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Riverina · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1881

10 stories in Riverina's papers

Death of Mr. J. O. NORTON, P.M. (Dubbo Dispatch.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1881 · page 4

MR. John Oxley Norton, Police Magistrate, after lingering six weeks between life and death, died on Sunday morning, 26th [?]lt., at 1 o'clock. The wound which caused his…

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Death of Thomas Carlyle. ("Town Talk" in the Evening News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1881 · page 3

THE death of Thomas Carlyle carries us back in thought a generation. He was a power in those days—literary, social, and moral—such as English literature had seldom seen before,…

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Death of the Hon. George Oakes. M.l.c

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 August 1881 · page 6

WE (Herald) regret to have to chronicle the fact that the Hon. George Oakes, M.L.C., one of the best known and most respected of our colonists, met with an accident last…

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Telegraphic News. Latest by Cable. the Death of President Garfield. London, Sept. 20

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1881 · page 2

General Garfield has succumbed to the wounds inflicted by the assassin Guiteau at Washington on 2nd July. Since his removal to Long Branch be…

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The Late Mr. Joseph Leary

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 October 1881 · page 1

OUR telegraphic intelligence of last Saturday announced the death of Mr. Joseph Leary. The deceased gentleman's name had been for some years prominent in…

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Death of General Garfield

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 October 1881 · page 2

ELBERON, September 2O.—Judge Advocate-General Swain, who was the only one with the President when he commenced sinking last night, makes the following statement:—…

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The Funeral of the Late Mr. Fitzpatrick. Shocking Exhibition of Beligious Intolerance

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1881 · page 2

The following telegram appears in the Argus of Tuesday last:[?] SYDNEY, Monday. The funeral of the late Mr. Michael…

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The Late Mr. Fitzpathick's Burial. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 1

THE question was raided on Tuesday evening, in the discussion of Mr. Fitzpatrick's burial, whether the treatment of any member of the church by…

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The Late Mr. Fitzpatrick. the Clergy and the Funeral

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 2

THE following correspondence appeared in Saturday's Herald:— Sir,—I send you a copy of a correspondence between the Rev. Dr. Coletti and myself…

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Death of Sir Joshua Peter Bell. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1881 · page 2

Sir Joshua Peter Bell, K.C.M.G., President of the Legislative Councilor Queensland, owner of Jimbour station, and of the wellknown Grange stud, died very suddenly in…

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