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Churches, 1885

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Church of England

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening, the 9th inst., a meeting of male members of the Church of England was hold in the School Church, Nowra, for the purpose of electing a lay representative to the…

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New Raman Catholic Appointments and Regulations

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 2

ARCHBISHOP MORAN, on the eve of his departure for Europe, has issued an impertant circular letter to the clergy of the Arel.diocese of Sydney. The letter for…

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The Kangaroo's Mission. Part Ii

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 2

The voyage was long and the weather was stormy, He suffered a little from sea-sickness too, But he landed at last none the worse for his journey,…

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Sullivan Writes Autographs for the Church

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 8 July 1885 · page 2

John L. Sullivan, the fighter, cleared about 10,000 dols, by his exhibition of pugilism with Prof. Laflin, writes a New York correspondent of the Detroit Post. He spent…

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The New Catholic Church, Moruya

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 2

WE have had the pleasure of inspecting the plans prepared by Mr. Reginald Barlow, for the proposed new Catholic Church, to be built racing Queen and Page Street’s. The design is in early English of the…

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A Convert to the Roman Catholic Church

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1885 · page 2

The following paragraph, taken from the London Tiblet of June 6, has reference to a young nobleman who became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church during his…

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The A[?]mission

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

The special correspondent of the [?] telegraphed from San[?] [?] says:—Provision is being in [?] for moving in light…

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Church Society of the Diocese of Goulburn

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1885 · page 2

ON Sunday last the Rev. J. Studds, to whose charge hava been delegated the important duties of Organizing Secretary of the Church Society of the Goulburn…

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Church of England

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 3 September 1885 · page 2

THE customary "Harvest Festival" of the Church of England of Shoalhaven was held at Nowra School Church last Thursday. The day was in weather all that could be wished for;…

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The Church and the Stage

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 12 September 1885 · page 2

FROM time to time the well [?] question of the Church and the Stage crops up. It is almost a standard a press topic as the momentous question, Was the execution of…

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Church of England. Visit of the [?]Shop of Goulb[?]rn

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1885 · page 2

Dc. THOMAS, Anglican Bishop of Goulbarn, is new on an flie[?]l toar to this district, and [?] in St. John’s Church on Sunday last. At the…

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Anglican

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 2

BEFORE the departure to the southerly, centres of this part of the dioce [?], the ladies of St. John's, Bega, decided to invite his Lordship to a tea-meeting in the…

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Church of England. Tea and Public Meeting

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 2

THE tea meeting at tho Lyceum, on Wednesday, was in every way successful. The room was prettily decorated, and on the tables there was a profusion of…

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Church of England. Tea and Public Meeting

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 September 1885 · page 2

THE [?] meeting at the Lyee[?] on Wednesday, was in every way successful room was prettily de[?] mid on tables there is a profusion of [?]…

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Bertie's Mission

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 1 October 1885 · page 1

ALL day the burning sun had scorched the dry earth. Along country roads the dust lay, fine and light as powder; the grass by the wayside was browned; the fields of yellow…

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Church of England. Shoalhaven Auxiliary of the Church Society

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 1 October 1885 · page 2

A MEETING in connection with the above Society was held in the School Church, Nowra, on Tuesday evening, 22nd ultimo, there being only some 13 or 14 persons present. But ne doubt…

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Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, the New Secretary of State for India

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 1

Third son of the late Duke of Marlborough, was born in 1849. His lordship has sat for Woodstock since 1874. He has been most active in his efforts to weaken the Liberal…

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A Russian Church

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 8 October 1885 · page 4

THE consecration of the Church of St. Isaac at St. Petersburg took place on the 10th of June, 1858. The pageants and processions wore grand; and good seats, at…

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Church Manners (To the Editor of the [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 October 1885 · page 2

SIR, — ln glancing over the report of a meeting held in the L[?]n in connection with the Bishop's visit to the district. I notice that the Rev. Mr. L[?]…

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Robbery From a Church

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 5 November 1885 · page 2

During the night five contribution-boxes in Bath Abbey church were broken open, and a quarter's freewill offering of the congregation stolen. It is supposed that the thief sectored…

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