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Obituaries & funerals, 1865

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Death of Lord Palmerston

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 6

The following sketch of the deceased nobleman's career is copied from "Men of the Times" It brings down his career to the year 1855, when he became Prime Ministor of…

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Death of the Very Rev. Dr. M'swiney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 796

A most remarkable man has been called away from this life, in the full maturity of a venerable age. Dr. M'Swiney, so long known and respected as the president of the Irish College in Paris…

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The Alldeged Murder Case. "Violent Death of Henry Kinder

Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 5

THE magisterist inquiry into the charge of murder against Louis H. Bertrand, Jane Bertrand, and Maria Helen Kinder was resumed and concluded on Saturday last. Alfred Burne recalled and examined by Captain Cloete:…

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In Memoriam. Lines on the Death of Miss B. GILLIGAN, Who was acidentally poisoned, December 6th, 1865

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 794

She is gone, she is gone, and forever, Our sister, my brothers, and mine Oh merciful Heaven have pity And grant consolation divine…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Death of Lord Palmerston. Increase of Cholera. Wreck of the Duncan Dunbar. by Electric Telegraph. [Through Greville and Bird.]

Empire · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 5

The branch steamer with the English November Mails arrived at Adelaide yesterday evening…

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Death of Dr. Douglass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 5

THE inexorable King has withdrawn from mortal relations another of those few whose names connect the early stages of Australian colonisation with the present time. Dr. Douglass, of Douglass Park, it…

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Continental Press on the Death of Lord Palmerston

Empire · Friday 22 December 1865 · page 8

The Conatitutionnel of Oct 20 publishes the following remarks upon the death of Lord Palmerston: The death of Lord Palmerston is a public calamity…

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The Funeral Arrangements

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 5

Contrary to the expressed wishes of the late Premier, his remains will not be buried at Romsey, but at Westminster Abbey, to morrow, October 27, by the express desire of her Majesty, who will be…

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Death of Mr J. F. Herring, the Animal Painter

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 3

It was only last week that we had occasion to refer in more than one place to the productions of this gentleman, trusting that he might be able to give, us many, more best if not last works. It is true that we were…

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Arrival of the Mail. English and Foreign Intelligence. Death of Lord Palmerston

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 5

Our readers will receive with feelings of surprise and regret the melancholy intelligence conveyed in the above announcement The death, indeed, of Lord Palmerston has been sudden and unlocked for…

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Lord Houghton on the Death of Lord Palmerston

Empire · Friday 29 December 1865 · page 3

On the 19th the Wakefield industrial and Fine Arts Exbibition was closed, after being open for six weeks, during which time it was visited by more than 185,00 persons. Addresses were delivered by Lord Houghton,…

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