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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1859

8 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Poetry. on the Death of a Friend

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1859 · page 3

"Thou wilt not leave us in the dust; "Thou madest man, he knows not why; "He thinks he was not made to die: "And Thou hast made him—Thou art just."…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, April 2, 1859 Death of Mr. Robert Campbell

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1859 · page 2

THE following announcement, made in the Herald of Thursday, will have been perused by our readers with sincere sorrow:- "Our readers will pirceive from the Parliamentary…

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Funeral of the Hon. Robert Campbell. (From a Government Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday, 6th April.) Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 6th April, 1859

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1859 · page 6

His Excellency the Governor-General, with feelings of regret, announces to the public the decease, on the 30th ultimo, of the Honorable Robert Campbell, Esquire, Colonial Treasurer, and Secretary for Finance and Trade…

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The Funeral of the Late Hon. Robert Campbell. (From the Herald, March 9.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1859 · page 2

This melancholy event, which will be regarded by many of our fellow citizens in the light oF a great social bereavement, took place yesterday at Parramatta in the presence of some five or six thousand colonists. Never, we believe, in the annals of…

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Poetry. on the Death of the Rev. G. K. RUSDEN, M.A., Aged 73

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1859 · page 3

The honor'd Fastor, ripe in years. Hath gone to his eternal rest- Hath left this vale of "sings and tears," To live " [?] the mansions of the blest."…

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Supplement to the Maitland Mercury. [?] on the Death of the Late Hon. Robert Campbell, Esq

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1859 · page 6

The good man's gone, Australia's true born son Has pass'd from this uncharitable earth. The battle's fought, the victory is won; Moura him, Australia, for his sterling worth…

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The Late Murderous Attack by Chinese Death of the Victim. (From the Bendigo Mercury, of June 7.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1859 · page 3

The unfortunate man, M'Elligott, so brutally set upon by the Chinese, in his store, at Ironbark Gally, never rallied since his maimed arm was taken off on Sunday last, and expired yesterday, about six o'olook a.m…

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Poetry. on the Death of the King of Naples

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1859 · page 4

Thy eclipse is come at last. Bomba[?]—What to thee is all the past Of this unreal life? Thou hast had thy regal day…

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