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Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Death of sir W. Clarke

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2

ON Saturday morning Sir William Clarke, Bart, suddenly expired in the street in Melbourne. It appeared he was proceeding to his office as usual when he was suddenly…

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Sudden Death of Sir W. J. Clarke. Heart Disease the Cause. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2

Sir William J. Clarke, Bart., expired while on his way to his office this morning. He had alighted from a tram in Collins-street, in front of the Union Club Hotel, and almost…

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Death of Mrs. Manning

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 May 1897 · page 3

WE regret to learn that the death is announced of Mrs. Manning (wife of Mr. H. Manning, of Messrs. Tompson, Manning, and Jeremy), at "Morvon," Glebe Point,…

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A Mother at Fourteen. Death of Mother and Child

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2

The Hay coroner held an inquest at Whitton on Monday respecting the death of Hariet Maria Finley, aged 14 years and one month, who died on Sunday a few hours after…

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The Death of Peter Stumpf. Extraordinary Evidence. the End of an Old Gundagai Identity

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 4

THE police, an receiving a letter from Dr. O'Dwyer, thought the circumstances surrounding the death of Peter Stumpf, an old Gundagai identity, waranted an inquest being…

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Death of Charles Ohlsen a Suspicious Case

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 June 1897 · page 4

The Adelaide city coroner was engaged 5 hours on Monday morning in inquiring into the circumstances of the death of Charles Ohsen, who died in the Adelaide Hospital on…

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Death of Rev. J. Valentine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 2

WORD reached town yesterday of the death of the Rev. John Valentine from phthsis, a disease from which he had suffered for a considerable time. During his last illness…

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Strange Death of a Woman. Extraordinary Conduct of Her Husband

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 4

The District Coroner opened an Richmond Victoria, on Tuesday into the death of Mary Ann Robie, 35 married who is supposed to have committed suicide on…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Eddy. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 3

Mr Eddy, Chief Commissioner for Railways, New South Wales, died suddenly at Brisbane this morning…

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Death of Mr. Eddy [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

MR. Eddy, the New South Wales Railway Commissioner, is seriously ill in Brisbane, and his condition is causing great anxiety to his friends. He had been feeling the…

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The Death of Mr. Eddy. the Fatal Illness

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 4

The news of Mr. Eddy's death came as a great shock to the people in this colony, an it had not been generally known that he had been seriously ill. The announcement of the…

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Funeral of Mr. Eddy

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 2

THE funeral of Mr. Eddy, Chief Commissioner of Railways, took place in Sydney on Thursday. Floral wreaths and emblems were sont by the Governor, the promier and…

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Death of Mr. N. Melville. a Prominent Parliamentarian

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

Alderman Ninian Melville. J.P., died at his residence, Dover-street, Summer Hill, at 1 o'clock on Saturday morning from sceptic pneumonia, following on tonsilitis. He was…

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The Death of Adam Muller. a Magisterial Inquiry

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 3

A magisterial inquiry was held on Saturday [?] morning by Mr. G. H. Tempest, J.P. [?]ner, touching the death of Adam Miller the Wagga Hospital on Friday morning…

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Death of Ninian Melville. Another Victim to Pneumonia

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 3

Aid, Nimeu Melville, of Ashfield, and for some time Mayor of that borough, died at his residence, Ashfield, early on Saturday morning, after a brief illness…

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Tumbarumba. (From Our Correspondent.) Obituary

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 2

ANDREW Burke, e'dest son of Mr. John Burke, of the Burra, who has been in the Sydney Hospital for some months suffering from that fearful disease hydatids,…

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A Tribute to the late Mr. Eddy. [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 6

SIR,—Would you allow me through your valuable columns to say a few words to the officers and men of the New South Wales Government railways on this…

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Death of Mr. J. B. Hurley

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 5

IT is our sorrowful duty to report the death of Cootamundra's pioneer resident—Mr. John Byrne Hurley, J.P. Readers are aware that he had been ailing for a long…

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Funeral of the Calvert Explorers. Impressive Ceremony at the Exhibition Building

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 July 1897 · page 4

THE [?]uria, of he ladies of Mr. C. F. Wells, and Mr. G. L. James, members of the Calvert expedition, who died of thirst [?] J[?]hanus Springs, took place in Adelaide on Sunday,…

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OBITUARY. Mr. John Byrne Hurley

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 July 1897 · page 6

THERE are two classes of useful and good citizens—first, the man who is ever watchful and active, from proper and patriotic motives, of the public interests of the…

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