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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1886

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Latest Telegrams. Death of Sir Alex Stuart. London, June 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1886 · page 4

Sir Alex Stuart, late Premier of New South Wales, sod executive commissioner for the colony at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, i[?] dead…

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Suspicious Death of a Young Woman at Sydney. . Two Men and a Woman Arrested

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1886 · page 23

A strange case occurred at North Harbor, Sydney, on the 10th inst. George Griffiths reported to the police at Manly early on that day that he had found the body of a young…

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Death of Sir Alexander Stuart. London, Wednesday, June 16. Sir Alexander Stuart is dead. Resignation of Sir John Robertson, Sydney. Friday, June 18

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 June 1886 · page 2

Sir John Robertson has resigned his seat in the Assembly owing to the increasing feebleness of his injured leg, and through being unable to endure long and late sittings. Besides this his address states…

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Obituary. Calcutta, June 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1886 · page 19

The death is announced of the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, one of the Central India States. LONDON, June 19…

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The Death of Sir Alexander Stuart. London, June 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1886 · page 18

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales @…

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The Mysterious Death of a Young Lady in Sydney. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1886 · page 22

The inquest on the North Shore mystery was continued to-day. Griffiths, the prisoner, charged with assaulting the deceased girl Elizabeth Martin, made a long statement. He…

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The Death of H. A. Woolfe at Tumbarumba. the Inquest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1886 · page 23

The following are the details of the evidence taken at the inquest held at Tumbarumba before Mr. F. W. Vyner, P.M., the district coroner, and a jury of 12 persons, on the body of Henry…

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Death of the Archbishop of Paris. Paris, July 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1886 · page 18

His Eminence Cardinal Gu[?]bert, Archbishop of Paris, died to-day, at the age of 83 years…

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The Late Mr. Ross Ramsay

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 July 1886 · page 3

LESS than a year ago it was our painful duty to record the death of Mr. James Ramsay, junior partner in the Narrow Plains estate. Last week Mr. Ross…

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Suspicious Death of a Young Woman

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 27

On Thursday afternoon, 22nd inst,, a young woman named Julia Georgina Percival Warburton, 2[?] years of age, died at the house of a Mrs. Hamilton, Young-street, Fitzroy,…

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Death of the A[?]e Liszt. London, August 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 18

The death is announced, at the age of 75 years, of the Abbe Fra[?]z Liszt, the eminent pianist and composer…

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Death of Mr. Tilden. New York, August 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1886 · page 18

The death is announced, at the age of 72 years of Mr. Samuel Jones Tilden, well known for the part [?]e took in exposing the [?]rands of the "T[?]many Ring" in 1871, and who was…

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Death of Mr James Mann

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 2

We regret to announce the sudden death of Mr James Mann, the well-known stock and station agent of End-street, Deniliquin. Mr Mann was in his usual state of health on Monday evening and…

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Poetry. the Death of the Flowers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 August 1886 · page 2

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere…

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Death of Lord Henry Lennox. London, August 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 September 1886 · page 18

The death is announced, at the age of 65 years, of Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox, late M.P. for Chichester…

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Will of the Late Mr. Thomas Walker. Large Charitable Bequests

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 24

The late Mr. Thomas Walker, of Yarral[?] Concord, N.S.W., has left large b[?]quests to charities. His will directs his executors to distribute £20,000 Amongst the charitable…

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Death of Mr. Samuel Morley. London, September 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 14

The death is announced, at the age of 76, of Mr. Samuel Morley, late M. P. tor Bristol…

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Death of Peter Campbell

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 September 1886 · page 2

A shocking and fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening on the St. Kilda railway line, between the Middle Park and St. Kilda stations, by which Peter Campbell, the "bush missionary," was run over by an…

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The Late Mr. Thomas Holloway’s Will. London, October 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1886 · page 4

A sister of the late Thomas Holloway, the proprietor of the well-known pills and ointment, is disputing the validity of his will. Mr. Holloway died on the 26th December,…

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Death of Count Von Beust

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 22

A cable message announces the death of Count von Beust, the eminent Austrian statesman and diplomatist. He was born in Dresden on January 13, 1809, and was for…

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