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Obituaries & funerals, 1865

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Obituary

Empire · Monday 18 September 1865 · page 5

Mrs. Sigourney, the American authoress, Dr. Ferguson, Mr. Isaac Taylor, the author…

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Death of Dr. Macadam

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 September 1865 · page 8

THE following telegram appeared in the Otago Daily Times of Monday, the 4th instant:— Bluff, Sunday, 5 p.m. The steamship Alhambra arrived from Melbourne…

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Death of Dr. Macadam

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 September 1865 · page 10

The following telegram appeared in the Otago Daily Times of Monday, the 4th instant:— Bluff, Sunday, 5 p.m. The steamship Alhambra arrived from Melbourne…

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Death of Madame Sara Flower

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

MADAME Sara Flower, a vocalist well known in England, died in Sydney on the 20th ultimo. The late contralto arrived in Melbourne in the early part of March 1850, and sang at two concerts given in that…

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Death of Dr. Macadam

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 September 1865 · page 7

The following telegram appeared in the Otago Daily Times of Monday, the 4th instant:— Bluff, Sunday, 5 p.m. The steamship Alhambra arrived from Melbourne…

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New Zealand. Death of Dr. Macadam

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 September 1865 · page 602

The following telegram appeared in the Otago Daily Times of Monday, the 4th instant:— Bluff, Sunday, 5 p.m. The steamship Alhambra arrived from…

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Death of Judge Wise

Empire · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 4

The public will learn, with surprise and regret, that his Honor Mr. Justice Wise, who prooeeded to Victoria by the mail steamer Northam, on Saturday last, died at St. Kilda, near Melbourne,…

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Death of Sir William Lawson. Bart

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 611

It is our painful duty to announce the demise of one of our few remaining old English Catholics, Sir William Lawson, Bart., of Brough Hall, Catterick, Yorkshire, who departed this life at…

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Death of His Honor Mr. Justice Wise

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 615

We regret to announce that his Honor Mr. Justice Wise died in Melbourne yesterday, where he had proceeded for the benefit of his health…

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Death of Druid. (From Bell's Life in Victoria.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 4

In our town edition last week we announced that this colt—first favourite for the Melbourne Cup—was amiss, and that under the most favourable circumstances he was not likely to start for the Melbourne Cup. It is our…

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Central Criminal Court.—saturday. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Hargrave and a common jury.) His Honor, the Late Mr. Justice Wise

Empire · Monday 2 October 1865 · page 5

Mr. Justice HARGRAGE said—Before the business commences, I desire to state that I am extremely sorry that the state of the public business, in this sitting, will not allow of my adjourning this Court as a slight…

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The Late Mr. Justice Wise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1865 · page 5

THE Rev. Dr. STEEL, at the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, made the following remarks on the death of Mr. Justice Wise:— While thus referring to the dead, I cannot refrain…

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Coroner's Inquiry Into the Case of the Late Mrs. Melville

Empire · Thursday 5 October 1865 · page 8

The special inquiry into the death of this young woman, took place before the City Coroner on Tuesday. As the case was one which, at first, appeared to be attended with grave circumstances, an investigation…

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Law. Supreme Court.—wednesday. (Before His. Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice.) the Late Mr. Justice Wise

Empire · Thursday 5 October 1865 · page 5

After the CHIEF JUSTICE had taken his seat on the bench, he said:- I could not, without violence to my feelings, take my seat again on this bench and omit to notice the death,…

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The Late Mr. Justice Wise

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

THE Rev. Dr. STEEL, at the close of his sermon last Sunday moraine, made the following remarks on the death of Mr. Justice Wise:— While thus referring to the dead, I cannot refrain…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1865 · page 5

Professor Aytoun, Sir William Johnstone, Countess of Shaftesbury, Lady Caroline Wood, Mr. J. Parkes, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Admiral Austin, Professor Donaldson,…

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Obituary

Empire · Thursday 12 October 1865 · page 5

Mrs. Frederick Peel, Professor Aytoun, Mr. George Arbuthnot, Auditor Civil List, Admiral Sir Francis Austen, and Sir William Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens…

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Stanzas on the Death of Henry Davis Gill. Inscribed to His Afflicted Sister

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 651

Ah, me! I cannot exorcise the grief, Which like a Spirit of Unrest Hath nestled in thy wounded breast, And shakes life's fibres like an aspen leaf…

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Biographical Sketch of the Late Mr. Justice Wise

Illustrated Sydney News · Monday 16 October 1865 · page 4

EDWARD WISE, late one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, was a native of the Isle of Wight, England, and was born August 13th, 1818. His father,…

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The Salutation at Cherbourg. AIR—"The Death of Nelson." Recitative

Empire · Monday 16 October 1865 · page 5

O'ER good Bordeaux, at moderate cost possessed, BRITANNIA cracks her filberts with a zeet: May those light wines be hers no end of years, And in exchange Franco take our ales and beers!…

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