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Obituaries & funerals, 1872

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Tales. Tressa's Resolve. a Tale by the Late Mrs. Calvert. Chapter Ix

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 537

AFTER dinner Mrs. Love, as usual, walked out on to the verandah. It was spacious, spread with matting, with many ornamental and lounging chairs studded about it. The view was delightful. The blue waters…

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Funeral of the Late Major Fitzsimons

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 7

THIS lamented officer expired suddenly at his residence, Victoria Barracks, on Wednesday October 2. He had been unwell for about a week prior to his death—but considered his…

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Telegrams This Day Cable News From England, to October 24. Extraordinary Yield of Gold at Hill End. Bathurst Assizes. Death of Mr. Watt, of Beechworth. Garotting at Melbourne. Latest Mining. Kiama Harbour Works. the Gulgong Escort. Mr. Sutherland at Grafton. the Pental Island Dispute. {Hill End. Saturday, 1 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 2

Beyer's and Holterman's have not yet finished crushing. They have between eight and nine hundred weight of amalgam already. The big specimens have not yet been crushed…

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Coroner's Court, This Dat. Death of two Boys by Drowning

Evening News · Monday 28 October 1872 · page 2

AN inquest was held this morning at the Hand and Heart Hotel, Dixon-street, concerning the death of two boys, named respectively, James and Thomas Cosgrave, who were drowned whilst bathing on the…

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Coroner's Inquests. Death of Two Boys by Browning

Empire · Tuesday 29 October 1872 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday morning at the Hand and Heart Hotel, Dixon-street, concerning the death of two boys, named respectively, James and Thomas Cosgrave, who were drowned whilst bathing on the…

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Tales. Tressa's Resolve. a Tale by the Late Mrs. Calvert. Chapter Xi. the Captain's Project

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 601

"GENTLEMEN wanting me, Jane?" said Bessie Shelburne, as the neat parlourmaid looked in at her door to announce visitors. "Yes, miss. Two gentlemen, miss."…

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The Universalist Rites. Spiritist Funeral at Castlemaine

Evening News · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 3

MRS. GRUBB, nominally a member of the Church of England, but who has recently shown a preference for the more liberal ideas expounded by Mr. Leech, died at Castlemaine last month; and baring' refused to see a…

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The Universalist Rites. Spiritist Funeral at Castlemaine

Empire · Monday 11 November 1872 · page 3

MRS. GRUBB, nominally a member of the Church of England, but who has recently shown a preference for the more liberal ideas expounded by Mr. Leech, died at Catlemaine last month; and having refused to see a…

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Death of Twenty-five Polynesians

Evening News · Tuesday 12 November 1872 · page 3

GREAT mortality has occurred on board the schooner Jason daring her late labour cruise to the South Sea Islands. Alter her arrival at Maryborough on the 19th ultimo (we learn from the Chronicle), a magisterial…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable News from England to November 11. Pilchards in Hobson's Bay. Escape of a Mad Chinaman. Government Resident Returned to Palmerson. Boy Scalded to Death. Melbourne Settling Satisfactory. New Zealand News to Nov. 6. Shock of Earthquake at Christchurch. Death of Mr. Brodie. Settlers at Martin's Bay, Starving. the Melbourne Exhxbition. Mr. Langton to Be Agent-general. Large Fire at Carlton. Latest Commercial News. (&c., &c., &c. [The following appeared in our Second Edition, yesterday.] Cable Message

Evening News · Wednesday 13 November 1872 · page 2

London, November 11,11.22 a.m. Copper, dull. Straits tin, £143 per ton. The extent of the Boston fire corers 100…

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Death of Twenty-five Polynesians

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 23

Great mortality has occurred on board the schooner Jason during her late, labour cruise to the South Sea Islands. After her arrival at Mary borough on the 19th ultimo (we learn from the Chronicle), a magisterial…

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Tales. Tressa's Resolve. a Tale by the Late Mrs. Calvert. Chapter Xii. Marion's Difficulties

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1872 · page 633

SCHOOL was over. Mrs. Tineley's young ladies had folded up their aprons and put them in their lunch, baskets and started home. The feeble tinkle of the worn-out piano was silent, and aunt Elizabeth sat…

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Death of a Giant

Evening News · Monday 18 November 1872 · page 3
Also in Empire

LARS TOLLEPSON, the Norwegian giant, died at No. 243, East Division-street, after an illness of three days. The deceased was remarkable for his stature, and was probably the tallest man on record of the present. He…

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Tales. Tressa's Resolve. a Tale by the Late Mrs. Calvert. Chapter Xiii. Bessie's Letter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 665

WE have reached the last station at which there is a woman, and are to stay for a week to rest and enjoy this last glimpse of female society. Here, too, we will write letters, and generally bid adieu to such…

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Tales. Tressa's Resolve. a Tale by the Late Mrs. Calvert. Chapter Xiv. the Leap in the Dark

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 697

MARION'S delight when Gus handed her a note from Aunt Sarah, containing a cheque for £500, was unbounded; none the less for the wording of the note, and her youngest brother was sent round to Mr…

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The Murder of the late Rev. Mr. Gordon

Evening News · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 3

The following particulars respecting the murder, on the Island of Eromanga, of the Rev. Mr. Gordon, will be read with interest by the many friends of Mission work:—"A Clark, Esq.—Aneitoum, New Hebrides…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 December 1872 · page 10

THE LATE MR. BOWMAN. — Amongst those who have contributed to the advancement of botanical science in Australia, the name of Mr. Edward Macarthur Bowman should be remembered with gratitude, for the specimens…

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The Murder of the Late Rev. Mr. Gordon

Empire · Monday 2 December 1872 · page 4

THE following particulars respecting the murder, on the Island of Eromanga, of the Rev. Mr. Gordon, will be read with interest by the many friends of Mission work:—" A. Clark, Esq.—Aneitoum, Now Hobridea,…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Cable Message. Death of Horace Greeley. Exciting Position of French Politics. Thiers Still Presdent. Wool and Tallow Markets Unchanged. [From Our London Correspondent.]

Empire · Monday 2 December 1872 · page 2

Lodged in London, November 30, at 1.6 p.m. Received in Sydney, December 1, at 10.46 p.m. Horace Greeley, the late unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency of the United States,…

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