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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1875

8 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Death of Towney, the Tracker

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1875 · page 4

"TOWNEY," for years attached to the Bourke police as tracker, died on the 3rd instant from injuries received by a kick from a horse, and was buried on the…

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Death of the Hon. W. M. Arnold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 2

OUR renders will learn with feelings of regret of the untimely death by drowning of the Hon. W. M. Arnold, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the…

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The Little One That's Gone. Lines on the Death of Ada Mary Blyton

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 3

I GAZE upon the mountains, the valley, and the plain, Bedacked with wild flowers freshly fair, bright gems of Flora's train. And though all nature wears a smile most beautiful, I…

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Obituary. Thomas William Heney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 2

IT will be received with general regret by the residents of the district that Mr. T. W. Heney, one of the proprietors of this Journal, breathed his last…

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Obituary

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Power, better known as " Kerry Tom," died at the residence of Mr. Joseph Mellodew, off Bombala-street, Cooma, on the night of Thursday,…

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Death of Sir Charles Cowper, K.c.m.g

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 5

A telegram received from Sir Daniel Copper by the Hon. the Cononial Secretary, written on Thursday week, says:—" Sir Charles Cowper died at 10.15…

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Funeral Reform

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 4

ON the afternoon of the 2nd instant, a meeting was held in Messrs, Hiles and Jackson's room, George-street, Sydney, of those gentlemen interested in funeral…

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Obituary. Rev. William Sowerrby

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 3

GOULBURN pepers convey to [?] the and tidings that Dean Sowerby died on Monday night, aged 77. Dean Sowerby was born in Castle-Sowerby, Cumberland…

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