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Churches, 1875

20 stories in Riverina's papers

Adelong Local News. Church Festival

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1875 · page 2

THE festival in connection with the Anglican Church, which, as our readers are doubtless aware, had been from unavoidable causes previously postponed, came off on Monday last, and was an unqualified success in…

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The Old Church at Newmarket the Graves of the Jockevs. (From the Daily News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 January 1875 · page 4

There is hardly a surname here that is not familiar to the student of turf history. In the Turf-terrace corner is the family grave of the Weatherby's—a name familiar as…

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Churchyards and Epitaphs

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 4

“THE luxury of woe” has lost much of its spiritual significance, and is become grossly materialised. Nowadays it has a price in the market. We measure our…

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Our Church. Out of the Hurly Burly

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1875 · page 4

OLD COLLAMER, by the way, is singularly unfortunate in his experience in the sanctuary. He is extremely deaf, and a few Sundays ago he made a fearful blunder during…

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The Weakness of the Broad Church

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 4

IF comprehensiveness were, as we are so often assured on. high authority, a legitimate characteristic and fundamental principle of the Establishment, the…

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Terrible Accident in a Church

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred in St. Andrew’s Church, New York, on the 25th of February. The church stands on the north side of Duane-street, near…

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Terrible Accident in a Church

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1875 · page 5

A TERRIBLE accident occurred in St. Andrew’s Church, New York, on 25th February. The New York Tribune gives the following particulars:—…

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Churches Built by Fancy Work

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 4

IN an essay on Fancy Work by 'M. or N.,' which appears in the 'Australasian,' the following remarks occur:—But, besides gratifying their own taste for the beautiful, and…

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Original Correspondence. St. John's Church and Mr. Nixon. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1875 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of Saturday last there is a paragraph reporting a meeting of the Church Committee under the chairmanship of the Ven. Archdeacon Pownall. By this I…

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Dr. Badham’s Mission

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 2

THE learned Professor promises us a visit some day, and hopes, by his eloquent tongue, to induce some of our wealthy men to aid him in the mission in which he is so deeply…

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Burning of a Church and Great Loss of Life

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 4

A terrible disaster has visited Holyoke U.S., in the burning of the French Catholic Church, which was so fatally swift that sixty-six men, women, and children were either…

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Original Correspondence. St. John's Church. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2

SIR,—As a member of St. John's Church congregation I agree with you in your remarks about Archdeacon Pownall's letter, and think that it ought to be published. If it is…

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Cruise of the Mission Ship Ellengowan

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 6

FROM the Brisbane Courier’s Somerset correspondent we (Echo) take the following condensed narrative :— I send a rough sketch of the mission…

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A Church in New York

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

THE rise in value of late years which has taken place in house property in Now York is very great, but the value of pew property seems to be increasing at an even more…

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What They Do at Church. (Danbury News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1875 · page 4

It was after the evening service. Mr. Coonton and the three Misses Coonton had arrived home. They sat listlessly around the room with their…

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Adelong Local News. Church of England Tea Meeting

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1875 · page 2

THIS well attended gathering came off very successfully in Hodgson's Assembly hall, on the evening of Wednesday, the 6th inst. The tables were tastefully decorated with flowers…

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New Wesleyan Church, Brucedale, Junee Road. (Communicated.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 2

The interesting ceremony of laying the first stone of the proposed new church, at Brucedale, took place on Tuesday last), in the, presence of about 250 persons. It will,…

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Albury. [From Our Own Correspondent.] the Catholic Jubilee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 24 November 1875 · page 3

As intimated in a lnte communication, the Jubilee Devotions were formally opened on Sunday, 21st, by the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan, Bishop of Goulburn, at the evening service of…

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What They Do at Church

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 4

It was after the evening service. Mrs Coonton and the three Misses Coonton had arrived home. They sat listlessly around the room with their things on. Mr Coonton was lying was…

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Albury. [From a Correspondent.] the Catholic Schools Examinations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1875 · page 2

To those connected and concerned with the training of the youthful generation, the Christmas examinations, with distribution of prizes, are matters of 110 small interest or…

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