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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1883

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Sudden Death of a Journalist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. William Lees, journalist, who was travelling from Hay to Melbourne, died in the train…

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Reported Death of El Mahdi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1883 · page 4

CAIRO, Thursday.—A pitched battle has been fought on the Soudan between the rebels with the False Prophet and the Egyptian troops. It is reported that El Mahdi has been killed…

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Death of Lady C. Phipps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—Lady Constance Mary Phipps, daughter of the Marquis of Normanby, Governor of Victoria, has died at the age of 31 years, at the family seat in…

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Death of Sir William Morgan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—Sir William Morgan died suddenly yesterday of heart disease. The collapse was quite unexpected…

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Death of Mr. A. W. Scott

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1883 · page 2

THE death is recorded of Mr. Alexander Walker Scott, at the age of eighty-three years. Mr. Scott was a colonist of more than fifty years standing, and for a…

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Death of a Veteran Statesman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 November 1883 · page 2

PARIS, Tuesday.—Eugene Rouper, the veteran French statesman, is dead…

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Death of Mr. G. H. Nichells

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 November 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. H. G. Nicholls partner in the firm of David Jones and Co., died at his residence, Paddington, yesterday, of heart disease, at the age of…

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Death of an Old Colonist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 November 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Henry Darlot, one the oldest colonists, died yesterday. He came out to Sydney at a very early date. He was a fellow…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 November 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.—Baron Overstone is dead…

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Sudden Death of a Waiter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Broome, a waiter at the International Dining-rooms, George-street, was fonud dead in bed to-day…

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CABLEGRAMS Death of Sir Charles Siemens

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 November 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.—Sir Chales Siemens, the eminent electrician and civil engineer, aged 60, is dead…

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Death of Count Lagrange

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1883 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.—The death is announced of Count de Lagrange, the well-known sportsman and owner of racehorses…

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Death of a Great Traveller

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1883 · page 1

PRINCE, the pet elephant of Barnum's great show, has just died, George Artingstall, the elephant keeper, who has been twenty-six years in the…

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Death of an Old Tasmanian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1883 · page 4

WE (Hobartown Mercury) regret to have to record the death of one of the oldest colonists, Mr. Thomss Cruttenden, the well known landed proprietor of Woodsden…

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Death of a well-known Contractor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Mr. James M'Guigan, contractor for the Prospect reservoir works, died at his residence in Hotham on Thursday…

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Death of a Great Singer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.—Signor Mario, the celebrated tenor, is dead. Guiseppe Mario (Marchese di Candia) the celebrated tenor, is dead, at the age of 75 years. He was…

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Death of a Sporting Reporter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. John Ella ("Touchstone"), the sporting reporter of the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Tribune, died rather suddenly this morning…

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CABLEGRAMS Death of Professor Holloway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—The death is announced of Dr. Holloway, well known in connection with the patent medicines which bear his name…

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