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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Churches

Churches, 1889

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Coughing in Church

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 4

WHOEVER (says the Lancet) has attended a place of worship must have noticed that the storm of coughing which prevails therein, and the throat clearing…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

THE following roads have been confirmed, and it is declared expedient to open and make them according to the plans and books of reference, to be seen…

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The Free and United Churches of Scotland. LONDON, Jan. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

Parleyings are being renewed with a view to the union of the Free and United Churches of Scotland…

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Roman Catholic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 January 1889 · page 2

THIS evening at 7 o'clock vespers for the dead will be recited at Sts. Peter and Paul's Cathedral for the late Father Lanigan. Tomorrow morning from 6 o'clock a number of…

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Goulburn Ladies' City Mission and Strangers' Relief Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 9th. Present—the President (Mrs. Morisset), Mesdames Craig, Barber, Wombey, Harmer, Dalton, Joplin, and Oliver…

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Christ Church Sunday School.—West Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 3

The annual distribution of prizes to the scholars attending the above school took place on Thursday evening last. While books were given to those who had distinguished themselves in the…

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Opening of the New Wesleyan Church

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 4

THE new Wesleyan Church at North Goulburn will be opened to-morrow (Sunday). Several services will be beld. On Monday evening there will be a tea and afterwards a…

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Presbyterian Church

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

ON Friday evening last a congregational meeting an connection with the Presbyterian Church, Yass, was held in the vestry of the Church, for the purpose of presenting the reports and…

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Opening of North Goulburn Wesleyan Church

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

THE opening ceremonies in connection with the church recently erected by the Wesleyan body in North Goulburn commended on Sunday last. A prayer meeting was held in the morning, and…

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Church of England Temperance Society.—Christ Church Parish

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 2

THE members of the above society held their monthly meeting as usual under the presidency of the Rev. Canon Scores on Wednesday evening last. The treasurer was in his place,-and after…

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North Goulburn Wesleyan Church

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 2

THE opening services of the new Wesleyan church at North Goulburn were held on Sunday and Monday Inst. At seven a.m. on Sunday a prayer-meeting under the leadership of the Rev. A. J. Webb was…

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Proposed Wesleyan Church at Garfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 2

A PIECE of land having been purchased in Francis-street a trust has been formed comprising a number of gentlemen, who held their first meeting last Wednesday evening in…

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The Pope's Gifts to Irish Churches. LONDON, Jan. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 4

His Holiness the Pope has forwarded gifts, valued at £10,000, to be distributed among the Catholic Churches in Ireland…

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Local & General News. Blessing and Opening Ceremony of St. Augustine's Church

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 January 1889 · page 2

SUNDAY, the 20th January instant is a day that will not soon be forgotten by the Catholics of the parish and district of Yass, for on that day the imposing ceremony of blessing and…

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The Russian Mission to Abyssinia

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 4

With reference to the proposed Russian mission to Abyssinia, the following appeared in the St. James's Gazette of December 8: A missionary expedition is leaving Odessa…

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Blessing and Opening Ceremony of St. Augustine's Church, Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 8

SUNDAY, the 20th January instant, is a day that will not soon be forgotten by the Catholics of the parish and district of YASS, for on that day the imposing…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1889 · page 5

IT having been deemed expedient to open and make the following parish roads, notice is given that plans and books of reference, showing the intended lines of the roads in question, are now…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 7

The following roads has been confirmed ; and it is declared expedient to open and make them according to the plans and books of reference, to be seen…

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The Catholic Mission

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

IN a recent issue we allnded to the beautiful decorations which the Very Rev. Dean O'Keeffe had only just then had completed in St Augustine's Church, thus causing the…

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The New Roman Catholic Church at Moruya

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

MOBUYA, Monday.—A handsome new Roman Catholic Church at Moruya was opened and solemnly consecrated by Cardinal Moran yesterday The Rev. Father Cassidy, parish priest,…

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