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Obituaries & funerals, 1889

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 10

FATHER GAVAZZI.—Among the priests who espoused the cause of Garibaldi, and took part in the remarkable revolution which established the kingdom of Italy, and deprived the Pope of his…

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Death of a Publican

The Australian Star · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 6

DUBBO, This Day.--Mr. F. J. O'Leary, of O'Leary's Hotel, died suddenly on Wednesday night. He was not well on Tuesday, but nothing serious was thought…

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Death of Lupton Bey

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--A native messenger who has arrived at Suakim from Khartoum reports that Lupton Bey died in May last in Equatorial Africa. He had been a captive…

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Death of Dean Leonard

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 15

WITH every sentiment of regret and sorrow we chronicle the melancholy intelligence that the Very Rev. Thomas Leonard has passed away. On Thursday, at the ago of 60, the Dean closed…

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Death of a Skipper

The Australian Star · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, This Day.--Samul M Burney, skipper of the steamer Buny[?] who had his head split open by a brisk falling on him while unloading a cargo of…

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Death of the Rev. P. Lanigan

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 17

IT is our melancholy duty to record the death of the Rev. Patrick Lanigan, which took place at the Bishop's house, Goulburn, on Thursday last. The cause of death was consumption, from which…

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Cablegrams. (From Our Correspondent.) Death of Lupton Bey. London, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 11

News has been received from Khartoum announcing the death of Lupton Bey, who was formerly in command of the Equatorial Province of the Soudan, but was captured…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story; an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xxiv.--the Gale Breaks

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 10

On the sixth day, during dinner, Vanderdecken said we had seen the worst of the storm. There was a small lull in the wind, and a faintness sifting up, so to speak, from behind…

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Death of the Head of the Turkish Church

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--The death is announced of Sheik-ul-Islam, the head of the Church in Turkey…

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The Turkish Church. Death of the Sheikh-ul-islam. London. January 20

The Australian Star · Monday 21 January 1889 · page 5

The death is announced of the Sheikh-ul-Islam, head of the Mohammedan Church in Turkey…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story; an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved.] CHAPTER XXIV.--Continued

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1889 · page 3

He made a face and spat behind his hand, which caused me to see that sailors in all times have been alike in the capacity of grumbling, and that even in this man, who by virtue of the…

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Death of a Spanish Statesman

Evening News · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.-The death is announced of Marshal de Quesada, formerly Minister for War in the Spanish Cabinet…

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Death of a Hargraves Resident

Evening News · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 3

MUDGEE, Monday.-A man named Robert Sellings was admitted to the Mudgee Hospital on Saturday morning suffering from an abscess on the calf of his leg. He died at 8 o'clock the same…

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Sudden Death of a Woman

The Australian Star · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 6

AN inquest was commenced before the acting coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., at the South Sydney morgue to-day, into the circumstances attending the death of a…

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Death of a Crown Lands Agent

The Australian Star · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 5

NOWRA, This Day.--Great regret is expressed here at the sudden death of Mr. Prosper N. De Mestre, Crown Lands agent at Lismore. Deceased was born in…

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Western Australia. Death of a Murderer

The Australian Star · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 5

PERTH, This Day.--The man Johnson, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. MacPherson, has been found dead about 18 miles from Newcastle. A gun was lying across his…

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Death of a Crown Lands Agent

The Australian Star · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 5

LISMORE, This Day.--Prospre Morrisett De Mestre, Crown Lands agent, died on Saturday night. The funeral took place on Sunday, and was the largest over seen…

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Death of a Spanish Statesman. London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 7

The death is announced of Marshal de Quesada, formerly Minister for War in the Spanish Cabinet…

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Death of a Woman

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 9

The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Emily Cronin, who was found dead at her residence, No. 2 Roseborough-place, off Wilmot-street, on Saturday last, was…

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Sudden Death of a Woman

The Australian Star · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 2

THE adjourned inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Emily Cronin, who died suddenly on Saturday night last, was resumed before the…

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