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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Churches

Churches, 1880

12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Church and Racing Matters in the "Cathedral City."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 4

THE Armidale Express says:—In one day we have the painful duty to perform of reporting two meetings called for the same purpose to discuss means of discharging liabilities incurred…

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Churchwardens and Pewholders

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 3

A SINGULAR case in which churchwardens figured as plaintiffs, trying to recover pew rents from parishioners, was heard on the 2nd instant in the Small Debts Court at Mudgee. The plaintiffs, were the Hon…

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Church of England. Annual Meeting of the Congregation of Christ Church

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 8

ON Tuesday evening, 30th March, the annual meeting of the congregation of Christ Church was held in the church. The attendance was rather limited. The Rev. Mr.Greenway (the incumbent) presided, and…

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Wesleyan Church, Grafton

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1880 · page 2

THE anniversary services in connection with this Church were held on Sunday List, the Rev. W. Stephinson preaching in the morning, the Rev. G. Glasson in the evening. On Wednesday evening last, the annual tea and public…

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Consecration of the R. C. Church, Cowper

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1880 · page 2

ON Sunday last the Church of the Holy Trinity, Cowper, was consecrated and opened for Divine worship by the Right Rev, the Bishop of Armidale, assisted by the priests of the mission—the Revs. Futher…

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Good Templarism and the Christian Church. [Communicated.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1880 · page 3

"WOULD'ST thou be useful? Think not of thyself; Be as the stream that stands not at its source, But flowing onward cheers the thirsty fields That wait its course…

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Good Templarism and the Christian Church. (Continued from June 4.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1880 · page 3

MANY good Christian men may exclaim, I admit all this, and do practically abstain, but do not see the use of joining a temperance society and making a fuss about teetotalism. I would remind such an one that,…

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Church Ald and Independency

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1880 · page 4

THE Church Ald Soceity, which held its annual meeting the other day at the Memorial Hall asour[?] readers would see from a Summarised account of the proccedings given in our List…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 2

Sunday. August 22.—Christ Church, Grafton, Service at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. St. Matthew's, South Grafton, 3.30 p.m. —Rev. C. C. Greenway, Trinity Church, Alumny Creek, 3 p.m.—Lay Helper. Bu[?]mbi, Service at 10.30 a.m.;…

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Religious Memoranda. Roman Catholic Church

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 2

Sunday, August 20—St. Mary's Gratton, Mass at 11 a.m.: Vespers and Benediction at 7.30 p.m. South Grafton, Mass at 9.30 a.m. Dalmorton (Mr D. Behan's), Mass at 11 a.m. Monday, August 30—Baccarumbi, Mass at 9 a.m…

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The Catholic Vote at the General Election. (From The Freeman's Journal.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1880 · page 4

THE political atmosphere is thickening, and men of delicate sensibility find some difficulty in brenthing, Political ambitions and aspirations are gathering force, and unexpected candidates for public favour and…

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Modern Teaching in Scotch Churches

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 8

THE Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland have caught Professor Robertson Smith at last. In May a decision was given by the Assembly on a question of supposed hereby, restoring Professor Smith to his chair…

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