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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1872

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Obituary

Empire · Monday 6 May 1872 · page 3

Mr. W. C. Wentworth, of Australia, who is to be buried at Vaucluse, Port Jackson; Professor Morse, Professor Maurice, Mr. John Peel…

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Arrival of the Rangatira at Adelaide, with the English Mail Per Baroda. [A portion of the following appeared in a Second Edition of the Herald, issued at noon un Saturday.] Death of W. C. Wentworth. Earthquake at Antioch, Fifteen Hundred People Killed. Earthquake at California, and Loss of Life. Copper, £98. [Associatid Press Telegrams.] Adelaide, Saturday, 7.30 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 May 1872 · page 7

The branch mail (s.) Rangatira B. Paddle, commander, arrived off Glenelg on the 4th May, at 4 a.m., with the Adelaide mails; she left King George's Sound on the 29th April, at…

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Death of Mazzini

Empire · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 3

We have to record the death of one of the most prcmineat personnges of the age Giuseppe Mazzini who died at Pisa on March 9. An old friend, Mrs. Nathan, was with him during his short illness, which was proba…

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Death of Murphy, Anti-papal Lecturer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 2

The well-known Protestant lecturer, William Murphy, dies lately of the injuries inflicted on him by a brutal mob at Whitehaven, who may probably rejoice that thay have silenced an opponent, and demonstrated the purity of their…

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Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, May 7. the Speaker took the chair at 24 minutespast 4 o'clock. Death of Mr. Wentworth—adjournment of the House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 7

Sir JAMES MARTIN said he desired to submit a motion to the House without notice. Before doing so he wished to intimate that in consideration of the present state of parliamentary business, and the crisis which now existed,…

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Obituary

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 3

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Death of Mazzini

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 23

We have to record the death of one of the most prominent personages of tho age-Giuseppe Mazzini-who died at Pisa ou March 9. An old friend, Mrs. Nathan, was with him during his short illness, which was…

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Death of Murphy, Anti-papal Lecturer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 599

The well-known Protestant lecturer, "William Murphy, died lately of the injuries inflicted on him by a brutal mob at Whitehaven, who may probably rejoice that they have silenced an opponent, and demonstrated the purify of their…

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America. Death of the Primate of the United States

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 7

The Most Rey. Martin John Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, died on Feb. 6th, at the: Episcopal residence, adjoining the cathedral, church. During the past three years the…

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Telegraphic News by the Suez Mail. News to the 12Th April.—the Queen in Germany.—the Prince of Wales at Rome.— Death of Mr. W C. Wentworth-adverse Criticism of Sir James Martin and Earl Belmore.—greatearthquake [?] Many Lives Lost. London, April 12

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 21

The Queen is on a visit in Germany. The Prince of Wales is at Rome, where he [?] had an interview with the Pope. The Budget shows a surplus of three millions…

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Death of the Ex-president of Libera

Empire · Wednesday 15 May 1872 · page 4

THE mail steamer Lagos, which arrived at Liverpool on March 3, from the West Caust of Afriea, bringa intelligence from Mourovia to the effect that the ex-president of Liberin, the Hon. Mr. Roye, who had been…

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Papers by the Mail. Extracts From Death of the Ex-presidnet of Lirera

Evening News · Saturday 18 May 1872 · page 5

THE mail steamer Lagos, which arrived at Liverpool on March 3, from the West Coast of Africa, brings intelligence from Monrovia, to the effect that the ex-President of Liberia, the Hon. Mr. Roye, who had been…

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Obituary. London, April, 19

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 June 1872 · page 1

Maurice, interred by Llewellyn Davies, in Highgate Cemetery; Morse, telegraphist; Sir Algernon Paten, General Wingfield, Major-General Gambier; Colonel Biddulph…

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Death of the Paris Headsman. Paris, March 31

Evening News · Saturday 1 June 1872 · page 2

Monsicur [?] Paris is dead, I do not speak of the Price who takes his title from the French capital; but of that sinister personage, who, according to Joseph de Maistre, is, after the priest, the mainstay of social order,…

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Terrible Death of a Bride

Evening News · Monday 3 June 1872 · page 5
Also in Empire

THE Pittston (Pennsylvania Gazette gives the following particulars of a distressing case of hydrophobia:-About eleven weeks ago a young woman named Cox, daughter of Miles Cox, of Stoddartsville, went into the…

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Death of the Paris Headsmar. Paris, March 31

Empire · Monday 3 June 1872 · page 3

Monsieur de Paris is dead. I do not speak of the Frince who takes his title from the French capital but of that sinister personage, who, according to Joseph de Moistre, is, after the priest, the mainstay of social order,…

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Professor 'Maurice's Funeral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1872 · page 3

TWENTY-ONE years ago, every Sunday afternoon in term-time, I used to find myself in Serle's-place— once called Shire-lane—where "Isaac Bickerstaff" lived, and the Kit-Kat Club was founded, but which,…

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Exciting Scene at a Funeral

Evening News · Tuesday 4 June 1872 · page 3

GREAT excitement and no ordinary consternation were recently evinced at the Blaenavon Churchyard. It appeared that after the officiating clergyman had terminated the funeral service over the body of a young…

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Death of a Political Prisoner

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 June 1872 · page 5

The Freeman of 16th Arpil says:— We learn that Mr. Patrick Kearney, one of the political prisoners sent to America, lately returned to his native…

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