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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

262 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 14

Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday—The deaths are announced of Mr. L. Blanchard, the dramatist; and of Mr. J. F. Bottomley Firth, LL.B., barrister-at-law, etc., well-known Radical…

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Death of Carl Schneider. The Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1889 · page 2

THE inquest upon the body of Carl Schneider, who died on Wednesday night from the effect of injuries received in a fall of coal in No. 2 Hamilton pit, was continued at the Gleoe…

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Original Poetry. Lines on the death of eleven men and boys, at Hamilton Pit, June 22, 1889, caused by a fall of coal and debris. "Where did the miners die?"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 September 1889 · page 2

It was not on the battle-field, Amid the din of war, Where man meets man in bloody strife, And conquering legions are;…

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Funeral of Proctor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1889 · page 7

The remains, of the late David Proctor, being the last of the bodies recovered from the Hamilton Pit disaster, were removed to their last resting place yesterday afternoon…

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Death of a Potentate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 September 1889 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday.—The death is announced of Charles III., Prince of Monaco, aged 70. [Prince Charles III. of Monaco was the…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Right Rev. William Conner Magee, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough, died to-day. [The above message appears to be a wire…

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Death of the Prince of Monaco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death is announced of Charles III., the sovereign Prince of Monaco. The concession to he builders of the Casino permitting gambling, which has…

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The Death of Samuel Yates The Doctor's Evidence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1889 · page 3

THE inquest upon the body of Samuel Yates, who died on Sunday last through injuries caused the night previously by being run over by a train near Teralba, was resumed…

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Death of the Queen of Tonga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1889 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday.—The Queen of Tonga is dead. She was interred with great ceremonial…

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Death of Dr. Bonar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 3

THE Rev. Dr. Haratius Bonar, minister of the Grange Free Church, Edinburgh, died at his residence in that city, after a lingering illness, at the age of 81. He studied under…

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Death of a Bishop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The death is announced of the Right Rev. J. F. Mackarness, D.D., late Bishop of Oxford. [The Right Rev. John Fielder Mackarness,…

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Death of Wilkie Collins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Wilkie Collins, the celebrated novelist, is dead…

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Death of Mr. Farnie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. H. B. Farnie, the author of the librettos of several comic operas, is dead…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] Death of Wilkie Collins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The death of Wilkie Collins, the well-known novelist, is announced [William Wilkie Collins is one of the best known and most popular of English novelists, and…

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CABLEGRAMS. Death of Lady Holland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The death is announced of Lady Holland, mother of Lord Knutsford…

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Death of a Noted Free Churchman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 September 1889 · page 3

MR. JOHN MACDONALD, who was the first general treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, and until a few years ago carried through the active duties of the financial…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death is announced of Eliza Cook, the poetess…

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The Fatal Accident at Stockton. The Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 8

THE interment of the remains of the deceased William Williams took place yesterday afternoon at Sandgate. The coffin was brought over from Stockton by the…

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Our Adelaide Letter. ADELAIDE, September 23. Death of a King

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 3

IT is not often that we hear of a King dying in a hospital, yet such an event happened hero last Sunday, when Richard I. King of the Warramungas, departed this life…

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The Late Mr. D. Berry. His Will

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 September 1889 · page 5

THE funeral of the [?] Mr. D. Berry took place on Friday, at Broughton Creek, Shoalhaven district, and was attended by a vast concourse of people. It was estimated that…

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