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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
267 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 14
A Turkish official despatch states that the Russians were repulsed at Kudikori, with a loss of 1000 men; while a Russian official despatch claims that the Turks were expelled from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HON. T. B. STEPHENS.—The Brisbane correspondent of the S. M. Heraldt writing under date 1st September, says:—It was the intention of the Government to make Monday and Friday of this week working days in the…
Continued on Trove, page 297 →A TELEGRAM was received in Sydney, on Saturday, announcing the death of Brigham Young, the Mormenite 'prophet' and leader. No doubt the disclosures respecting the Mountain Meadow…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Madame Thiers, claiming to arrange the funeral cortege of her late husband, wished the presence of the Senate and Deputies. The Government, however, would not participate,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE funeral of the late M. Thiers passed off quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There died last week one who in his time filled no inconsiderable space in Victorian cricket—Mr. T. J F. Wray. Mr. Wray was one of the pioneers of the game in this colony, and among our most prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most terrible crimes has must been committed in this town, and the whole of the inhabitants are in the greatest slate of excitement. A man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coroner to-day held an inquest on the body of the pearl diver named Charles Ward, who died at 6 o'clock last Tuesday evening, six hours after his arrival in Sydney by the steamship Bowen from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The great rover aud freebooter of the South Pacific—Bully Hayes—has, we learn, come to an untimely end. By the return of the Black Hawk from the Line Islands, we are informed that the American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF WE may trust the report that Yakoob Khan is dead. a striking figure has disappeared from Asiatic strite To say that he was the greatest man in Central Asia would be to say little, for the rulers and leaders who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The death of John Mathie, a Queensland colonist, is announced, under most distressing circumstances. He was about sixty years of age, and arrived in this country in June last. Subsequently he took up his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. JOHN ALEXANDER.—It is with extreme regret we have to announce the death of this gentleman on the 29th July, after a very protracted illness. The correspondent who forwards the news from England…
Continued on Trove, page 361 →Commandant Jean O'Brien, superior officer in the French army, son of Colonel O'Brien, of the Irish Brigade, the last soldier of the Irish Legion, died, at the advanced age of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE death of Mr. Ward Hunt will strike the country with surprise as well as regret. It was reported that his health had been much benefited by his stay at Homburg, and that he was to return to town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We learn from Queensland that Edward Powell, well-known pugilist, died near Towniville on August 28, from a sunstroke, consequently on having stood in ra ring or two hours of the 20th, in a light, which he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE death of the discoverer of guinine—the well-known chemist, M. Caventon, honorary President of the Academy of Medicine—has just occurred in this city at the age of 83, comparatively juvenile in these days of centenarians, a…
Continued on Trove, page 408 →Who killed Ward Hunt? "I" said torpedo; "For what e'er did he do; I killed Ward Hunt."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There has just died, in Pennsylvauic, a man who wan thirty years of ago when the rebellion of '98 broke out, and who fought for liberty throughout that gallant struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Right Rev. David Moriarty, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry; died of paralysis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rev. Dr. Morm[?]ty Bishop of Kerry is dead. The cause of death was paralysis. He was born August 18, 1814 at Derryvi[?] near Tralee, county Kerry, was educated at Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the…
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