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Obituaries & funerals, 1884

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Cable Messages Death of Signora Taglioni

Evening News · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 4

LONDON, April 23.—Signora Taglioni, the famous ballet dancer, is dead. She had for some time past resided in London, and was in her 80th year…

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Obituary. HON. W. M. ALDEESON

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 19

THE Hon. William Maddison Aldersea, M.L.C., expired at his residence at 8 a.m. last Monday, the immediate cause of death being acute bronchitis. Mr. Aldorson carrie out to this colony over 50 years…

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Reported Death of Prince Kung. Shanghai, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 12

Advices from Pekin are to the effect that a report is current there that Prince Kung, who was recently degraded, has committed suicide…

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The Death-bed of a Freethinker. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 9

Sir, -- Yon give a report in your Monday's issue of a sermon preached on Sunday last, the subject being the deathbed of a freethinker, the supposed freethinker being the late Mr Frank Dixon, Permit us…

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Death of Captain Simpson

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 April 1884 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The death is announced of Captain Simpson, for years connected with the intercolonial and coastal trade. His death occurred from a paralytic stroke. Great regret is expressed…

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Death of Captain Simpson. ADELAIDE

Evening News · Monday 28 April 1884 · page 4

The death is announced of Captain Simpson, for many years connected with the intercolonial and coastal trade. His death occurred from a paralytic stroke. The flags of the ships in port…

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Reported Death of Prince Kung. London, April 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1884 · page 5

Latest accounts from Pekin contradict the report that was spread abroad that Prince Kung, the ex-Prime Minister, who was dismissed from office and publicly degraded…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 12
Also in The Daily Telegraph

MR. JOHN CALDWELL.—Mr. John Caldwell died at Goulburn on April., Mr. Caldwell at one time took a rather prominent part in politics. He had been in business in Sydney as a grocer for many years, and at the time of…

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Death of Sir Michael Bass

Evening News · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 2

LONDON, April 30.—The death is announced, at the age 47, of Sir Michael Arthur Rass, M.P. for East Staffordshire, and also a partner in the firm of Bass and Co…

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Death of Sir Michael Costa

Evening News · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 2

LONDON, April 30.—The death is announced of Sir Michael Costs, musical composer, at the age of 74…

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Death of Sir Michael Costa. London, April 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 9

The death is announced of Sir Michael Costa, musical composer, at the age of 74…

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Death of Sir Michael Bass. London, April 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 9

The death is announced, at the age of 47, of Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M.P. for East Staffordshire, and also a partner in the firm of Bass and Co…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 May 1884 · page 11

LONDON, April 30.—The, death is announced of Sir Michael Costa, musical composer, at the age of 74. LONDON, April 30—The death is announced…

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Death of Madame Anna Bishop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1884 · page 6

The death of Madame Anna Bishop was recently announced in a telegram from New York. She was (says the Times) an English vocalist of world-wide celebrity in her day, though almost forgotten by the present generation…

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Death of Madame Anna Bishop

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 May 1884 · page 1

A telegram from New York announces the death from apoplexy of the celebrated vocalist Madame Anna Bishop. Born in 1814, Ann Riviere was in her childhood a pupil for piano-playing of Moscheles…

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Funeral of a Roman Catholic Colonist. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 May 1884 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday.--The funeral of Dr. Gunson, a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory, and a great leading Roman Catholic colonit, took place today. Requiem mass was celebrated at the Roman…

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Death of the Empress Dowager of Austria. London, May 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1884 · page 7

The Empress Dowager of Austria is dead…

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Original Poetry. Thoughts of a Daughter Shortly After the Death of Her Beloved Mother

Evening News · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 7

Lost in affection's dream, I linger yet On the mysterious threshold of the past, Haunted by scenes this heart can ne'er forget, A record of the days too bright too last!…

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Death of the Duke of Albany. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Albany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 5

The P. and O. Company's B.M.S. Parramatta, which, arrived to-day from Colombo, brings the following detailed account of the death of the Duke of Albany:—…

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