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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
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SIR—As I find that Captain McLerie, the Inspector-General of Police, according to to-day's report of the proceedings in the Legislative Assembly, has adopted the extraordinary notion that this unhappy woman came by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN immense number of persons assembled in the Camperdown Cemetery yesterday morning, in order to witness the obsequies of the late Messrs. Horner, whose melancholy and premature decease, by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE American mail brings the intelligence of Washington Irivng's death. He died at his beautiful residence "Sunnyside, at the venerable age of 76. "Washington Irving," says a Boston paper," was bron on the 3rd of April, 1783, in New York City…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EDWARD WHITTY, the author of "Friends of Bobemia," and the "Governing Classes,; and one of the most brilliant and the most promising of the younger writers of the day, died at his residence, at Boorcondarra, near Melbourne, on the night of the 21st…
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Continued on Trove, page 17 →DEATH'S doings among the aristocracy during the past year have been more than ordinarily numerous. Out of the members of the peerage of the three kingdoms there have died the Duke of Leeds, the Marquisses of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquest was held this day, 21st March, by C. B. Lyons. Esq coroner, on the body of Mr. Frank Kuyvett, aged 52 years, of Liberty Plains, in the district of Parramatta. From the evidence, it appeared that the deceased, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I HAVE just returned from Westminster Abbey, where the mortal remains of Thomas Babington Macaulay have just been laid, in on honoured grave, among the great men whose lives and labours he has helped to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MY darling is ill, the heat is so great; she brought me her lavender this morning, looking white and wan, and just as she put it in my desk she swooned away. She is better now,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It appears that the death of Captain Harrison, of the Great Eastern, information of which arrived by last mail, was caused by the upsetting of a sailing boat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain Harrison, of the Great Eastern steamship, whose name has been a "household word" during the past two years, owing to his connection with the magnificent vessel of which he was the selected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE circumstances which led to this most painful catastrophe are as follows:—From the time that the ship had been fairly moored at her winter quarters. Captain Harrison with his wife and family had occupied a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YEAR by year the old weapons and methods of warfare give way to new, and smaller grows the band of veterans who shared the triumphs of the great French war. The last of the three brothers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAGISTERIAL, inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of the late Mrs. Mary Ann Moors, of St Leonard's, Nerth Shore, was held yesterday at the Water Police Court, before Messrs. M'Lean, Ross,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A magisterial inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Moores, of St. Leonard's, North Shore, (the Coroner's Jury having returned an open verdict) was held on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter has been handed to us for publication, in connection with the magisterial investigation touching the death of the late Mrs. Mary Ann Moores: Water Police Office,…
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Continued on Trove, page 15 →PERHAPS with the exception of the lamented death, of the late Mr. Justice Tulfourd, no similar event has occurred which has created such a deeply painful sensation as that which it is now our painful duty to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—In the affair of the mysterious death of Mary Ann Morree at the North Shore, the facts sworn toby all the witnesses, persons of respectability, intimste with deceased, that she was a temperate woman and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In looking over the columns of your contemporary of Friday last I observed an article on the melancholy death of Inspector M'Gee, in which the following words occur:— "The fatal termination of the all air adds impressively to…
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