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Hunter Valley · Churches

Churches, 1914

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Barber's Shop in a Church

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Rev. Carl Reiland, rector of the fashionable St. George Episcopal Church, New York, established a barber's shop for the choir. In…

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Methodist Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 4

In the absence of Rev. G. W. Payne, who is representing the Maitland district at conference, Rev. W. H. D. Butler, of Lecton-Yanco, will take the services to-morrow in…

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Presbyterian

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 8
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

A number of congregations are taking action with a view to securing funds towards rebuilding Dr. Bowie's hospital which was recently destroyed through volcanic…

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Methodist

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 8
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Rev. W. Jones, of Halesowen, has reached his ministerial diamond jubilee, and at eighty years of age is still preaching regularly on Sundays, often walking several…

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Parish of Gresford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 4

It is announced in the Church Standard of March 6, 1914, that the Rev. Cecil Newton Mell, B.A., stanton Chaplain, Diocese of Newcastle, has been appointed rector of…

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Roman Catholic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 10
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The Rev. Father Lloyd, parish priest of Moree, taken his departure by sea on March 25 for a twelve months trip abroad. He has gained such esteem and good feeling…

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Methodist Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 4

The enlarged stationing committee has made the following recommendations for the third and final reading of stations as affecting the maitland District. Rev. W. Halse…

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A Live Missionary Parish. Exhibition of Work at St. Paul's

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 13

"Although I say it in the presence of St. Paul's people, I say it unhesitatingly and without the slightest desire to flatter that St. Paul's people are worthy of the highest…

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South Africa. Tom Mann's Mission. London, March 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 2

The Labour newspapers describe the proposal to send Tom Mann to South Africa as a farce. The "Labour Leader" says he is the hod man who should so there at…

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Barber's Shop in a Church

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 3

The Rev. Carl Reiland, rector of the fashionable St. George Episcopal Church, New York, established a barber's shop for the choir. In…

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News of the Churches. Church of England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 10
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

Archdeacon Boyce left Sydney by the Eeneas for a 12-months' visit to England. Prior to his departure the Archdeacon was entertained at a crowded meeting in the…

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East Maitland Presbyterian Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 4

Yesterday the Right Rev. Alex Smith, of East Maitland, State Moderator, and Rev. Alex, Fraser, of Newcastle, exchanged pulpits, the occasion being the celebration of…

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Methodist Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 4

Saturday's pastoral session of the Methodist Conference was occupied with the status of probationers Revs. S. Bostock, Jones, J. C. Lawton, L. M. K. Mills, S…

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Aviator Winston Churchill

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 2

London, Saturday.—Mr Winston Churchill, First Admiralty Lord, has decided to obtain an airman's certificate. To do this it will be necessary…

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An Annoyed Minister. Church Opposition to Sunday Trains

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 2

Mr. Hoyle, the Assistant Treasurer, is annoyed at the opposition of the Evangelical Council to his proposal to run trains to the Blue Mountains on…

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