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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1910

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Suspicious Death of an Opal Miner. Walgett

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 March 1910 · page 3

Thomas Needham, a miner at Lightning Ridge, has been found dead at the bottom of a shaft 60 feet deep. The circumstances are suspicious, Needham having lately won…

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Cablegrams. Epidemic of Suicide Among Russian Girls. Chopin's Funeral March—then Poison. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 March 1910 · page 3

A remarkable epidemic of suicides is reported from St. Petersburg The victims have generally been women and the cases are ascribed to neurasthenic…

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Drifted to Death Fate of 50 Fishermen. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 March 1910 · page 3

Fifty fishermen of Peterhof, on the South coast of the Gulf of Finland, are believed to have lost their lives in a remarkable way…

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The Late Mr. C. F. Morris

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 March 1910 · page 3

Mr. George Francis Morris, of "Arral," Clendon-road, Toorak, and "Fairfield,' Rutherglen, vigneron and wine merchant, who died on 8th January last, left by a…

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Obituary. Death of Ven. Archdeacon Hose. "Days and moments quickly flying Blend the living with the dead."

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1910 · page 5

It is true that the living and the dead are blended; and it may be said that death is an essential condition of life itself, and something beautiful rather than…

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Living Death. Danger of Street Cycling

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 March 1910 · page 6

A distressing story of an accident to a young lady cyclist was (says "Lloyd's News") related in the King's Bench Division on December 14, in an action…

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The Fitzroy Explosion. Death of Crabtree

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 March 1910 · page 2

John W. Crabtree, the grocer who was injured last Saturday week by the extraordinary explosion in his shop in Brunswick-st Fitzroy. died on Saturday morning…

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Death of Menelek the News Withheld. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 March 1910 · page 2

Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia is dying, and is now in extremis. At the Emperor's instance the Empress has been deposed, and has been ordered to quit the place…

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Death of an Infant

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 2

The infant daughter of Mr. and [?] M'Auliffe, of Corowa, died on Sunday morning last, March 27th, from marasmus at the age of six months. Her…

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Broken Hill Explosion. Death of Charles Weight. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 5

The sensational explosion which occurred on Tuesday morning at Wright's, bakery has resulted in the death of Mr. Charles Wright, the owner of the business. The…

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Death of a Child

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 2

Friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. M'Leod, of Corowa, will regret to hear that they suffered bereavement in the death of their youngest child, a son, on Wednesday…

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Death of a Woman. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 3

The second death occurred from hamorrhagic small-pox at the Quarantine Station to-day. the victim was Mrs. Sherman. wife of Mr. A. H. Sherman, whose address…

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Two Motor Hogs Get Off the Death of William Boatwright. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 2

The trial of Tom Bushell and Frank Baynton, chauffeurs, on a charge of feloniously killing William James Boatwright, at Sydney, on February 24 last, was concluded…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 30

We regret having to record the death of two old residents of the district. The first was Mr. Daniel Driscoll, of Yerong Creek, whose connection with the town…

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Death of Tanquerey

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 April 1910 · page 4

The death is reported from Paris of Tanquerey, senior, the notorious free portrait swindler. A London paper, the "Morning Leader," writes:—Tanquerey was a rascal…

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Death of King Leopold's Partner

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 April 1910 · page 2

The death has occurred of Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, who was associated with, the late King Leopold of Belgium in gold-mining ventures in Colorado, U.S.A. Mr…

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Death of Mr. W. F. Egan

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 4

The news of the sudden death of Mr. W. F. Egan, late of this town, came as a sudden shock to many when it was seen in the "Sydney…

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Mad Powelka's Escape Death of Sergeant M'guire. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 2

Sergeant M'Guire, who was shot in the stomach at the time of Powelka's escape in the encounter with the convict, died this morning at Palmerston North. It has…

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Otway Small-pox Death of Mrs. O'hara. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 2

The death of another of the small-pox patients at the Quarantine Station, Portsea, has unfortunately to be recorded. Dr. Burnett Ham, Chairman of the Board of…

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Death of Mr W. Leetham

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 2

It is with very much regret we have to record this week the death of Mr W. Leetham, J.P., of Woodlawn, Hill Plain, A few months ago Mr Leetham became…

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