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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Weddings

Weddings, 1875

7 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

An Aboriginal Royal Wedding

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1875 · page 7

AT Boorkooyanna, Point Pierce the mission station of the Yorke's Peninsula Aborigines Friends' Association, a marriage in "high life" has been celebrated with unusual…

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Strange Adventure at a Miner's Wedding

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1875 · page 4

FOR some time after the kicking outrage in Tithebarn-street, Liverpool, which resulted in the death of a young man named Morgan, the police were unable to obtain any…

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Correspondence. Wedding Bells. (Suggested by a Local Incident.)

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 April 1875 · page 3

Startling the car with their jubilant voices-- Silvery tones! List what they tell! "A heart with a heart in marriage rejoices," And the theme finds voice in the bell!…

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A Burglary and a Dry Wedding

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 2

Two young fellows, about nineteen or twenty years of ago named David Cleary and James Millard (the latter of whom is already committed for trial on charges of burglary), were…

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Wedding in Borneo

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 8

WEDDING IN BORNEO.— On the wedding day the bride and bridegroom are brought from opposite ends of the village to the spot where the ceremony is to be performed…

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Amusing. a Danbury Man at a Parisian Wedding

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

I TOOK a seat up a seat at the front : the party came down the middle aisle, and took position inside the altar rail. The crowd [?]ged in until every seat was filled, and the…

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Wedding Oratory

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 7

A WEAK-MINDED inquirer in a recent issue of this journal asked the editor to recommend a book to him that would give a good idea of the sort of speeches that were…

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