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Obituaries & funerals, 1865

22 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Death of Dr. Douglass. (From the S. M. Herald of Saturday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1865 · page 2

The inexorable King has withdrawn from mortal rela tions another of those few whose names connect the early stages of Australian colonisation with the present time. Dr. Douglass, of Douglass Park, breathed his last…

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Death of Lord Palmerston

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 5

Our readers will receive with feelings of surprise and regret the melancholy intelligence conveyed in the above announcement. The death indeed of Lord Palmerston has been sudden and unexpected, for though reports of…

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