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Churches, 1900

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Removal of Parish Maps From the Lands Office. an Earnest Protest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 30

The Government has mysteriously decided to remove the parish maps from the Albury Lands Office. As these maps were largely availed of by residents of the country…

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Sketcher Haunted Churches

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 2

We who live at the close of this nineteenth century can hardly think it possible that the strange stories of ghost-haunted churches were once firmly believed…

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Catholic Bishop of Kimberley on the Boers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3

THE Right Rev. Dr. Gaughran, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kimberley, in a letter to the Boston Herald, says:-- "I can, with a safe conscience, say that…

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Sketcher. Haunted Churches

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

We who live at the close of this nineteenth century can hardly think it possible that the strange stories of ghost-haunted churches were once firmly believed…

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Church Coughers, Read This

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 5

Very many cases of chronic coughs are simply the result of habit. An eminent doctor once made the following suggestion about how to stop a cough:…

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Presbyterian Church, Howlong

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 3

THE usual quiet township of Howlong was very much astir on Sunday last, the occasion being the opening of the new Presbyterian Church. For a period of…

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Opening of the New Presbyterian Church at Howlong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 24

The sermon on the above occasion was preached by the Rev W. H. Cooper from the text—II Corinthians vi,, 1—"Workers together with Him." The preacher said:— "There was a…

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Howlong Presbyterian Church

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 March 1900 · page 3

THE [?]-meeting and concert, to celebrate the opening of the new church, was held in the Howlong Church on Wednesday evening last, and proved an unqualified…

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The Church Concert

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 28 March 1900 · page 4

In consequence of a rush of apace required in connection with the local Land Board Bitting we were only able to briefly mention the concert given at…

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Annual Congregational Meeting of Presbyterian Church, Germanton

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 27

The annual meeting of the congregation of the Presbyterian Church was held on Friday evening, 23rd inst., to receive the various reports and balance sheets for the year 1899…

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Irish Catholic University. Bill Rejected by the Commons

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 16

A bill for the granting of a charter for a Roman Catholic university in Ireland has been negatived in the House of Commons by 177 to 91 votes…

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An Historic Church

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 19

The Great Fire of 1666 (says the London Daily Telegraph) swept away most of the old churches of London ; nothing is left of them but here and there a relic built into the more modern…

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Mr. Winston Churchill. Describes His Adventures

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 27

Mr. Winston Churchill has two long letters in the Morning Post, the one describing the armoured train incident, and the other some of his experiences in the…

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Howlong Presbyterian Church

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 17

The tea-meeting and concert to celebrate the opening of the new church was held in the local School of Arts on the 2lst ult., and proved an unqualified success it being freely admitted that…

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Darlington Point. a Look at the Warangesda Mission

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 16

Your correspondent made his periodical salaam to the "Home of Mercy" (for this is the interpretation of Warangesda) on Saturday last, and was much pleased with the improved aspect of…

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The Roman Catholic Bazaar

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

THIS function, which as stated in Tuesday's issue, was opened in the School of Arts on Monday night, was continued on Tuesday, Wednesday and last night. In…

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Rowdyism in a Church

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 28

"A Lover of Common Decency" writes to the Nyngan Observer:—" Last Friday evening in the Wesleyan Church, Mr. Kem Yee, a Chinese missionary, gave an…

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Presbyterian Church Social

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

A social evening was held at the Presbyterian Sunday-school Room on Wednesday night for the purpose of welcoming the Rev. Mr. Welsh and his wife, the Rev. gentlemen having only recently…

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The Wesleyan Church. The Century Fund

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

The Rev. Rainsford Bavin, the Organising Secretary of the Wesleyan Century Commemoration Fund, who is on a visit, to this district, was present at a social gathering…

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A Curious Church Prison

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

Eleven miles from Witney, in Oxfordshire, stands the old townlet of Burford, a place but little altered during the last two hundred years, and full of interest…

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