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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Peculiar Death of a Miner

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 4

A DEATH under most peculiar circumstances has just been disclosed (says the Trunkey correspondent of the 'Free Press'). A miner named John McGuire, an old respected resident of the Tuena…

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The Late Mr. Eddy's Will

The Western Herald · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 4

The will of the late Mr. Edward Miller Gard Eddy, Chief Commissioner for Railways, who died in Brisbane on June 21, 1897. was recently…

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Death of Professor Parker. Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 November 1897 · page 2

Dr. Thomas J. Parker, Professor of Biology in the Otago University, died yesterday…

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Death of an Old Identity

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

A GREAT many people will hear with regret of the death of Mr. John Robinson, of the Narromine Hotel, Narromine. He had only been ill a few days, and died on Saturday morning at 4 o'clock…

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The Late Mr. Stewart Todhunter

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

THE following further particulars of the death of Stewart Todhunter are from the Cunnamulla paper : It appears that on Thursday the 11th, Todhuuter, accompanied by another man and a blackboy, was…

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Death of Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

THE many friends in Dubbo, Wellington, and, in fact, in the Western districts generally, of Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald, of the Court House Hotel, Macquarie Street, will hear with regret of his death. Those…

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The Late Mr. R. K. Fitzgerald

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 2

IT came with a shock upon the community when it became known lastt Saturday evening that Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald, the popular landlord of the…

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The Late Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 4

THE funeral of the late Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald took place on Monday afternoon, and it was very largely attended. The procession was one of the largest ever seen in Dubbo, and in its ranks were the…

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The Late Mr. Langtry

The Western Herald · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 4

Chatting of the late Mr. Langtry, husband of the " Jersey Lily," whose death recently took place in a lunatic asylum, a detective named Perkins…

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Death of a Labour Leader. Adelaide

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1897 · page 3

Mr. Macpherson, leader of the Labour Party, died yesterday of cancer of the lower end of the stomach…

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