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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1888

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The Late Mr. Charles Harper

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1888 · page 5

IN these days of selfish striving for pocket and place, says the Illrawarra Mercury, it is gratifying to find that an active, honest, and straightforward…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Death of a Chinese Merchant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Louis Kong Meng, the wealthy Chinese merchant. He leaves a widow and twelve children…

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The Death of Richard Proctor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 5

RRICHARD A. PROCTOR, the famous astronomer and popular lecturer on the science, died of yellow fever at Millard's Hospital, New York, on…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. the Funeral of the Late Mr. Dalley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 October 1888 · page 5

THE funeral obsequies of the late Right Hon. W. B. Dalley were observed with great solemnity at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Bishop of…

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CALCUTTA, Thursday. Death of Colonel Crookshank

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 October 1888 · page 5

Colonel Crookshank, who was seriously wounded while commanding the fourth British column operating on Black Mountain, has died from the…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1888 · page 4

Princess Waldeck has died in Germany…

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Death of an Aged Retainer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 7

MRS. HULL, one of the oldest of the Queen's servants, died at Dorset Road, Windsor, on Sept. 24. She entered Her Majesty's service as…

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Cablegrams. the Late Mr. Dalley. London

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

THE Pall Mall Gazette contains a eulogistic article on the late Right Hon. W. B. Dalley, and says that his life and history proved him to be one…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Offawa Prjenalsky, the celebrated Russian explorer…

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Death of Husband and Wife

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

AN extraordinary discovery was made one Saturday afternoon at Heeley, Sheffield, involving the death of two persons, Robert Snowdon, a potato…

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Shocking Death of General Buller, V.c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1888 · page 5

Major-General Buller in alighting from a train at Woolwich got out on the wrong wide, and was knocked down by a passing train. His body…

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Death of Earl Lucan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lucan in his 89th year…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Baggallay, P.C., and formerly a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal…

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Mysterious Death of an Irish M.p

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1888 · page 5

Mr. Jasper Pyne, Parnellite member for West Waterford, fell overboard from a steamer, between Holyhead and Dublin, last night, and was…

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Death of Colonel Duncan, M.p

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Colonel Francis Duncan, M.P…

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The Death of the Jockey Waldron

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 November 1888 · page 4

In regard to the question as to whether the races should have been postponed on account of the fatal accident to the jockey Waldron, we may state that immediately…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of the Right Hen. Viscount Portman at the age of 89. The deceased represented the county of Dorset for ten years in…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1888 · page 5

The death is announced of Mr. James O'German (the O'Gorman Mahon), formerly Home Rule member for Clare…

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Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1888 · page 7

IT is with extreme regret we have to record the demise of another old and highly-esteemed resident of this port, in the person of ex-pilot James Taylor,…

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[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Wednesday. Death of the President of the Swiss Republic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1888 · page 5

The President of the Swiss Republic died whilst undergoing an operation of amputation of the leg…

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