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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1862

14 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Pews in Churches

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 7 May 1862 · page 3

THE following correspondence appeared in the Queensland Guardian, of the 24th and 26th April:—THE EASTER MEETING…

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Church Land at Newcastle

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 5 July 1862 · page 4

Mr. Faucett moved, "for leave to bring in a bill to enable the Most Rev. John Bede Polding, the Right Rev. Henry Gregory Gregory, and the Very Rev. John…

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Annual Meeting. Newcastle Auxiliary Branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Church Sustentation and Extension Society

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 30 July 1862 · page 2

According to announcement, the usual annual meeting of this most useful institution was held in the Wesleyan Chapel, on Monday evening last, the Rev.W. Hill, its much…

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Primitive Methodist Connexion. Report of the Conference of 1862

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 23 August 1862 · page 3

[We willingly publish the following, as we feel confident it will prove of interest to a large and valued portion of our constituents; for in this town, at least, the Primitive Methodists have by their zeal and earnestness, won…

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St. John's Church

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 24 September 1862 · page 2

ON Sunday lost the Rev. E. K. Yeatman delivered, what might be termed, his fare-well sermon to his parishioners. The Rev. gentleman selected for his text the 17th…

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Raymond Terrace. Consecration of St. John's Church

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 27 September 1862 · page 2

Thursday last will be a day long to be remembered by the inhabitants of his district, as seeing the completion of a worklong necessitated, oud which, from what we could glean…

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West Maitland. Meeting of the Church Union

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 8 October 1862 · page 2

The inhabitants of this town seem to be particularly fortunate in one respect, and that is in the number of pleasant, social, institutions established amongst them; and which, are…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Tuesday, October 7. The Newcastle Church Land Sale Bill, was read a third time and passed. Wednesday, October 8

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 11 October 1862 · page 4

The Co-operative Coal Company's Bill was brought up from the Assembly and read a first time, on the motion of Mr. Scott. Mr. Kemp presented a petition from the…

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Third Anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Society

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 15 October 1862 · page 2

ANNIVERSARIES are peculiar [?]chs in our lives, looked forward to with anxiety, and celebrated with gladness; for, strange as the assertion may seem, the older we get the better…

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Report of Proceedings of the District Meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, New South Wales

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 29 November 1862 · page 4

THE meeting having been opened with devotional exercises, the Rev. C. W. Rigg was elected secretary. The following ministers were present:—…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Thursday, November 27. Legislative Assembly. Parish Road, Newcastle

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 December 1862 · page 4

Mr. W. Forster naked the Secretary for Lands, with reference to a notice issued by the Department of Lands, and dated September 24th, 1862, proclaiming as a parish…

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West Maitland. St. Paul's Church Union

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 December 1862 · page 2

IN whatever else West Maitland may be deficient, she is decidedly very far our superior in those undertakings that tend so much to break down those icy barriers of reserve that exist…

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Congregational Church, Newcastle

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 December 1862 · page 2

The anniversary services in connection with the above church, were held on Sunday and Monday last. On Sunday, the Rev. S. C. Kent preached to excellent congregations…

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The Goldfields of Victoria. a Paper, Read by Mr. A. Gray, at a Meeting of the Members of St. Paul's Church Union, on Monday; 1st December, 1852. Recollections of a Two Years' Sojourn on the Victorian Gold-fields Balaarat, Fiery Creek, Simpson's Rangers &c

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 17 December 1862 · page 4

An imigrant's preconceived idea of the diggings is, I imagine, seldom realized— at all events mine was not; nor did my idea of the digger himself at nil coincide with the…

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