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Hunter Valley · Churches

Churches, 1899

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Church Parade at St. Mary's

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 February 1899 · page 4

Taking advantage of the presence of the band of the New South Wales Lancers, Captain Markwell arranged for the holding of a military church parade yesterday which proved to be very…

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The Roman Catholic Church. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

The Pope yesterday gave audience to a number of Irish pilgrims. In addressing them his Holiness said that England's return to Catholicism was…

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Renewal Mission at St. Patrick's

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

After completing a week's mission of a most successful nature at Broke and Glennie's Creek (during which nearly 300 persons received Holy Communion), Fathers…

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Funds of the Church of England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

Voluntary offerings of the Church of England amount to six and half millions sterling, exclusive of pew rents, being half a million in excess of the offerings during 1897…

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Anglican Offerings for 1898. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 2

The annual returns of the Church of England for 1898 disclose marked progress. The voluntary offerings for the year totalled £7,500,000, exclusive…

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Church-Building Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 5

As a rule soldiers are destructive rather than constructive, and although now and again they leave a land richer in the way of roads and forts, it is not to the soldiers or to…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 6

The Rev. John Watson, a retired minister of the Church of England, died at Brunswick, Victoria, on Tuesday, aged 85. The Pope remarked to a deputation of Irish…

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Church Parade at St. Mary's

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 13

Taking advantage of the presence of the band of the New South Wales Lancers, Captain Markwell arranged for the holding of a military church parade on Sunday, which proved to be very…

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Mission at St. Patrick's

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 February 1899 · page 2

The week's renewal mission concladed at St. Patrick's on Sunday evening last, 19th inst., when the renewal of the baptismal vows was made and the Papal Benediction…

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Our Singleton Letter Mission at St. Patrick's

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 February 1899 · page 2

The week's renewal mission concluded at St. Patrick's on Sunday evening, when tke renewal of baptismal vows was made and the Papal Benediction administered. In the course of his final…

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Warrengesda Mission Station. Adversely Criticised. a Breeding Ground of Illegitimate Children. Narrandera

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 3

At the Narrandera Criminal Court to-day William Louis Gordon, a half caste aboriginal, was arraigned on a charge of committing an indecent assault on a half-caste married woman named Mary Howel, at…

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Ball-playing in Church

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

A singular custom is observed at Auxerre, on Easter Day; the canons, in the very centre of the great church, playing solemnly at ball. Vespers being sung, instead of…

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Diocese of Newcastle. Association of Church Workers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 2

A meeting of the Association of Church workers in the Central Archdeaconry, Diocese of Newcastle, was held at Paterson last evening. The Rev. Arthur Kiltworth, L.L.B., the Rev. W. Tollis, and…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 3

Father Luck, brother of the late Bishop Luck, died in New Zealand on Saturday at noon. The Pope in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, condemns the doctrines held by Father…

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The English Church Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 3

Seven hundred delegates, representing two hundred and sixty branches of the English Church Union, tumultuously applauded Lord Halifax's statement that disestablishment and disendowment…

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The English Church Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 3

The English Church Union has presented a memorial to the Queen and also to parliament affirming the Church's independence of parliament and the Courts in matters of doctrine and…

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Warrengesda Mission Station

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 13

At the Narrandera Criminal Court, William Louis Gordon, a half- caste aboriginal, was arraigned on a charge of committing an indecent assault on a half-caste married woman named Mary Howel, at…

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Making Church Attractive

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 9

The following amusing satire appears in the Monthly Packet (London): They were deciding on next Sunday's service. "We begin at the Lord's Prayer, of course," said…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 6

The Pope, whose serious illness is reported by cable, was eighty-nine years old on Thursday. A bazaar recently held at Cundletown in aid of the Catholic presbytery building fund realised £100…

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