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Riverina · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

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Death of a Shipmaster

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 4

The sad death of Captain J. Heneby is reported in Tuesday's Horald. It appears he was run over by one of the trams and expired soon…

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A Funeral Interrupted. Ballarat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 3

Much excitement (the Age correspondent says) was created in the city this afternoon, when two horses attached to a hearse, fully plumed, were observed bolting along…

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Sudden Death of Mrs. E. Bell

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1889 · page 2

AN inquiry was held by Mr. Weekes, P.M., yesterday, as to the cause of death of Mrs. E. Bell, as old resident of Gundagai, which took place very suddenly on Sunday night. The following…

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The Funeral of Patient Wilson. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 2

SIR,—I wish to state that I was in no way responsible for the way in which the late hospital fun[?]rs was conducted. My share of the work was done and the grave ready, but the trouble arose through…

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Death, of a Miser

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 30 October 1889 · page 2

An old woman named Margaret Collins was found dead in her house where she had been living at West Maitland on Saturday morning. She…

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Death of a Maitland Miser

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 October 1889 · page 2

AN old woman named Bridget Collins, said to be between 70, and 80 years of age, who has been a object of charity to the benevolently disposed in Maitland for a long time…

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Death of Mr. Webr Magisterial Enquiry

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 December 1889 · page 2

ON Tuesday last Mr. M. Tuohy, J.P., coroner for the district, held a magisterial inquiry at Ellerslie stations, near Adelong, touching the sad death of Charles Henry Webb…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Tuesday, 10.30 a.m. Death of Searle

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 11 December 1889 · page 3

Searle died at nine o'clock this morning. Miss M'Key. a young lady employed at Fry's Exchange Hotel, Bourke,…

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The Funeral of Searle. Enormous Crowds in Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1889 · page 2

THE feneral honours accorded to the remains of Henry Ernest Sea[?] the champion [?] of the world, on Saturday afternoon constituted one of the most imposing and…

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The Fatal Explosion at Pyrmont. Death of Two Men

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1889 · page 3

A SAD accident occurred on Tuesday morning at Messrs. Davy and Sand's foundry, at the foot of Harris-street, Pyrmont, by which two men were…

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Mysterious Death of a Woman. Sus[?]cions of Foul Play

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 3

THE dead body of a young womans [?] was Kate M'Evoy (Monday's Arguely part of found yesterday morning i[?]out two miles the Mooree Valley [?] circumstances which…

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Elfgy on the Death of Henry Ernest Searle. [Warren for Saturday. December 14, 1889.]

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 25 December 1889 · page 4

Tell the boil -- raise the flags -- But balf-mast let them wave: This is the day Australians take Their sculler to his grave…

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