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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
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THE funeral of the late Rev. John Donmore Lang, D.D., took place last Saturday afternoon, and was one of the largest that has taken place in the Australian colonies. The weather was all that could be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queen Mercedes of Spain died on Wednesday forenoon, June 26, from an attack of gastric fever. Since Tuesday night the attending physicians had given up all hope of her recovery. She expired in the arms of the King,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. THOMAS SPENCE, J.P.—In the obituary of the past month occurs the name of Mr. Thomas Spence, once Major, and for many years an alderman of Sydney. He died last Thursday week. His arrival in the colony dates as far…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the 8th instant the Rev. John Dunmore Lang, D.D., Presbyterian minister, and one of our oldest and bestknown Australian colonists, died at his residence, Jamison-street, after a brief illness, in the seventy-ninth year of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. MacGahan was buried at Constantinople on the 11th June. The pall was hold by the correspondents of the Daily News, Times, Telegraph, Standard, and Graphic. General Skobelaff, Colonel Chambers Maynard, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday, June 24, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, died the most celebrated light comedian of our day, Charles James Mathews. He had been staying in the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, for about a fortnight, suffering from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Edgerton, a well-known resident of Windsor, died last evening. The Coroner held an inquest this morning at the Custom House Hotel, on the body of one George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rev. George Gilfillan, of Dundee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TELEGRAPHIC intelligence, dated Melbourne, Wednesday, announces the death of Edward Henty, Esq., J.P., the first settler in Victoria. The deceased gentleman was one of seven brothers—James, Stephen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The remains of the deceased were interred on Tuesday in Jesmond Cemetery, Newcastle, in presence of a vast concourse of spectators. Campbell, while confined to his bed, occupied a room on the third…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A letter from Mr. A. Riley of Riley Brothers, of this city, who is travelling in Europe, was received a few days ago, and the writer says that Mr. Walter Renny, who left Sydney with him in one of the Suez…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mortal remains of the late Rev. John Dunmore Lang, D.D., were buried in the Devonshire-street cemetery on Saturday, in the presence of an immense concourse of citizens. In consideration of his long and eminent public…
Continued on Trove, page 267 →Queen Mercedes of Spain died on Wednesday forenoon, June 26, from an attack of gastric fever. Since Tuesday night the attending physicians had given up all hope of her recovery. She expired in the arms of the King,…
Continued on Trove, page 269 →THE funeral of the late Rev. John Dunmore Lang, D.D., took place last Saturday afternoon, and was one of the largest that has taken place in the Australian colonies. The weather was all that could be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, landlord of the Duke of Wellington public-house, High Bridge, Newcastle, and widely known as the Scottish Giant, died at that establishment late in June. He had been ill about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TELEGRAPHIC intelligence, dated Melbourne, Wednesday, announces the death of Edward Henty, Esq., J.P., the first settler in Victoria. The deceased gentleman was one of seven brothers—James, Stephen,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →HER breed wing spreading to the breeze, she called in all her pride For the shores of far Australia—O'er the waste of waters wide; France on her weather quarter—on her our father land,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General William M'Bain, V.C., died on June 23 at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. His career has been of ten quoted as an extraordinary example of promotion in the army. From junior drummer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is with gnat regret that we announce the death of Mr. Conrad Martens, the Sydney artist par excellence, In art circles all over the world Mr. Martens works were deservedly admired, and it is not too much to say…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a long and protracted illness, the above gentleman expired at his residence fn Parramatta fart night, at 9 o'clock. For nearly twenty years he acted there in the capacity of a magistrate, cleric of…
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