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Obituaries & funerals, 1872

17 stories in Riverina's papers

The Death of Mrs. Gallogly. Adjourned Inquest

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 3 January 1872 · page 3

THE city coroner (Dr. Youl) resumed yesterday afternoon (Friday), the inquiry into the death of Margaret Gallogly, wife of the landlord of the Civil Service Club Hotel,…

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Sale of the Late Mr. J. Moffatt's Stud

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1872 · page 2

THE sale of this important stud, the largest ever formed in Victoria, was held last week in the National Agricultural Society's show-yards, on the St. Kilda-road, Melbourne. The attendance was…

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Death of the Prince's Groom

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1872 · page 2

By some strange unexplained coincidence groom of the Prince of Wales, Charles Blagg, a lad of only 20 years, has also been prostrated by typhoid fever at Sandringham, and, though tended with every…

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Magisterial Inquiry Touching the Death of Bridger. (Abridged from the Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 March 1872 · page 2

AT half-past 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, a magisterial inquiry was held at the Central Police Office before Captain Scott, P.M., and Messrs. Pinhey, Smart, Evans, Neale, Levy,…

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Death of Mr. Percy Tanner

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 3 April 1872 · page 4

THOUGH scarcely within the province of a journal such as this to refer to matters outside its legitimato functions, those connected with its literary staff…

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Funeral Extravagancies

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 1 May 1872 · page 4

THERE is reason to hope that the clergy are about to deliver a severe blow at the undertakers, which, if followed up in other quarters will not only protect the bereaved from some…

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Mazzinis's Funeral

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1872 · page 4

MAZZINI'S funeral took place at Genoa on March 17. A special telegram states that the car on which the coffin was placed was followed by at least 80,000 persons. Around…

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Death of Colonel William Nicol Burns

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 22 May 1872 · page 4

THE second eon of Robert Burns, and the last survivor of three brothers who grew to man's estate, died at his residence in Cheltenham on Wednesday, the 21st February…

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Death of the Paris Headsman

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 8 June 1872 · page 1

MONSIEURDE PARIS isdead. Ido notspeak of the Prince who takes his title from the French capital; but of that sinister personage who, according to Joseph…

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Obituary

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 29 June 1872 · page 2

Duke of Bedford, Lord Dalling, Archduchess Sophia, Marshal Vaillant, and General Greaves…

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Lord Mayo's Funeral

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 10 July 1872 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the postponement of the State reception of Lory Mayo's remains interfered seriously with the effect which would have been imported by the presence of immense…

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Death of One of Leichhardt's Companions

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 6

MR. D. BUNCE, the curator of the Geelong Botanical Gardens, died on Tuesday, 2nd July. Mr. Bunce (says the Geelong Advertiser) was born in 1813, in Herefordshire,…

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Arrival of the English Mai L, Via Suez. Settlement of Alabama Claims. England Pays Fifteen and a Half Million Dollars Indemnity. Arrest of Communists Ceased. "Metis" Wrecked—80 Lives Lost. Death of the King of Sweden. Wool Higher

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 2

THE mail steamer has arrived at Adelaide. The Queen is in Scotland. The Princess of Wales has returned to England…

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The Late Rev. Mr. Purchas

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 6 November 1872 · page 4

AT the time of his death (which was announced in our English telegram dated 23rd inst). the Rev. Mr. Purchas has been suspended from his clerical office. A London paper of…

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A Chinese Funeral

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 4

General of a Chinaman who bad died at [?]ve took place at Bathurst on Wednesday [?] and was conducted on a most [?] The cortege, as it passed…

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Death of Horace Greeley

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from London, dated Nov. 30, announces the death of Mr. Horace Greeley, the veteran journalist of New York. Mr. Horace Greeley, editor and proprietor…

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Death of Mr S. G. Henty

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 3

We have to record the death of one of the earliest pioneers of this colony—Mr. Stephen George Henty. The Henty family are almost a household word here and almost everbody knows their history. They left…

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