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Obituaries & funerals, 1886

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The Death of Mrs. A. Stuart. Coroner's Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 6

The City Coroner yesterday morning began an inquiry at the residence of Professor Anderson Stuart, No. 12 Toxteth-road, Glebe Point, into the circumstances attending the lamentable…

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Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart. a Supposed Victim of Opiates

Evening News · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 6

The City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, opened an inquiry yesterday, in the residence of Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, into the death of his wife, Mrs. Eliza Stuart, whose body was found in her bed on Sunday…

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The Manapouri Disaster. Death of the Third Officer. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday.--Mr. Lakers, the third officer of the steamship Maunpouri, who was affected by the fumes from the explosion of the case of nitric acid, died this…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Special Correspondent.) Death of Mr. Delves Broughton. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 7

The death is announced of Mr. Delves Broughton, formerly Deputy Master of the Mint at Melbourne…

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The FIRE on BOARD the Manapouri. Death of the Third Officer. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 8

The services of two surveyors and one clerk in the Survey Department in the Northern Territory are to be dispensed with. Several boats are to be sold, and a number of boatmen discharged…

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Obituary

Evening News · Wednesday 3 March 1886 · page 4

LONDON, March 2.—The death is announced of Mr. Clarke, formerly a County Court Judge of Victoria. The death is also announced of the Duke of Seville, of Spain…

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Obituary. London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1886 · page 9

The death is announced of Mr. Clarke, formerly County Court Judge of Victoria. The death is also announced of the Duke of Seville, of Spain…

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Obituary

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1886 · page 5

London, Tuesday.--Mr. Langton Clarke, at one time a County Court judge in Victoria, is dead…

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Death of Mrs. Laurence Oliphant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1886 · page 5

The death is announced of Mrs. Laurence Oliphant. It occurred at Haipha, in Syria, where her husband has been settled for some years Miss Octavie L'Estrange who was of French origin on the father's side, lived at Paris with…

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Overdose of Morphia. Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 5

The City Coroner (Mr. EL Shiell) resumed his inquiry to-day, in the residence of Professor Anderson Stuart, Toxteth-street, Glebe, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart,…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 11

LONDON, March 1.—The death is announced of Mr. V. Delves Broughton, formerly Deputy Master of the Mint in Melbourne, who was removed to England some time ago in an unsound…

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Death of Dr. Power

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Dr. Power, well-known in Brisbane and the southern capitals, died at Gympie early this morning. He was a brother of Messrs. Virgil Power,…

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The Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart. Coroner's Inquest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 10

Yesterday the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell. J.P.) resumed and concluded the inquiry at No.12, Toxtethroad, Globe Point, into the circumstances attending the death of Elizabeth Anderson Stuart, wife of Professor…

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The Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart. an Overdose of Morphia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 6

The inquest touching the death of Mrs Anderson Stuart, the wife of Professor Anderson Stuart, was resumed by the City Coroner yesterday morning at the residence of Professor Stuart,…

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Suspicious Death of a Woman in Wexford-street. Coroner's Inquest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 10

Mr. H.Shiell, J. P., City Coroner, commenced an inquiry at the South Sydney morgue yesterday, touching the death of a widow named Mary Rose. The following evidence was taken:—…

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Death of a Child

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1886 · page 4

A child named John Anderson Laing, aged 5½ months, the son of a laborer residing in Darling-street, Balmain, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. From the statement of Senior-constable…

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Death of a Clergyman. MELBOURNE, Monday, March 8

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1886 · page 6

The Rev. Jones Hamer, incumbent of the Collins-street Independent Church, during the last four years, died on Sunday in Rotorua, New Zealand, from pneumonia. He was 41 years of age, and has left a…

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Death of the Rev. D. Jones Hamer. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1886 · page 10

Intelligence has been received of the death in New Zealand-of the Rev. D. Jones Hamer, the minister of the Collins-street Independent Church, the leading church of the Congregational body in Victoria,…

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The Late Mr. Haslingden

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 535

On Friday, February 19, Mr. Edward Haslingden, a very old colonist, died at Coohomata, in the Bega district. Mr. Haslingden was born at Manchester in 1810, and landed in Sydney 22 years later, from the…

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Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 8

The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell) resumed his inquiry, March 5, in tho residence of Professor Anderson Stuart, Toxteth-street, Globe, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart,…

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