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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1900

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Death of Mr. A. G. Taylor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

MR. A. G. TAYLOR, formerly a member of Parliament, died to-day…

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Death of Mr A.G. Taylor. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

Mr A. G. Taylor, formerly a member of the Assembly, died this morning in Callan Park Asylum…

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Death of John Ruskin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of John Buskin, M.A., LL D., the eminent art critic and author, aged 81…

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Transvaal War the Action at Acton Holmes. How the Colonials Were Surprised. Australian Flour for the Boers. One of Kruger's Grandsons Captured. Johannesburg Undermined. the Position at Ladysmith. Death of a War Correspondent. Sir Charles Warren's March. the Boers in a Tight Place at Colenso. the Boer Losses. an Engineering Feat. Comports for the New South Wales Contingent. London, Jan. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 3

In the action westward of Acton Holmes the British losses were two men killed and two men wounded. Lieutenant-General J. D. P. French, commanding…

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Death of a Novelist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of Mr. R. D. Blackmore, the novelist, at the age of 74…

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Late News by Cable. London, Jan. 22. Death of the Duke of Teck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 3

The Duke of Teck, father of the Duchess of York, died at While Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, this morning, at the age of 63…

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The Late Mr. A. G. Taylor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 4

MR. A. G. TAYLOR, whose death was briefly Announced in Saturday's issue, died late on Thursday night in Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, where…

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The Late Mr. John Ruskin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

The body of the late Mr. John Ruskin is lying in State in Coniston Church, Lancashire, Mr. Ruskin's relatives have declined to allow his remains to be interred in Westminster Abbey…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of Professor David Edward Hughes. F.R.S., in his 69th year…

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Death of an Old Resident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

ONE of the oldest residents of Muswellbrook distuct, Mrs. Parkinson, relict of the late Jas Parkinson, passed over to the great majority on Thursday…

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Death of a Volunteer. Adelaide, Saturday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3

Trooper Cox, of the New South Wales Contingent (son of the Hon. G. H. Cox, M.L.C ), died at ten minutes past two o'clock this morning. He took ill with phneumonia on Monday last, on the arrival of…

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Death of a Volunteer. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1900 · page 3

Mrs. J. Meeban has received a telegram stating that her son William, a member of the Australian Horse with the second contingent, left at Port Adelaide dangerously ill, has since died of typhoid…

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Death of Trooper Meehan

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 2

IT is with regret' we have to record that on Monday Mrs. Meehan, of Maitland-street, received a telegram stating that, her son William,…

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The Late Mr J.L. Thompson

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 2

In connection with the death of Mrs. L. Thompson, who worked so untiringly for the advancement or the agricultural industry of the colony, a preliminary meeting…

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Death of Mrs W. Waddell

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 2

The town was shocked to learn on Tuesday afternoon that the highly respected wife of Mr William waddell of Townbead was numbered with the silent majority…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of the Marquis of Queensberry, aged 56…

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The Late Mr. J. L. Thompson

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2

IN connection with the death of Mr. J. L. Thompson, who worked so untiringly for the advancement of the agricultural industry of the colony, a…

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The Death of Gordon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 February 1900 · page 5

An appendix in Mr. Charles Neufold'a book, "A Prisoner of the Khalifa," gives an account of General Gordon's death from the General's head kavaas, Khalil Aga, the only…

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Death of a Bank Manager

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of Mr. W. Fairclough, manager of the London branch of the Bank oE Victoria…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 3

The death is announced of Mr. Edward Martin, chairman of the board of directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenty Company…

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