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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1888

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[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Thursday. Death of a Well-known Colonist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Holt, late of Sydney, is dead…

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The Late Mr. Clarence Stewart Lindsay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1888 · page 3

THE following appears in the Illustrated London News, along with a portrait of the abovenamed, who was well-known in the North of…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Mr. Richard Proctor, the celebrated astronomer and lecturer…

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Death of an Eminent Lawyer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1888 · page 11

BY the death of Mr. Pitt-Taylor, which took place on July 17 at his residence in Eccleston Square, the legal profession loses one of its oldest…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. OBITUARY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 4

Captain M'Leod, of the Beeswing, is dead. THE ARMY. Four hundred officers from all…

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CALCUTTA, Thursday. Reported Death of Abdurrahman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 5

A report has been received from Central Asia of the death of the Ameer of Afghanistan. It is generally discredited in official circles at…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Saturday. the Stanley Relief Expedition—death of Another Leader

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 September 1888 · page 5

News is to hand from the west coast of Africa that Mr. Jameson, who was organising a second expedition for the relief of Mr. Stanley, had died of…

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PARIS, Sunday. Death of Marshal Bazaine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Marshal Bazaine, aged 77…

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Sudden Death of a Preacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 11

WILCOCK'S Assembly Room, Lambeth-road, London, was the scene of a sad incident on a recent Sunday. The rooms are open every Sunday, when a…

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Select Poetry. Uncle Nate's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1888 · page 2

'TWAS not at all like those you see of ordinary men; 'Twas such as never could occur, except once now and then;…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. OBITUARY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1888 · page 5

CAPTAIN JAMES READ, Balmain Steam Ferry Co., is dead. THE USUAL VERDICT. A coroner's jury has returned a…

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Sudden Death of a Noted Socialist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 8

ANOTHER member of the Paris Revolutionary Party died suddenly at a meeting, like the ex-Communist "General" Eudes a few weeks ago…

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Death of the Governor of Queensland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 6

NEWS has been received that Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland, died shortly after midnight on Monday. It appears that he was in…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Funeral of Sir Anthony Musgrave

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1888 · page 4

The funeral ceremonies of the late Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland, were of a most imposing description. The funeral procession…

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Death of Mr. L. R. Jerome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 10

BY the death of Lawrence Roscoe Jerome, the uncle of Lady Randolph Churchill, at the age of sixty-nine, New York has lost one of its most…

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Select Poetry. the Funeral of Hope

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1888 · page 2

I HAVE been to the funeral of all my hopes, And entombed them one by one; Nor a word was said, Not a tear was shed,…

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Death of Mr. J. L. Hall, the Actor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1888 · page 5

MR. J. L. HALL, the well-known actor, died on Sunday in the Melbourne Hospital. For many years past he had suffered from a pulmonary…

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Extraordinary Incident at a Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1888 · page 5

A PAINFUL incident occurred recently at the grave of the man Thomas Jones, who murdered his wife and afterwards committed suicide at Portsmouth,…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Wednesday. Death of the Italian Ambassador

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 October 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Count Robilant, Italian Ambassador in London…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Friday. Death of Admiral Shortland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Admiral Shortland, who was the surveyor of Port Phillip Bay. The deceased was also one of those who assisted in the…

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