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Churches, 1847

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Church Intelligence. Diocese of Australia. Church of England Day Association

The Australian · Tuesday 10 August 1847 · page 3

WE regret it was not in our power in our last paper to give our reporters notes of the proceedings of the Quarterly Meeting of the Association, held on the 4th instant. The following…

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Church Intelligence. Public Meeting at Shanghae. (From the China Mail, May 6, 1847.)

The Australian · Thursday 12 August 1847 · page 3

At a public Meeting, held pursuant to notice, at H. B. M. Consulate (Shanghae) on the 6th April, to take into consideration the expediency of making provision without delay for the erection…

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Church Intelligence. Biucese of Australia. the Cemetery Bill

The Australian · Saturday 14 August 1847 · page 3

READ for the third and last time (two voices only in a House of 20 members being honorably dissentient) this miserable concoction,, is we presume, to be recognised as having now…

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New Zealand. First Consecration of a Catholic Bishop

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 18 August 1847 · page 3

The Right Rev. Dr. Collomb, who had recently spent a few weeks in Sydney, and who had been appointed by the Holy See to succeed the venerated Bishop Epalle, was consecrated in the neat wooden…

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Christ Church, St. Lawrence

The Australian · Friday 20 August 1847 · page 3

On Tuesday evening last, the 17th inst., a meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Lawrence, was held in the Schoolhouse, Christ Church, for the purpose of…

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Church Intelligence. Diacese of Australia. the Cemetery Bill

The Australian · Friday 20 August 1847 · page 3

AFTER so triumphant a division as that obtained on the third reading of the Bill, by its supporters in the Council, it is only only natural that some even of our own friends…

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An English Churchman on Ireland. Cause and Cure of Her Evils

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 28 August 1847 · page 4

The following letter, somewhat abridged, appears in the Sheffield Irish Gazette. It was written by on English Churchman 86 years of age:— It is now, I believe, more than thirty, years since…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Catholic Orphan School, Parramatta

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1847 · page 3

In the last number of the Weekly Dispatch was an article from the Parramatta correspondent of that paper, containing a violent attack upon the Matron of the above institution, and upon the general…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, August 31, 1847. Presbyterian Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1847 · page 4

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 25th August, 1847.—The description of the following grants of land, which have been appropriated to the purposes of the Presbyterian…

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Church Intelligence. Diacese of Australia. Australian Diocesan Committee

The Australian · Friday 3 September 1847 · page 3

THE Annual Reports of the Committee for the years 1845 and 1846, which have been just published, at the Committee's Depository, under St. James' Church afford us an opportunity of…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, August 31. Presbyterian Church Grants

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1847 · page 4

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 25th August, 1847,—The description of the following grants of land, which have been appropriate to the purposes of the Presbyterian Church, as heareunder mentioned,…

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The Catholic Institute.—national Education.—annual Meeting

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1847 · page 4

The annual meetintg of the Institute was held on u the 21st April, the chair being occupied by the Earl of Shrewsbury. A report from the committee was read, after which the Right Rev. Dr. Briggs, Bishop…

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Church Intelligence. Diocese of Australia. Annual Reports of the Diocesan Committee, for 1845-6. (Continued from our last.)

The Australian · Tuesday 7 September 1847 · page 3

REPORT FOR 1846.—The Report for this your opens with an acknowledgment of the honor conferred upon the Society by the cordiality with which His Excellency at the…

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Roman Catholic Schools. Feb. 18, 1847

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1847 · page 4

Sir—I have submitted to the Lord President of the Council your letter, dated the 12th instant, relating in general terms to the grounds which you seek aid from the Parliamentary grant towards the…

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The Catholic Institute—national Education—annual Meeting, 1847

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1847 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain was held on Wednesday, April 21, at the schools of St. Edward, in Great Windmill-street. The Earl of Shrewsbury occupied the chair, and,…

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The Roman Catholic Peasantry of Ireland

The Sentinel · Thursday 9 September 1847 · page 4

It is very rarely that an opportunity is afforded us of speaking in laudatory terms of the conduct of any of the Romish Priesthood of this country, When we have had occasion to…

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Roman Catholic Missions. (Communicated.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1847 · page 2

THE following is an exact relation of the events which have taken place at the Catholic Mission of New Caledonia, given by a traveller, who was on the spot at the time when they…

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Abandonment of the Mission at New Caledonia

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 14 September 1847 · page 2

THE French corvette Brillante has brought to Sydney four Catholic clergymen and two lay brethren from New Caledonia, who have been compelled by the ferocity of the…

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Abandonment of the Mission at New Caledonia

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 16 September 1847 · page 2

WE hasten to furnish our readers with an authentic and detailed account of the unhappy events which led to the abandonment of the Catholic Mission at New Caledonia,…

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Church Intelligence. the New Australian Bishoprics

The Australian · Friday 17 September 1847 · page 3

OUR readers, generally, may not be aware that the consecration of the Bishops-Designate of Melbourne, Adelaide, and Newcastle, would have taken place on Whit-Tuesday last, bad not…

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