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Obituaries & funerals, 1865

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Horrible Death of Three Gold Diggers From Thirst. (From the Peak Downs Telegram, December 20.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 3

We have to-day to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who reported the…

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Death of the Bushranger Morgan. (From the Herald's telegrams.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1865 · page 2

Beechworth, Monday evening.—Morgan has been shot dead in Victoria. There is not the slightest doubt that Daniel Morgan, the bushranger and murderer, having crossed over to Victoria, as he himself repeatedly said he…

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Maitland Mercury. Thursday, April 13, 1865. the Death of Morgan

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1865 · page 2

THE most murderous of the bushrangers has gone to his account. However widely extended may be the sympathy which the others have won amongst the loose-moraled young men of…

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Death and Funeral of Cardinal Wiseman. (From the Home News, Feb. 27.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1865 · page 3

The long illness of Cardinal Wiseman has at length reached a fatal termination. He died on February 15th, at the comparatively early age of sixty-two. Nicholas Wiseman was the son of the late Mr. James…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 13, 1865. the Death of Hall

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1865 · page 2

THERE is a certain class of transactions the bare narration of which seems to render comment objectionable, and in reference to which the homely proverb is applicable: "The least said,…

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Death of Gilbert, the Bushranger. (Telegram from the S. M. Herald.) Yass, Saturday, 8.5 p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1865 · page 2

Trooper Bright of the Binalong police arrived in Yass this evening, and states that senior constable Hales and three troopers, from information they received, proceeded from Binalong in the direction of one…

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The Death of Gilbert. Further Particulars. (Telegram to the S. M. Herald.) Yass, Monday evening

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1865 · page 2

On Thursday night a horse was stolen out of a paddock at Murrumburrah, of which no particulars could be ascertained till about eleven o'clock on Friday morning, when a gentleman named Furlonge, who was travelling with…

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Original Correspondence. the Death of Hall. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1865 · page 3

SIR—I admire the manly, the Christian, and withal discriminating and moderate, tone of your leading article on the death of Ben Hall. It is necessary to notice the extenuating circumstances that attach to his character…

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Melancholy Death of Me. Charles A. Callaghan

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1865 · page 2

The shocking accident which resulted in the almost instantaneous death of Mr. Charles A. Callaghan, eldest son of Mr. John Callaghan, and which was briefly allnded to in our last issue, caused a wide-spread feeling of…

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The Late Mr. Justice Milford. (From Monday's Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1865 · page 3

The daath of Mr. Justice Milford was announoed in our last issue. As his Honor had been for a considerable time ill, his decease was by no means unexpected. But his loss will not be felt the less severely, either by…

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Original Poetry. Dirge on the Death of Mr. C. Callaghan

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1865 · page 5

Who was killed by a fall from his horse on 24th May, the Queen's Birthday, at the races near Maitland. Composed on the day of his funeral—27th May, 1865. May his soul rest in peace above —…

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Supreme Court.—monday. (From the S. M. Herald.) First Day of Second Term, 1865. the Late Mr Justice Milford

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 June 1865 · page 2

The Chief Justice, before entering on the business of the term, delivered—on behalf of himself and his learned colleague—the following address, in referenoe to the late Mr. Justice Milford:—…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1865 · page 2

General R. Andree, Lady Vaughan, Rear-Admiral Henderson, Sir David Roche, Earl of Desart, Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, Vice-Admiral J. M'Dougall, Italian General Tanti, Madame…

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Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, June 27, 1865. the Death of President Lincoln

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1865 · page 2

THE death of President Lincoln, it may safely be assumed, has caused a shook to public feeling throughout the civilized world. The unknown " village attorney," the unpolished…

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Death of Mr. Cobden, M.P. (From the Home News.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1865 · page 2

It is our painful duly to announce the death of Mr. Cobden, who expired at half-past eleven on Sunday morning, April 2nd, at his town residence, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. For several years Mr. Cobden's health had demanded his utmost care, more…

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Poetry. Lines on the Death of President Lincoln

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1865 · page 5

Shout, shout, ye tyrants:—clap your hands For your greatest foe is gone. Arise, ye true-hearts, and remove the bands That Lincoln has now undone…

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CALIFORNIA. (From the S. M. Herald.) Reception of the News of the Death of Lincoln at San Francisco

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1865 · page 3

The melancholy intelligence of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln reached Sa[?] Francisco on the 15th of April, and produced a terrible sensation in the minds of the people. At first the dreadful event was diseredited,…

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Melancholy Death of Mr. Vigors, the Mail Guard

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1865 · page 2

Much surprise and regret was occasioned in Maitland on Saturday morning by the receipt of information that Mr. John Urban Vigors, who for many years past was well known us one of the mail guards on the Great…

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The Late Mr. Justice Wise. (Communicated to S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 October 1865 · page 2

The Rev. Dr. Steel, of Sydney, at the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, made the following remarks on the death of Mr. Justice Wise:— While thus referring to the dead, I cannot refrain…

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Death of Mr. D. H. DENIEHY. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Oct. 24.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1865 · page 8

A magisterial inquiry was held at the Bathurst Hospital on Monday last, before Dr. Palmer, P.M., touching the death of one Daniel Henry Deniehy. Robert William Waters, senior-sergeant of police,…

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