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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Churches

Churches, 1874

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Lotteries and Churches

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 4

WE abridge the subjoined from The Australian Witness (Sept. 5):--The vice of gambling has become, according to the recent testimony of secular as well as of religious journals, one of…

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St. Clement's Church, Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 13 October 1874 · page 2

A MEETING of members of the Church of England in this parish was held on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of conferring with the Venerable Archdeucon Puddicombe, who had expressed a…

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Wesleyan Church Anniversary

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 October 1874 · page 2

THE annual sermons in connection with the Wesleyan new church were preached on Sunday morning and evening, by the Rev. J. H. Fletcher, president of the conference, to large and attentive…

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Wesleyan Church Anniversary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 15 October 1874 · page 1

THE third anniversary in connection with the opening of the New Wesleyan Church in Goulburn was celebrated on Monday evening by a tea and public meeting. The tables for the former were…

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Catholic School, Murrumburrah

The Burrowa News · Saturday 17 October 1874 · page 2

The midwinter examination of the above school which was postponed on account of wet weather, was held on Friday the 9th inst The schoolroom festooned with evergreens and thronged…

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Church of England Education Defence Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1874 · page 4

This Association has been formed for the purpose of advocating and securing by all legitimate means, the maintainance of the Existing System of Public Education, as provided for by the Public…

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Correspondence. St. Clement's Churchmen. Per favour of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 October 1874 · page 2

DEARLY BELOVED,--It was my intention to have invited you to moot me this Friday evening, to confer upon the position in which the parochial district of Yass is placed by the lamentable…

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Church of England Education Defence Association

The Burrowa News · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 4

THIS Association has been formed for the purpose of advocating and securing, by all legitimate, means, the maintenance of the Existing System of Public Education, as provided for by the public…

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N.s.w. Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society. Annual Meeting

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 October 1874 · page 2

THE customary annual meeting of the members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in this district was hold on Tuesday evening. The attendance was tolerably numerous. Mr. W. Davies…

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Correspondence. St. Clement's Church, Yass. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 October 1874 · page 3

SIR, -- Your brief paragraph is calculated to mislead any who are not aware of the arrangements made by me for some ministrations upon my return back to Goulburn for next Sunday duties,…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1874 · page 2

THE annual meeting in connection with the above was held in the lecture hail last evening. The attendance was not very large, although it was a most respectable one…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1874 · page 2

ON Sunday sermons were preached in the new church, in the morning by the Rev. W. H. George, in the evening by the Rev. W Hill, to large congregations, and collections were made in aid of…

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Primitive Methodist. Laying the Foundation-stone of a Church Near Green Gully

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 5 November 1874 · page 2

THE very interesting ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a church about three or four miles on the Goulburn side of Mummell, close to the Mummell road, and about a couple of miles…

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Church of England Working Men’s Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 5 November 1874 · page 2

THE half-yearly general meeting of the members of the above association was held in St. Saviour’s schoolroom on Tuesday evening. There was a very good attendance, the chair being occupied by…

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Parksburn Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school Anniversary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 2

ON last Sabbath, November 8th, two sermons were preached by the Rev. J. Penman in connection with the above ; and considering the boisterous and rather threatening state of the weather, the…

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St. Andrew's Church. Induction of the Rev. Mr. Gardner

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 November 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, in St. Andrew's Church, the Moderator of the Goulburn Prosbytery (the Rev. Mr. Grimm, of Young) inducted the Rev. Mr. Gardner into the pastoral charge of the Yass…

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Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1874 · page 2

A public meeting in connection with the above was held in the Bradley-street church on Tuesday evening. The attendance was rather small on account of the inclemency of the weather ; but…

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St. Andrew's Church Annual Tea-meeting and Concert

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 December 1874 · page 2

LAST evening the annul tea-meeting and concert in connexion with the above church were held in the hall of the mechanics' institute. The hall, which was tastefully decorated with green boughs, flowers,…

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Marengo Catholic Church

The Burrowa News · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 2

The report of the ceremony of laying and blessing the foundations of the above Church, on the 4th instant, has come too late to hand to give it in extenso…

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Church of England Working Mens’ Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting of members of the above association was held on Thursday evening. The President (Rev. F. R. Seaborn) in the chair. There was a good attendance of members. The…

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