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Obituaries & funerals, 1874

19 stories in Riverina's papers

Death of Mr J. F. Martley

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 6

THE sudden death of Mr. J. F. Martley, the well-known barrister of Sandhurst, and the painful circumstances by which it was attended ae thus reported by the Advertiser…

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Death of Abd-el-kader

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 4

Abd-el-Kader, the announcement of whose death has been brought by the Ellora, is thus referred to in " Men of the Time ":—…

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The Late Mr. John West

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT signing himself Truth and Justice sent us some weeks put the following notice of the late Rev. John West, but we were unable to insert it sooner…

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Death of Mr. William Robertson, of Colac. (From the Argus.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 January 1874 · page 4

We have with regret to record the death of Mr. William Robertson, of Colac, who expired at his residence at Colac on Sunday morning last, at the…

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Death of the Rev. P. S. Menzies

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 3

The Rev. Peter Sinclair Menzies, M.A., who has been the colleague of the Rev. I. Hetherington in the Scots' Church Collins-street, since July, 1868, we (Argus) regret…

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The Death of Juliana Bennett

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1874 · page 4

IN accordance with the desire of the hon. the Chief Secretary, the board appointed by bis Excellency the Governor in Council to…

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Death of the Siamese Twins

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1874 · page 5

THE Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, died at their residence in Mount Airy, Surrey county, N.C., on Saturday morning, January 19th. Chang was paralysed last fall,…

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Death of the Siamese Twins

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 4

THE death of the Siamese twins was caused by derangement of the cerebral clot of Chang's brain. Eng was asleep when the brother died, and was not aware of it until told…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Thomas Henderson

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 2

It is our melancholy duty to record the sudden death yesterday morning of Mr. Thos. Henderson, chemist of this town. About three weeks ago he suffered greatly with…

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Obituary Speech

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 4

THE following is the verbatim report of sn obituary speech, made not long ago in the Texas Legislature. The orator, in lamenting the death of Colonel Yell, a colleague,…

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Death of David Frederich Strauss

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 3 June 1874 · page 5

A telegram which we received last night, announces that Dr.David Frederich Straues, the author of the Life of Jesus,died on Sunday morning at Ludwigsburg, in…

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Death of a Woman Miser

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 6

THE New York Weekly Sun has the following:—Early on Sunday morning Margaret Fitzsimmons, an Irishwoman, sixty years old,…

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Death of Ex-president Filmore

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1874 · page 4

THE death of Mr Fillmore, which occurred at his residence in Buffalo on Sunday, 8th March last, had been looked for for some time, as he had been prostrated a long while…

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Dr. Livinstone's Funeral

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 8 July 1874 · page 4

Dr Livinstone'e funeral in Westminster Abbey excited more general interest than has been seen on any similar occasion since the funeral of Lord Palmerston. The applications…

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Funeral of M. Beule

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 6

We have bad a grand funeral, that of M. Boule, formerly Minister of Finance under the Empira, a widely-known and much esteemed figure of French public life. The…

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Death of Zadkiel

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 22 July 1874 · page 5

ON the 5th of April last,' says the Athenaeum, 'Commander Richard James Morrison, of the Royal Navy, known in his day, among his intimates, as a Hebrew scholar as well as a…

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The Death of Gunner Dagwell

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 4

THE board of enquiry appointed to consider the circumstance attending the death of the late gunner John A. Dagwell, who threw himself from one of the windows at the…

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Death of the "Flying Max."

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 6

It was announced yesterday that at half-past seven p.m. M. do Groof, the " flying man" would repeat at the Cremorne-gardens "bis astounding performance of flying through…

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The Coroner and the Late Mr. Lyall

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 14 October 1874 · page 2

On reading in the Express, of Saturday, the petition forwarded by the employees of Brookong station, to the Attorney-General, referring to the alleged carelessness of the…

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