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Churches, 1843

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St. Patrick's Society, Catholic Institute, and Society for the Propogation of the Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 3 January 1843 · page 3

On Sunday evening, the usual periodical meeting of the above societies was held at the School-room in Castlereagh-street; the Very Reverend the Vicar General in the chair…

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The Catholic Church in Russia

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 7 January 1843 · page 4

The following is the allocution of his Holiness Pope Gregory XVI. to the Sacred College, in the Secret Consistory of July 22nd, 1842, on the persecutions of the Catholic church in Russia:—…

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The German Mission and the Alleged Murder of the Aborigines

The Colonial Observer · Saturday 14 January 1843 · page 751

A correspondent of one of our contemporaries, signing himself "A Squatter," has given a very improbable version of the late alleged murder of a number of the…

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Mr. James Macarthur and the Church Act

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1843 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—All the liberal electors of Windsor would have been gulled by Mr. James Macarthur's export of his principles of religious liberty, had not our Rev. Pastor, who clearly saw that he was…

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The Chronicle's Falsehoods--wentworth and the Church Act. to the Editor of the Observer

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 25 January 1843 · page 5

SIR--The aspersions upon my character in the Australasian Chronicle have been so frequent and violent of late, that I have not deemed it necessary to reply to them; feeling satisfied that their…

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Pews in Churches. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1843 · page 4

IN the last number of the British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review is an article of great ability, ostensibly upon the subject of pews ia churches, and exposing…

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Church Government in New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1843 · page 2

THE Australasian Chronicle accuses the Acting Governor of New Zealand of acting "illiberally and illegally," because, when an application was made by the Rev. J…

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St. Patrick's Society, Catholic Institute, and Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 7 February 1843 · page 2

The usual periodical meeting of the above societies to held at the Catholic school room, Castlereagh-street, the Very Reverend the Vicar General in the chair…

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Church Matters in New Zealand

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 7 February 1843 · page 2

THE Herald has made an attempt to vindicate the gentleman administering the government at New Zealand from our late censures. It is but a lame effort. Here it is:—…

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Beauties of the "Church."

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 9 February 1843 · page 4

We have before us two pithy paragraphs taken from the London papers, which convey within their brief compass a history of the "Church" as complete as if the information given had been spread…

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Singular Evidence of the Alleged Decline of the Presbyterian Voluntary Church Cause

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 22 February 1843 · page 833

Our readers will perceive from an advertisement in this day's paper that a new Presbyterian Church, unsupported by the State, is to be opened for divine service at…

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The Village Church

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 22 February 1843 · page 837

God's lowly temple ! place of many prayers ! Gray is thy roof, and crumbling are thy wall: And over old green graves thy shadow falls, To bless the spot where end all human cares!…

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The New Catholic Bishop for Van Diemen's Land

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 28 February 1843 · page 2

THE following extract from the Tablet of October 22, removes the doubts that have been afloat for some time regarding the individual who was destined to fill the new Catholic See of Hobart Town:—…

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ENGLISH [?] Affairs of the Church of Scotland. (From the Glasgow Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1843 · page 4

THE "affairs of the Church" are really in a queer condition at present. The various provincial Synods, which have recently been holding their half-yearly…

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Church Grant

The Colonial Observer · Saturday 4 March 1843 · page 861

The following town allotments, which have been from time to time appropriated to the purposes of the Presbyterian Church, published for general information, being in…

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Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1843 · page 2

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, March 1,1813. The following descriptions of Grants of Land and Town Allotments, which have at various periods been appropriated to the…

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Government [?] Friday, March 3, 1813. Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1843 · page 2

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney 1st March, 1843. The following descriptions of Town Allotments, which have been from time to time appropriated to the purposes of the…

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St. Patrick's Society, Catholic Institute, and Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 7 March 1843 · page 2

The usual periodical meeting of the above societies held at the Catholic schoolroom, in Castlereagh-street, on Sunday evening last, and was very numerously and respectably attended, upwards of…

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Pews in Church

The Australian · Wednesday 8 March 1843 · page 4

The Times has drawn attention to some excellent remarks in the British Critic on the subject of pews. The Reviewer states—…

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Original Correspondence. the Church of Scotland. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—I cannot but regret, and I re gret it the more, from the respectability of your paper, and the influence which it deservedly possesses, that your extracts in…

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