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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1868

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Arrival of The Panama Mail. News to December 15. Intense Fenian Excitement Clerkenwell Gaol blown up. Strong Military Force in London. Fenian Funeral Obsequies in Dublin and Cork. Great Cyclone in India. SYDNEY. Saturday, 12 0 (noon)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 4

THE Panama mail arrived in Sydney this morning, bringing news from Europe to December 15th. A strike existed among the London…

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Death of Mr Drummond From the Bite of a Tiger Snake. the Rival Snake Charmers. Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 2

Mr Drummond, the police magistrate of Daylesford, allowed himself to be bitten in the arm by a tiger snake, in order that the efficacy of Mr Shire's antidote for snake poison might be tested. Mr…

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Death of Lady Tichbourne—singular Evidence

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 3

THE difficulties which surrounded the settlement if the question of succession to the Tichborne baronetcy are likely to become more complicated by the sudden and…

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New Account of the Death of King Theodore

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 4

"Theodore did not commit suicide. Having witnessed the destruction of his army, and having searched death in vain amid ball and shell, when he saw the head of the…

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On the Death of an Only Child

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 December 1868 · page 2

DARKNESS is going; daylight is breaking: My eyelids through weeping are heavy and aching; Night after night the watch I've been keeping O'er the little sick-cot where my poor boy is sleeping…

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