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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1898

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The Rookwood Tragedy. The Death of Mrs King

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 May 1898 · page 2

MRS KING, one of the victims of the murderer Martin Cusack, died on Tuesday. Deceased, whose husband was shot dead at the time she herself…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone. Sympathy From Abroad. Remarkable Manifestations. London, May 21

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 4

Mr Gladstone is to be buried in she Statesmen's Corner at Westminister Abhey, where Mrs. Gladstone will also be interred on her death, following the…

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The Rookwood Tragedy. the Death of Mrs. King

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 4

MRS. KING, one of the victims of the murderers martin Cusack, died on Tuesday. Deceased, whoso husband was shot dead at the time she herself…

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The Late Mr. Grladstone. Body Lying in State at Westminster Hall. 50,000 Persons View the Body. London, May 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 3

The Agents-General of the Australasian colonies will attend the funeral of the last Mr. Gladstone on Saturday next. Mr. Gladstone's body was conveyed from…

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The Late Mr Gladstone. The Public Funeral. Representation of New South Wales. LONDON, Tuesday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 6

Sir Daniel Cooper, the Acting Agent. General for New South Nales, has forwarded to Mr Gladstone's family, at Hawarden, the messege of…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone. London, May 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 7

Memorial services were held in all the churches in the kingdom yesterday. There were large congregations. Preaching at St. Paul's Cathedral, the…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone, London, May 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 3

The coffin was sealed on arrival at Westminster Hall and placed on a draped catafalque. Canon Wilberforce conducted service. One hundred and sixty thousand persona of all classes and creeds…

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Death of Mrs. E. Solomons

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 3

It is with extreme sorrow that we (Scone Advocate) have to record the fatal termination of the illness of Mre. Solomons, wife of Mr. Ed. Solomons, Mayor of Scone. In last…

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Death of Mr. O. R. Upjohn

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 2

We regret, save the Tammorth News of the the 24th instant., to have to record the death, which took place last (Monday) evening shortly after six o'clock, of Mr. O. R…

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Death of Mr. Harry Hyndes and Mr. Patrick Ward

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 10

Mr. Harry Hyndes, one of the leading lights of the Australian musical world, who had been very ill for some time, died at "Clarmore House," a private hospital in Sydney, on Saturday…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone, Funeral Obsequies a Most Impressive Ceremony. London, May 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 May 1898 · page 5

The funeral of the late Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone took place on Saturday, and was marked with deep solemnity, the scene in Westminster Abbey being a very impressive one…

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Mr Gladstone's Death. Magnificent Funeral Demonstration LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1898 · page 4

PRIOR to the funeral of the remains of Mr Gladstone on Friday 100,000 persons visited the body as it lay in State. Before the closing of West…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1898 · page 5

The Queen telegraphed to Mrs. Gladstone, on Saturday, the day of the funeral of the late Mr. Gladstone, the following message :—"My thoughts were much with you during the trying and painful…

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To-day's News by Wire. Sydney. Death of an Infant

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1898 · page 5

A child named John Fisher, five and a hall months old, was found dead this morning alongside its mother in a house in Foveaux-street, Surry Hills. It is stated a few days ago the infant met…

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Late News by Cable. London, May 31. OBITUARY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1898 · page 5

The death is announced of Prince Kung, President of the Chinese Foreign Office, whom demise was reported recently and afterwards contradicted. The death is announced of Mr. F. E. Beckwith…

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Synod of the Diocese of Newcastle. Tuesday, May 30. Evening Sitting. The Synod resumed at half-past seven o'clock. the Late Mrs. Parnell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1898 · page 2

The PRESIDENT said: The address which I read this morning was written in some haste, and without such aids to the memory as I should have had in my diary had I been in the diocese during…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1898 · page 3

Mrs. Gladstone has expressed her heartfelt gratitude for the overwhelming multitude of messages of sympathy from all parts of the world in connection with the death of Mr, Gladstone. A…

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The Late Mr Gladstone. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 June 1898 · page 3

During the funeral of Mr Gladstone on Saturday, Mrs Gladstone was the recipient of a telegram from the Queen, in which her Majesty touchingly…

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Death of an Old Identity

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 June 1898 · page 2

An old and respected identity of West Maitland in the person of Mrs Goorge Vindiu, passed peacefully away on Tuesday afternoon, at the ripe age of 78. The…

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Late News by Cable. London, June 2. OBITUARY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 June 1898 · page 3

The death is announced of Sir Robert Rowlinson, K.C.B., civil and sanitary engineer, and vice-president of the Society of Arts…

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