Telegrams New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Death of Captain Knight
Captain Knight, for many years connected with the A. S. N. Co.'s service, died suddenly on Sunday night of apoplexy. The flags of most of the shipping…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1885
220 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 11
The Death of Captain Knight
A WELL-KNOWN figure in nautical circles, that of Captain Festing Colsor Knight, has been removed by death. The deceased gentleman died at his…
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The funeral of the late Mr. W. H. Isles, son of one of the members of the firm of Messrs. Finney, Isles, and Co., bas taken place, and excited great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Mr. Taaffe
THE remains of the late Mr. John Taaffe, of Pelican Flat, Lake Macquarie, were interred in the Belmont cemetery on Monday last, in the presence of a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Sir Moses Monteflore
The death is announced of Sir Moses Montefiore in his hundred and first year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Strange Funeral
A SINGULAR funeral took place in Paris on June 15. A wealthy bourgeois of the Rue S. Jacques, named Begis, tired of life and caring nothing for his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reported Death of Osman Digna
Brigadier-General F. W. Grenfell telegraphs to the Secretary of State for War that the Arabs report that Osman Digna is dead at St. Petersburg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of General Grant
AN enthusiastic meeting, convened for the purpose of eliciting an expression of sympathy and condolence with the people of, the United States, was held in the vestibul…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of an Actor
Mr. Gerald Eyre, a member of Dion Boucicault's Dramatic Company, died early yesterday morning, from pneumonia. He was only taken ill on…
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Viscount Halifax is dead…
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OUR cablegrams announce the death of Viscount Halifax. The deceased nobleman was 85 years of age, having been born in 1800. He succeeded his father as the third…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Death of General Grant
The Governor and Consul Griffin cablegrammed to the President of the United States condolence messages on the death of General Grant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of a Peer
The death is announced of Baron Houghton, at the age of 77. John Ruskin. Mr. John Ruskin, M.A., the celebrated…
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THE Right en. Richard Monckton Milnes, D.C.L., F.R.S., whose death is announced in our cable news, was borne June 19, 1809. He was the only son of Robert Pemberton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unveiling the Monument to the Late Mr. Thos. Dickson
WE would remind our readers that the ceremony of unveiling the monument to the memory of the late Mr. Thomas Dickson (late President of the Eight-hours' Committee)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death of Mr. Staey
Henry Peter Stacy, late manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank at Singleton, died this morning…
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Sir Harry Ord, formerly Governor of Western Australia, died suddenly in Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sudden Death of a Clergyman
The Rev. Robert Barlow, who for 26 years has officiated as incumbent of St. Mark's Church of England, Fitzroy, died suddenly to-day. Towards the close of the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of an old Orangeman
The remains of the late Mr. W. H. Johnstone, one of the oldest Orangemen in New South Wales, was interred at Ryde on Saturday. The procession was fully a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasmania. Hobart, Tuesday. Death of Dr. Butler
Dr. Butler, late Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and chairman of the late Board of Education, died at 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. He had been ill for a long time…
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