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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

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Death of an Old Veteran

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 3

ON Saturday William Robinson, aged 103, an inmate of the George-street Benevolent Asylum, Parramatte, passed away. He was born on St. Patrick's…

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Original Lines on the Death of the Late Mrs. James F. Capper

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 7

Hark! the angels whisper; Murmuring sweet, they say" She's dead." Her body lies in death's siesta, Her spirit unto God has fled…

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Death of Dr R. J. Pierce

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 4

DR. R. J. PIERCE, the well-known physician of West Maitland, died on Thursday from apoplexy. The deceased gentleman was a promiment citizen, having served several…

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

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 7

Sir,—I note that your Bando correspondent appears to have been misinformed in stating the case of Chas. Sylvester, he having been camped for a week with five other men, in a hut, at Bomera…

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Sudden Death of Prince Rudolph, of Austria. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 2

News is to hand of the sadden death of the Crown Prince of Austria. Telegrams from Vienna state that, according to the official report of the death of the…

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The Sudden Death of the grown Prince of Austria

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 2

LONDON, February 1.—lt is [?] that the Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, took a lady to his shooting lodge, Moyerling, at Baden,…

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Death of the Archduke Rudolph. (Herald's Cablegram.) London, Feb. 2

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 6

The official report states that the late Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, had recently grown morbid in temperament, owing to nervous excitement, resulting from a fall from his horse in…

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Mysterious Death of a Young Lady

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 2

A YOUNG lady has died at Swindon ander circumstances of great mystery. Miss Dufin Wasser travelled from Plymouth on Saturday, November 3, by…

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Death of Mr. Phillip Hartmann, of Winkel Vineyard. (From a correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1889 · page 6

It has seldom fallen to our lot in these parts to deplore the death of a more worthy and esteemed neighbour than it becomes our melancholy duty to do on this occasion. Mr. P. Hartmann, of Winkel…

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The Death of General Gordon. (Herald's Telegram.) Albany, Feb. 17

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 4

The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Valetta, which arrived here this morning, brings the following intelligence of the death of General Gordon, as described by an eye-witness:…

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The Death of General Gordon. Statement of an Eye-witness

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 2

ALBURY, February 17.-The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Valetta, which arrived here this morning, brings the following iutelligence of the death of…

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Death of the Old Wife

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1889 · page 4

She had lain all the day in a stupor, breathing with heavy-laboured breath, but as the sun sank to rest in the far-off western sky and the red glow on the wall of the room faded into dense shadows she…

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The Death of Gordon. Knocked Down and Stabbed. Refused to Fly. Adelaide, Wednesday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 March 1889 · page 4

THE latest advice from London states that D[?] Georgio, the Greek who escaped from Khartoum to Suakim, after stating that General Gordon refused…

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Death of Ilma di Murska.—A Touching Story

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1889 · page 2

The news of the sad death of Madame Ilma di Murska will surprise and grieve her many admirers. According to one account she was born in Croatia, of noble parents, in 1835; to another in 1843, though…

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Poetry. the Death of Anthony

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 4

Can it be? Are you living my queen? I thought I had lost you forever; I was hurrying on to seek you O'er Acheron's dark river…

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Obituary

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 3

The death is announced of Dr Ullathorne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham. The death is announced this evening of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Bart., the eldest brother…

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Death of a High Ma[?]ri Chief

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 4

Wetere te Rerenga, the head chief of the Mokau, died on March 10. He was 50 years of age. He had only been ailing a few days. His complaint was congestion of the liver. Wetere (says the N. Z…

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Notes Concerning the Death of the Crown Prince of Austria

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 2

THE news was circulated in Vienne on January 30, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon that the Crown Prince Rudolph was dead…

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Death of a Pioneer

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 3

Mr Thomas Boland, one of the pioneers of the Blue Mountains, died at Penrith yesterday, aged 88 years…

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Notes Concerning the Death of the Crown Prince of Austria

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 4

FOLLOWING up our notes of last issue concerning the tragic death of Prince Rudolph, we give the appended items compiled from various sources:—…

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