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Obituaries & funerals, 1879

18 stories in South Coast's papers

The Late Mr. Mackenzie of Ardross and Dundonnell

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1879 · page 2

THE following extract from a Ross Shire journal, referring to the late Dr. M'Kenzie, who was so long and faveurably known in Shoalhaven and the South Coast districts, will e read with…

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Poetry. Lines on the Death of Mrs. J. W. GERRETT, Of Nowra, a very Old resident, greatly respected

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1879 · page 2

THE leaden clouds veil Sol's noon light, Which sadly gleams o'er each lov'd spot, Where smiling homes arise so bright O'er Nowra,—save one humble cot…

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Death of the Daughter of Captain Cook

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 24 April 1879 · page 4

THE 'Daily Telegraph' of the 25th September 1867, thus alludes to this occurrence:—Fifty thousand gold-diggers are working to-day in the New Zealand gullies. Sydney…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Death of the Hon. E. Butler, M.L.C.

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1879 · page 3

YESTERDAY, morning, their Honors Judges Faucett and Sir William Manning, as well as counsel and others in attendance at the Supreme Court, were greatly shocked by the sudden and…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Death of the Prince Imperial

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1879 · page 3

LONDON, JUNE 20.—Intelligence has been received from the Cape to-day, dated June 1, announcing the death of the Prince Imperial of France. His Imperial Highness was, on the 1st…

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Death of the Prince Imperial

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1879 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE reaches the colony by telegram of the death of the Prince Imperial of France by the hands of the Zulus. It will be remembered the young Prince, who completed his…

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Death of the Prince Imperial

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1879 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE reaches the colony by telegram of the death of the Prince Imperial of France by the hands of the Zulus. It will be remembered the young Prince, who completed his…

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The Late Mr. Richard Kenna

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 2

AT the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bathurst, on Sunday, 6th July, Dr. Byrne delivered an address detailing the circumstances regarding the antagonism which had arisen…

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Death of the Prince Imperial

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 2

BY the Lusitania brings Cape papers giving at best but meagre details of the untimely death of the Prince Imperial. The accounts moreover are most conflicting, but the…

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Death of the Prince Imperial

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 2

By the Lusitanian brings Cape papers giving at best but meagre details of the untimely death of the Prince Imperial. The accounts moreover are most conflicting, but the…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Death of the Prince Imperial

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1879 · page 4

THE special correspondent of the 'Cape Argus' writes from Natal, on the 1st June, as follows:— The following particulars relating to the…

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Death of a Bushranger

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1879 · page 4

'GIPSY SMITH' (says the Melbourne. 'Argus'), whose name is associated with some of the most daring bushrangers in the early days of the gold-fields, died in the Melbourne…

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Poetry. in Memoriam. On the Death of My two Sisters

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1879 · page 4

I DARE not think upon the past—twouid bring The forms of them I loved, the beautiful; Reft by death's ruthless hand in early spring, Ere "beauty's buds had blossom'd to the full…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Obituary

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1879 · page 4

MANY of our readers will undoubtely hear with much concern, of tho death of Mr. Robert Barr, who expired on Sunday morning last about half-past nino o'clock…

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Death of Constable Bowen

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1879 · page 3

CONSTABLE BOWEN, who was shot by the bushranger Moonlight in the encounter at M'Glede's farm, near Wantabadgery, last Monday, died at half-past 4 o'clock on Sunday…

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Original Poetry. In Memoriam. on the Death of W. C. KING

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1879 · page 4

Hope, affrighted, pale,—Her blue eyes streaming dew—Points upward, and the wail Of sorrow; pity too…

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Obituary. the Late Mr. Alfred Elyard, J.P.

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 2

THIS week we regret to announce the death on Tuesday last, the 23rd instant, at 11 o'clock a.m., of Mr. Alfred Elyard, J.P., of Barollan, who has been a resident in this district from…

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The Late Mr. W. C. King

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 4

THIS notice, which friendship demands and sympathy sorrowingly pays to departed worth is late in appearing, as the world goes in this nineteenth century, when everything seems to…

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