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Churches, 1860

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The Annual Meeting of the Church Society of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1860 · page 4

THE annual meeting of this society was held last evening, at the Infant Schoolroom, Castlereagh-street. Prayer having been offered up by the Very Rev. Dean Cowper, that gentleman took the chair…

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Church Society.—annual Meeting

Empire · Tuesday 29 May 1860 · page 4

THE annaal meeting of the Church Society was hold last evening at the School-room, C[?]-street. About 70 persons were present. his Excellency the Governor-General was on the platform, [?] 6 or 10…

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Catholic Ireland—pius Ix

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 30 May 1860 · page 3

The Cork Examiner publishes the following extract from a letter just received from a high ecclesiastical dignitary in Rome:— Rome, Feb. 1, 1860.—On this morning I had the…

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Parliamentary Paper. Church of England Synods Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1860 · page 8

THE select committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 13th October, 1859, to consider and report upon the Church of England Synods Bill, having examined into the important matters referred…

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Church of England Teachers Association

Empire · Monday 4 June 1860 · page 5

THE Monthly Meeting of the Church of England Teachers' Association was held at St. James' Schoolroom, on Saturday afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock. Several members were absent in consequence of the…

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Catholic Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 June 1860 · page 4

BLESSING OF THE GREAT ANGELUS BELL, OF KILFINANE.—Though rapid has been the advancement of Catholicity in this country within the past years, few localities have experienced the…

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Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan

Empire · Monday 11 June 1860 · page 2

Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59. With Illustrations from Original Drawings and Photographs. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT,…

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St. Andrews' Churchwardens. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1860 · page 5

SIR,— Blue Book in your issue of yesterday, seeks to impose a false impression;— the churchwardens of St. Andrew's like all other churchwardens, are elected annually, on;Easter Tuesday, by the seat-holders and…

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CHURCHWARDENS (?) of St. Andrew's. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1860 · page 10

SIR—Onesigning himself "Churchwarden," replying to my former letter, states that "the churchwardens of St. Andrew's, like all others, are elected annually on Easter Tuesday, by the seatholdera and…

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The Church of England Synod Bill. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 21 June 1860 · page 2

SIR,—The public generally, and the Anglican communion especially, are under no mean obligation to you for the able and earnest, yet temperate, articles on the above named Bill, which appeared in some of your last…

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Primitive Methodist Tea Meeting

Empire · Tuesday 26 June 1860 · page 5

A PUBLIC tea meeting was held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel. Kent-street, yesterday evening, to welcome the Rev. S. R. Hartley, of Bristol, the Rev. J. Addison, of Horncastle, and the Rev. J. Foggen. of Brompton—…

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Church of England Synod Bill. (Per favour of the Empire.)

Empire · Tuesday 26 June 1860 · page 3

FELLOW CHURCHMEN, [?]The Church of England Synod Bill is to be read a second time in the Legislate Council, on Wednesday next, and although it is highly improbable such a Bill will pass through the Legislative…

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The Church Act

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 June 1860 · page 3

Since the publication in our columns of Archdeacon M'Encroe's " Lecture" on this Act, some persons have been enquiring for further particulars on this important subject; hence we consider it…

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Wreck of the Melanesian Mission Schooner Southern Cross. (From the New Zealander, June 22.)

Empire · Friday 6 July 1860 · page 5

THE Rev. B. Y. Ashwell, whose name is so well known in connexion with the mission on the Waikato, and Mr. Kerr (formerly sailing master of her Majesty's brigantine, Pandora) called at our office last night, and left…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

Empire · Tuesday 10 July 1860 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting was held last evening (Monday, 9th July), at the Wesleyan Church, Surry Bills, for the objects of the above society. After the singing of a hymn, prayer was offered by Rev. W.S. MAYNE, of Armidale…

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St. Benedicts Church

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 11 July 1860 · page 2

We congratulate tho people of St. Benedict's on their Catholic spirit, so nobly manifested on Sunday last. At three o'clock p m., tho sweettoned peal of bells in the tower of the church…

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Addition to St. Barnabas' Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 July 1860 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting was held last night in St. Barnabas Church, Parramatta-street, to devise means for raising funds to add a gallery to that place of worship. There was a large attendance. At 8 p.m. the chair…

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Church of St. Barnabas, Parra. Matta Street

Empire · Wednesday 11 July 1860 · page 8

A MEETING of the parishioner of the Church of St. Barnebas was held yesterday evening in the church, Pa[?]mstts-street. The object of the meeting was to adopt[?] measures for the [?]rection of a gallery in that place o[?]…

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Annual Meeting of the Congregation of the Scoots Church, Sydney

Empire · Thursday 12 July 1860 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the congregation of the Scots Church, to receive the Report of the outgoing committee, appointed at the last annual meeting to manage the temporelities of the Church, and [?]o elect another…

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Converts to the Roman C[?]tholic Church to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 13 July 1860 · page 3

SIR.— I received the [?]mpanying list cf converts to Cath [?]m by the last mail from a highly respectable quarter, and which may prove interesting to many of your Protrstant and Catholic readers. There are two…

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