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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Weddings

Weddings, 1884

9 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Disaster at a Wedding. Thirty-five Persons Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1884 · page 2

BUDA-PESTH, Tuesday.—A disaster occurred at a wedding party in Hungary as it was proceeding down the river Thesis. The boat upset and thirty-five persons were…

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The Wedding at Styles' Grove

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 8

ONE of the greatest social events Wallsend people have ever assisted in occurred on Wednesday, when Miss Maggie Fletcher, second daughter of Mr. James Fletcher,…

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Select Poetry. the Silver Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1884 · page 3

Come, wife, sit here, and we'll rest a while Till the merry dance is o'er; Our sliver wedding has made me fool As if youth were mine once more…

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A Japanese Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 2

A JAPANESE wedding must be a very melancholy affair. In Japan it is not good form for the bride to admit that she enjoys the prospect of getting…

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Wedding at Onebygamba

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 July 1884 · page 3

A VERY interesting event took place at Onebygamba yesterday, which gave that usually sombre locality quite an animated appearance, and put the Islanders in a state…

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Unpleasant Accident to a Wedding Party

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A buggy, containing a wedding patty, was crossing Middle Harbour yesterday, from Manly, when it was upset. The party were rescued, but two…

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Dangerous Quarrel at a Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—During a quarrel at a birthday party in Day-street, Mary Jones threw a tumbler at the host's (Robert Ward's) head, inflicting a dangerous…

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A Wedding under Difficulties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1884 · page 4

THEY had a terrible time at a wedding up at Petaluma the other day, which only goes to show how the smallest drawback will sometimes take the stiffening out of the…

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A Novel Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1884 · page 7

A NOVEL wedding took place recently in the outskirts of London. Nothing unusual occurred until the contracting parties left the church. It was then that the bride, a…

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