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Northern Rivers · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1883

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The Late Mr. W. King

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 April 1883 · page 3

WILL you kindly parmit an old subscriber to correct a mistake or two in your last week's obituary, which my acquaintance with the deceased for the last 27 years enables…

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Death of Sir John O'Shanassy

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 May 1883 · page 3

TELEORAMS in the Sydnoy [a[ers, state that Sir John O'Slmnassy died on Saturday afternoon, 5th instant. A month ago he complained of a blister under the large too…

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Death of Mr. William English

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 July 1883 · page 2

IT is our sad duty to have to record the death of the above gentleman, who died this (Wednesday) morning at his residence, wilson's Creek, near Lismore, at 3 a.m. Mr…

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Cablegrams. Captain Webb Drowned. Death of Cetewayo. Sixty-five Persons Drowned. Proposed Liberation of 1Oo,ooo Criminals. (From Reuter's Cable Assooiatjon.) London, July 23

Northern Star · Saturday 28 July 1883 · page 3

18,000 Chhiese troops aro neuring Havoi, with the object of maintaining the claims of China against Tonquin. Mons. Lesseps undertakes to construct the…

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Death of Captain Webb

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 October 1883 · page 2

FULL, details of the tragical death of Captain Webb on July 24 in his attempt to swim through the Niagra Rapids are given in telegrams sent by the special corespondents…

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Death Roll of Niagara

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 November 1883 · page 2

THE melancholy death of Captain Webb has led to the publication in one of the New York journals of a record of the most memorable incidents and disasters connected…

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Funeral on the Tweed. (In memory of the late Mr. H. A. Solomons)

Northern Star · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 3

Where the woods grow thick, and the box-trees nod We buried him beneath the cold grey sod, On that lone hill where ne'er a wild flower grew, We laid the stranger of six months ago…

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