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Obituaries & funerals, 1878

22 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2

Death of Victor Emmanuel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 1

THE telegrams from London announce the death of Victor Emmanuel, and the proclamation of Prince Humbert as King of Italy. The following short…

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Death of the King of Italy. London, Jan. 10

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1878 · page 2

VICTOR EMANUEL II., King of Italy, is dead. During three days he suffered from fever; and all the aid which could be rendered by his physicians proved unavailing. The…

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Death of His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 2

IT is at all times a painful duty to chronicle the decease of any one, but inasmuch as His Holiness the Pope was honored and revered by a large section of this…

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Death of Mr. H. G. Donovan

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 27 February 1878 · page 2

"Death, thou art terrible—the tear The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier. And all we know, or dream or fear Of agony are thine."…

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Death of Mr. H. G. Donovan

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1878 · page 2

"Death, thou art terrible—the tear The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier. And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine."…

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Death of Mr. T. R. Watt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 3

OUR renders (says a Young exchange) have already been informed that Mr. T. R. Watt. met with a buggy accident on the 4th instant, but few we imagine were…

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Sad Death of a Devoted Wife

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1878 · page 2

ON the 1st of March the Queensland Executive Council released from penal servitude Frank Sydney Bowerman, who, nine years ago was convicted before the Chief Justice…

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Death of a Wealthy Australian Squatter

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1878 · page 2

"ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN" in the European Mail says:—I have to chronicle the demise, at the age of 66, of one of the earliest and most…

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The Funeral of Pius Ix

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1878 · page 2

The ceremony enacted in the Grand Basilica of St. Peter's, which commenced at 6.30 p.m. on the 13th February and ended at 8.25, was solemnly impressive. Perfect…

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The Late Mr. John Stuart Mill

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1878 · page 2

PROFESSOR FAWCETT paid a graceful tribute to the memory of the late John Stuart Mill on Saturday (Feb. 2), when the statue erected to his memory, in the…

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Death of Mr. Samuel Bennett

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 June 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will sympathise with the sorrow in which the work of this day is carried on, when they learn that Mr. Samuel Bennett, the proprietor of the Evening News and Town…

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Lord Leitrim's Funeral. (From the Evening News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 19 June 1878 · page 1

POPULAR PROTEST AGAINST INTERRING THE EARL BESIDE THE MARTYRS OF NINETY-EIGHT. DUBLIN, April 11, 1878—The terrible…

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Funeral of the Late Bishop of Lichfield

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 1

The remains of George Augustus Selwyn, the late Bishop of Lichfield, were interred by his desire alongside those of the late Dean Champneys, in…

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Death of the Ex-king of Hanover. London, June 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 1

The ex-King of Hanover is dead. He expired in Paris, the cause of death being internal abscess. The following particulars of the…

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Obituary

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 17 July 1878 · page 1

Mr. Wykeham Martin, who had represented Rochester 22 years, died with awful suddenness in the House of Commons Library on May 31…

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Death of the Duchess of Argyll

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1878 · page 3

FEW indeed by the accidents of birth and marriage have been surrounded by more numerous or illustrious kinsfolk, and still fewer have won to themselves…

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Mysterious Death of Two Durham Bulls

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1878 · page 4

It is with regret that we (Mudgee Independent) have to record the death of two very valuable Durham bulls, the property of our esteemed townsman, Mr. Vivian Cox, whose…

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Death of the Queen of Spain

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 1

QUEEN MERCEDES, of Spain, died on Wednesday forenoon, June 26, from an attack of gastric fever. Since Tuesday night the attending physicians had…

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Death of Mr. Edward Henty. (Evening News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 1

TELEGRAPHIC intelligence, dated Melbourne, Wednesday, announces the death of Mr. Edward Henty, the first settler in Victoria. The deceased…

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Death and Funeral of the Great Scottish Giant. (Evening News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 1

MR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, landlord of the Duke of Wellington publichouse, High Bridge, Newcastle, and widely known as the Scottish giant, died at that…

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