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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1885

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A Methodist Speaks. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 7

SIR,—I see by a report in your Friday's issue that a motion was moved by Mr. Buchanan and seconded by Mr. Moss, in the Plattsburg Council, that the council…

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TELEGRAMS. Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—There was a large congregation at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday. Archbishop Moran opened a special mission of the Roman Catholic…

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The Mission to the South Seas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Rev. J. G. Paton has succeeded in raising £4000 in the United Kingdom for the furtherance of mission work in the South Seas…

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St. John's Church.—Easter Vestry Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 3

ON Easter Tuesday, 7th April, the annual vestry meeting was held in St. John's Schoolroom, at 7.30 p.m. The incumbent (Rev. F. D. Bode) occupied the chair…

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The Fair Captive or the Renegade of the West. Chapter I. Our Hero and His Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 8

IN November, 1847, a London merchant and his family—Mr. and Mrs. Howe, and Florence, their only child, a girl of fourteen—while travelling in…

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Extraordinary Scene in Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1885 · page 7

A MOST Painful and exciting scene occurred at the Pleasant-street church on Sunday night. The Pastor of the church being absent, a well-known…

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Church of England Grammar School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1885 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Rev. A. J. Wilson, B.D., has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. J. H. Pyne, M.A., as Principal of the Church of England…

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A Maori Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—Dr. Vaughan, now at Rome, is making arrangements for a mission among the Maoris…

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Tighe's Hill. Primitive Methodist Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1885 · page 2

On Sunday and Monday last the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School held their anniversary. On Sunday the several services were literally packed;…

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England and Persia. a British Military Mission. the Persian Frontier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—It is reported that a British military mission will be immediately despatched to the Court at Teheran with the view of inducing the Persian…

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Lord Churchill in Opposition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—Lord Churchill continues to display strong opposition to the Government, and urges the House to refuse to grant supplies…

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New Roman Catholic Church on Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1885 · page 5

A VERY large and enthusiastic meeting of ladies and gentleman was held in the Catholic Church schoolroom on Sunday last, for the purpose of taking steps to liquidate…

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Mr. Beecher on Coughing in Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 11

WHEN Mr. Beecher had concluded his prayer on Sunday morning, about half the people present relieved themselves of pent up coughs. The pastor…

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TELEGRAMS. New Catholic Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Archbishop Moran laid the foundation stone of a new church at Redfern. He defrays half the cost of the building (£800) himself. The Archbishop…

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The Roman Catholic Diocesan Synod of Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The first Roman Catholic Diocesan Synod, preliminary to the first national council of the Catholic Church of Australasia, to be…

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Brown-street Congregational Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 3

IT will be remembered that the members of the above church decided some time ago to invite the Rev. Chas. Whyte, of Nairn, Scotland, to the above vacant pastorate…

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New Roman Catholic Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Archbishop Moran laid the foundation stone of a new church at Woolloomooloo yesterday, he paying half the cost…

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New R.C. Church in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 May 1885 · page 2

ST. COLUMIBKILLE Church, in Duke-street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, was commenced on Sunday afternoon with an impressive ceremonial, Archbishop Moran laying the first…

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Colonial News. Sydney Female Mission Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 8

WE have received a copy of the annual report of the Sydney Female Mission Home, which is doing a great deal of good in the metropolis. The…

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1885 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon Mr. and Miss Wales, evangelists from England, commenced a seven days' Gospel Temperance Mission in the Protestant Hall, Newcastle…

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