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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

262 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14

Death of S. C. Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. S. C. Hall, the well known author, is dead. [Mr. Hall's wife, as well and widely known in the field of literature as himself, lied some time ago…

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Correspondence the Peculiar Death of a Girl. "Et Us Reason Together." to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 3

SIR,—I beg that you will be good enough to publish the enclosed letter, which I addressed on 16th instant to the Crown Law Department. By that…

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Death of Jockey Snowden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1889 · page 3

The death is announced of J. Snowden, the well-known jockey, which took place on February 6, after a protracted illness. The late horseman was born at Flixton, in…

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Correspondence the Peculiar Death of a Girl at Wickham. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1889 · page 3

SIR,—Assuming that you are sincere in your declaration that your abuse of my medical employer and myself is all on public grounds,…

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The Death of Minnie Harmer. Statement of the Dead Girl's Mother. Her Denunciation of Quacks. Truth, Like Murder, Will Out. A Bereaved Mother's Grief

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1889 · page 5

INTERVIEW of the intense interest manifested by the public in the circumstances connected with the sad death of the girl Minnie Harmer, at Wickham, and the subsequent disclosures that…

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Death of Bishop Ullathorne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death of Dr. W. B. Ullathorne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, whose sickness has been announced for some time, is reported…

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Death of Count Schouvaloff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The death is announced of Count Peter Schouvaloff, Russian diplomatist, and formerly Russian Ambassador in London…

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Strange Death of an Australian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—An inquest into the cause of the death of Mr. Kerr, who recently arrived from Melbourne, has been held, but the newspapers have suppressed all…

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The Death of Minnie Harmer. Quacks and Quackery. Taken Up by the Sydney Press. SYDNEY, Monday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1889 · page 5

THE Evening News of this afternoon devotes a column and a quarter to a summary of the circumstances of the death of Minnie Harmer. The News commences the article…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The death is announced of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in his 67th year. [The Right Hon. Richard plantagenet Campbell…

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John Bright's Funeral. Imposing Obsequies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The remains of John Bright were interred in the churchyard, Society of Friends, at Birmingham. The funeral was attended by many thousands of the…

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Burwood. OBITUARY

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

The death of Mr. James Davies, the eldest son of Mr.William Davies, late District Chairman of the Miners' Association, has to be recorded. He had been ailing for about…

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Death of an old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1889 · page 8

ANOTHER old Newcastle identity has passed away, in the person of Mrs Priest, who expired yesterday morning at Belmont, at the residence of one of her daughters. Mrs…

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Death of Kossuth. the Hungarian Patriot. His Glorious Career

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot and ex-governor, who is 87 years of age, is dying at Turin, where he has resided for many years…

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Death of the Negus

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Signor Crispi, the Italian Premier, has received news from the Italian territory on the Red Sea litteral confirming the intelligence previously…

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Death of a Musician

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur S. Ouseley, M.A, Mus. Doc., for formerly professor of music in Oxford University, who was in his 64th year, is dead…

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Death of a Centenarian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mons. Chevreul, the French chemist, who attained his 100th year in 1886, is dead. [Michel Eugene Chevreul, chemist, was born at…

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Death of a Bat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. —The death is announced of H. Jupp, the well-known Surrey cricketer. [Jupp, who was regarded as one of the best bats…

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Latest District News. Adamstown. FUNERAL

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1889 · page 8

THE funeral of the unfortunate man, Martin M'Namara, who was killed by a tree falling on him on Tuesday, took place on Wednesday, and was attended by a large concourse…

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A Centenarian Soldier. 107 Years of Age. Death of a Waterloo Veteran

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1889 · page 8

CONSIDERABLE sympathy was shown, and many expressions of grief were made in in Plattsburg yesterday when it became known that old Mr. Grant was dead. The…

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