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Churches, 1879

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Church and the Stage

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 3

THE stage was displayed upon the table at the recent Church Congress in the awesome presence of the three thousand ecclesiastics as an abandoned, though in…

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True Story of Sir Lewis Pelly's Mission. (From the Globe, November 6.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1879 · page 1

The following information, which has reached as from a source entitled to every confidence, has a very important bearing at the moment, on account of…

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Why People Do Not Go to Church

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 February 1879 · page 6

PERHAPS it may be profitable to consider why a large percentage of otherwise good and respectable persons systematically absent themselves from public…

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Christ Church, Cootamundra

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 7

A MEETING of the congregation of this Church, convened by placard, was held in the school-room on Friday evening last. There were about thirty members of the…

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Woman's Power and Mission. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 3

WHAT is to be the position of woman in Australia? Somebody has said that those who wish to know what is the political and moral condition of a…

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Catholic School Picnic

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 3

The pupils attending the Covert School (girls) and St. Michael's School (boys) were treated to a picnic yesterday by the Rev. Birmingham, whose generosity on this…

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St. Andrew's Presbyterian Tea Meeting and Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1879 · page 4

ACCORDING to announcement the above tea meeting and concert was held in the Masonic Hall, on Thursday evening. At 6 o'clock the people begun to assemble, and at…

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Parish Roads

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 5

Notice is given in the Gazette that, in conformity with the provisions of the Act 4th William IV., No. 11, no objection having been made to the proposed opening of the…

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In Memoriam. the Church Bells: Or. My Mother

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

AH me! ye sacred bells, what sermons do ye ring; What mem'ries of the past your chimings ever bring, Reminding of our youth, when we were blithe and gay, And 'tending 'neath thy towers to worship and to…

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Tenterden Church Steeple

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 7

TENTERDEN, to which remarkably clean and handsome town the Weald extends, is known to thousands who never trod its High-street, simply by the fame with…

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Catholic Education Defence Union

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 July 1879 · page 6

A MONSTER meeting of the Catholics of East and West Melbourne and Carlton was held at St. Francis Church on Monday evening, for the purpose of…

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Roman Catholic Law of Burial

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 July 1879 · page 3
Also in Cootamundra Herald

THE Catholic Church at Breadalbane, which was commenced some years ago, is now finished, and was formally opened and blessed on Sunday last by…

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Roman Catholic Pastoral Letter

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 2

THE following is the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop and Bishops exercising jurisdiction in New South Wales:—"To our dearly beloved brethren and…

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Roman Catholic Children in Public Schools. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 1

Before the promulgation of the Roman Catholic Archbishop's Pastoral on the relation of his Church to the Public schools, clerical influences had been…

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Roman Catholic Pastoral

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 2

THE following Pastoral letter has been addressed to the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Sydney:—…

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New Anglican Church at Coolac

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1879 · page 2

On Tuesday last the foundation stone of a new Church of England Church at Coolae was laid in the presence of a large assemblage by Mrs. Walter Hoare. The proceedings began by the…

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Church of England Synod at Goulburn

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 September 1879 · page 3

AT the opening of the. Synod now being held in Goulburn the Eight Rev. the Lord Bishop of Goulburn (president) gave the following deliverance on the education question and…

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The Catholic Bazaar

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1879 · page 2

A BAZAAR in aid of the Roman Catholic, Church and Convent was held in a temporary building crected for the occasion on the vacant ground adjoining the Post-office The…

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Bishop Colenso and the Church of England. (Cape Argus, October 14.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1879 · page 1

The Rev. Mr. Colley, who has just assumed the duties of Dean of Maritzburg, made the following statement at the conclusion of his first sermon in…

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