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Obituaries & funerals, 1891

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Death of an Earl

Evening News · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, January 20.—The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness. [According to "Debrett," the Earldom of Caithness, a Scotch title created as far back as…

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Death of the Earl of Caithness. London, January 20

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 6

The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness…

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The Sunday Afternoon Funeral Train. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 4

Sir,—Yesterday afternoon I had the unpleasant occasion to attend a funeral at the Necropolis, for which purpose I took a first-class ticket, and for which [?] 2s, the second-class fare being 1s. Although…

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Obituary

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 6

NOWRA, Thursday.--Mr. R. Cadell, an old resident of Shoalhaven, died at Worrigee on Monday…

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Death of an Earl

Evening News · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, January 20.—The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness. [According to "Debrett," the Earldom of Caithness, a Scotch title created as far back as…

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Death of King Kalakaua

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A telegram received from San Francisco states that King David Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, is in a dying state in that city…

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Death of the King of Hawaii

Evening News · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.—The death of Kalakaua I., King of Hawaii, is announced. He died at San Francisco, having been travelling for some time in the United…

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Death of the Earl of Caithness

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness, aged 32 years…

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Obituary. London, Jan. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 7

The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness…

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Death of the Earl of Caithness. London, January 20

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 5

The death is announced of the Earl of Caithness…

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Peculiar Death of a Vagrant. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1891 · page 7

Shortly after 3 this morning a policeman on duty in King-street found the body of a vagrant named Robert Agnew, aged 30, on an iron picket fence in front of the Model…

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Death of a King

The Australian Star · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 6

ON account of the death of King Katakana, the Hawaiian, Portuguese and Peruvian flags were flying at half-mast at the offices of these consulates in Gresham-street, Mr…

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Eveleigh Railway Accident. Death of the Victim

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 5

As was expected the unfortunate man who was run over by a train in the Eveleigh railway tunnel yesterday (the particulars of which were reported in our first edition) succumbed…

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Death of the King of Hawaii. [By Cable.) (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 5

King David Kalakana of the Hawaiian Islands, died yesterday in San Francisco. The U.S. ship Charleston is under orders to convey the remains of the late King of…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 11

LONDON, January 18.—The death is announced of the Victorian artist, Mr. George Walton. LONDON, January 19.—The death is…

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The Late Mr. C. E. Mudie

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 194

Few names familiar to the ears of Londoners are more associated with agreeable services, in the supply of constant facilities of intellectual recreation, than "Mudie's." In the "Select Library" at 30 to 34…

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Death of Mrs. Hughes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 15

OUR North Shore correspondent writes :-"I regret to announce the death of Mrs. A. Hughes, of Longueville-read, Willoughby, The uncertainty of the hour of death received another illustration…

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Death of a Boy

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 5

The Deputy City Coroner, Mr. W.T. Pinhey, J.P., held an inquest at Rourke's Forth of Clyde Hotel, Balmain, yesterday afternoon, on the body of a boy named Walter Merriman, aged 14 years,…

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Death of a King

The Australian Star · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 6

ON account of the death of King Kalakana, the Hawaiian, Portuguese and Peruvian flags were flying at half-mast at the offices of these consulates in Gresham-street, Mr…

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Death of Mr. Bancroft. the American Historian

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 16

MR. George Bancroft, the distinguished American historian and diplomatist, died on Saturday in his 91st year…

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