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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1868

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The Funeral of Daniel Manin

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 7

A LADY who was present at the late funeral in Venice of Daniel Minin, the illustrious Italian patriot, has sent to a contemporary the following account of the speech delivered on that occasion by the Genoese…

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Death of Lord Brougham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 3

TELEGRAPH advices via the Cuba cable, announce the death of the venerable English statesman Lord Brougham. From our files received by the last New York steamer, we leard that Lord Brougham was at…

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Latest from the United States and Europe. (From the [?] Star) Further Postponement of the Impeachment Decision. Death of Lord Brougham. Riots in England, Great Animosity Against the Catholics

Empire · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 3

By the steamship Petayo, from Havana, we have received a copy of the Kingston Jamaica Gleaner, of the 15th instant, containing special telegrams from United States to the evening of the 12th of May,…

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Arrival of the English Mail Via Panama. Death of Lord Brougham. Probable Dissolution of Parliament. Progress of the Impeachment of President Johnson. Jeff. Davis' Bail Extended. Indignation in England at the Attempt on the Life of the Duke of Edinburgh. Conviction of Clerkenwell Criminals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 2

The P. N. Z. Company's steamer Rakaia, Captain Wright, arrived in Port Jackson yesterday, at 1 o'clock p.m. Her dates are Southampton May 2, via Atlantic cable May 9; San…

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Arrival of the Panama Mail Buropean News to May 12, the Impeachment of President Johnson. Death of Lord Brougham. Riots in England. the Clerkenwell Outrage. the Irish Church Resolution. Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh. Departure of English Troops From Abyssinia. Earthquake and Tidal Wave at the Sandwich Islands

Empire · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 3

The P., N.Z., and A.R.M. Mail Company's steamship Rakaia arrived in Sydney Harbour, punctually to her contract time, yesterday, and brings news from London to May 12th, and…

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Remarkable Death of a Young Girl

Empire · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Woolloomoolo[?] Hotel, Williamstreet, on the body of Ann Stainer, aged seventeen years and three months, then lying dead at her…

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Death of Lord Brougham

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 11

TELEGRAPH advices via the Cuba cable, announce the death of the venerable English statesman Lord Brougham. From our files received by the last New York steamer, we leard that Lord Brougham was at…

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Death of a Veteran

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 8

FOR a number of years there has been inhabiting the Tiers, at the west of Glenorchy, an old buck of the long-tailed species, who has defied the united exertions of the sportsmen in that locality with dogs and guns to effect his…

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The Late Mr. Boothby, Ex-judge of South Australia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 9

THE S. A. Register writes thus of the lately deceased ex-judge Boothby:—"However much opinions may differ with regard to the public career of Mr. Boothby, or however diversified may be the views taken of the extreme…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 July 1868 · page 5

Lord Brougham, Commander Pollard, Bishop of Hereford, Rev. Dr. Slatter, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Forbes, Dowager Lady Wenlock, K. E. Chitty, M. De Concini, General Patey, Sir B…

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The Late Mr. Charles Harpur

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 July 1868 · page 5

A FEW weeks ago we noticed in the columns of a pr[?] vincial paper an announcement which was invented with a peculiar and sorrowful interest. It wns a notification of the death, by consumption, of Mr. Charles Harpur, who…

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The Late Mr. Charles Harpur

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 July 1868 · page 11

A FEW weeks ago we noticed in the columns of a provincial paper an announcement which was invested with a peculiar and sorrowful interest. It was a notification of the death, by consumption, of Mr. Charles Harpur, who…

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The Late Mr. John Ryde Roberts

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 11 July 1868 · page 3

THE above gentleman expired on the 30th ult. The immediate cause of death was dropsy, though Mr. Roberts had for some months been in a very debilitated state of health. He was by profession a surveyor, and will be known to many of our reader…

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Lord Brougham's Funeral

Empire · Thursday 16 July 1868 · page 4

In the western part of [?]es, not for from Lord "Brougham's own, chatean, stands a little English church, surrounded by gardens, and commanding a noble outlook over land and sea; and from the time when it was…

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Death of Dr. Bland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1868 · page 5
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DR. WILLIAM BLAND, one of the few remaining old colonists, passed away yesterday morning, at ten minutes to 1 o'clock. The deceased gentleman had been ailing for some time, but was not confined to his room more than a week, his…

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Funeral of Dr. Bland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 July 1868 · page 5

THE funeral of Dr. Bland, whose death, in his 79th year, occurred on Tuesday morning last, took place yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of old colonists and gentlemen occupying official and influential…

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Death of Dr. Bland

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 July 1868 · page 4

DR. WILLIAM BLAND, one of the few remaining old colonists, passed away on Tuesday morning, at ten minutes to 1 o'clock. The deceased gentleman had been ailing for some time, but was not confined to his room more than a week, his…

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Arrival of the Mail Via Panama. News from England to June 8th, and America to June 9th. Rumours of a Plot to Assassinate the Queen. Exciting Scene in the House of Commons. Fenian Alarms in Canada. Death of Ex-president Buchanan Great Britain. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords.—friday, May 29

Empire · Wednesday 29 July 1868 · page 3

The Eerl of Malmesbury gave notice that on the 9th June he would move a vote of thanks to the victorious army of Abyssinia, and on the 8th June he would lay on the table the papers referring to that…

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New Account of the Death of King Theodore

Empire · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 6

"Theodore did not commit suicide. Having witnessed the destruction of his army, and having searched death in vain amid ball and shell, when he saw the head of the enemy's column crown the breach he…

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