interment, in…

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The Death of Mr. Rhodes

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 2 April 1902 · page 2

Mr. Rhodes has died at an early ago, comparatively, and there passes from the stage whereon the great game of empire-making is played one…

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Obituary. Mr. William Fitzgibbon, Ætat 46

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 April 1902 · page 2

DIED at his residence, I[?]eld, yesterday, after a brief illness, the cause of death being pneumonia. He was the youngest son of the late Mr. William Fitztgibbon, an old…

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Death of Cecil Rhodes. Quiet and Painless. Result of Heart Failure. London, Wednesday Evening

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 April 1902 · page 4

Mr. Rhodes succumbed to-day at Capetown to the illness—angina pectoris, with complications—from which he has been suffering for some time past. He was in his,…

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The Late Mr. Rhodes. London, March 30

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 2

THE "Daily Mail" says that Mr. Rhodes has bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to a Pan Britannic scheme of education…

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Death of Two Youths

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 1

Wagga, Sunday.—A drowning accident occurred here thin afternoon. Two brothers—H. and J Hornby—the sons of a resident, aged respectively 13 and 11 years, went to bathe in the river at…

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Death of Mr. Cecil Rhodes. London, March 27

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 4

THE death is announced of Mr. Cecil Rhodes of South Africa, aged 48 years. Mr. Rhodes slept quietly yesterday…

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Death of Mr. Cecil, Rhodes

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 2

THE death of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, aged 48 year, was announced last week. Death was due to extra[?]e weakness resulting from two attacks of heart…

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The Late Mr. Rhodes. London, April 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 4

The remains of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes will, in conformity with his wish, be interred on April 10 on a hill in the Matoppo range, Rhodesia, over-looking the scene of deceased's interview with the…

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The Death of Gordon

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 6

An appendix in Mr. Charles Neufeld's book, " A Prisoner of the Khalifa," gives an account of General Gordon's death from the General's head kavass, Kha[?]ll Aga, the…

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Cable News. the Late Mr. Rhodes. London, April 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 2

The funeral of Mr. Cecil Rhodes at Capetown yesterday evoked unparalleled manifestations of grief. Troops lined the route to the Cathedral,…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 April 1902 · page 2

MRS. MARY ANN TECHIN, proprietress of the Yass and Collector Inn, Yarra, died at her residences at one o'clock this morning, aged seventy-five years. She had been ailing for…

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The Late Mr. Rhodes. London, April 4

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

THE funeral of Mr. Cecil Rhodes at Capetown yesterday evoked unparalleled manifestations of grief. Troops lined the route…

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Death of Mrs. Tuchin

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 4

A very old resident of Yarra, in the person of Mrs. Tuchin, died yesterday morning from senile decay at the age of 73 years. The deceased, who was the relict of the late…

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The Late Mr. Cecil Rhodes. His Will. London, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 4

Particulars of the will of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes have been published. The will is dated July 1, 1899, and codicils, which relate to family and German bequests, are…

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Death of Mr. E. J. Maloney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

Mr. Edward James Maloney, a former resident of this city, and well known in railway and tramway circles, died at Botany on Friday morning last from typhoid fever. He…

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A Queensland Outrage. Tragic Death of a Young Girl. in a Brisbane Suburb

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

Brisbane, Friday.—A shocking case of outrage and murder in one of the outlying suburbs of Brisbane was last night reported to the police. The victim…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 2

Mr. Edward James Maloney, (36), a former resident of Goulburn, and well known in railway and tramway circles, died at Botany on Friday morning from typhoid…

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Late Mr. Cecil Rhodes. London, April 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 2

It is believed that the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes appointed Lord Rosebery, Earl Grey, Lord Milner, Dr. Jameson, Messrs. Alfred Belt, L. Mitchell, and Hawksley as trustees of the remainder of his…

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The Late Mr. Cecil Rhodes. London, April 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 4

The German Emperor and President Roosevelt are delighted at Mr. Rhodes' bequests, and they have intimated their warm appreciation of the legacies…

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