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Sydney · Churches

Churches, 1868

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Opening of the New Catholic Church, Cooks River

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

For a considerable time the Catholics in the neighbourhood of Cooks River, have been considerably inconvenienced by the smallness of the church is which they assemble to hear Mass. Beyond the…

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Burning of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Chables Borromeo, in Brooklyn, N.y

Empire · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo, on ridney place, near Livingaton, Brooklyn, wds destroyed on Sunday morning. The origin of the fire was a defect in one of the heaters in the…

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Catholic Association

Empire · Friday 8 May 1868 · page 2

A meeting of this association was held last evening. Present: The Very Rev. the Vicar-General, the Rev. Fathers O Farrell, Garavel, Newman, Sheridan, Luckie; Messrs. M'Mahon, Curtis, Smith,…

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Foreign Intelligence. Great Britain. Earl of Denbigh on Catholic Union

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 4

The inaugural meeting of the Birmingham Catholic Union was held bit week at the Curzon-half, Birmingham. The Earl of Denbigh presided…

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Saint John's Church, Kent-street

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 2

On Wednesday morning last the foundation stone of a new church and school in Kent-street south was laid by his Grace the Archbishop in the presence of a large number of Catholic as several of the clergy…

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Catholic Association. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 11 May 1868 · page 3

Sir,—In to-day's issue of your paper there appears a report of last evening's meeting of the above association, in which your reporter makes such a jumble of the few observations with which I prefaced certain…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before Mr. H. H. Voss, W.P.M., and Mr. W. Church)

Empire · Monday 11 May 1868 · page 3

Catherine M Phail was brought before the Bench under the following circumstances: Constable Sweeney peposed that about half-past 7 o'clock on the previous evening[?] the prisoner came to the police…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. English News to April 9. the Queen Again in Public. Great Parliamentary Agitation on Irish Church Affairs. Fenianism Subsiding in England. Assassination of D'arcy McGEE in Canada. Pacific Aspect of the Alabama Question. Advance in the Price of Wool. Safety of Dr. Livingstone. Impending Battle in Abyssinia. News of Prince Alfred Gone on Via Gaile

Empire · Thursday 14 May 1868 · page 3

[The following telegram reached our office yesterday morning at half-past 5 o'clock—too late for publication in that day's paper. The wires were occupied by the long message of our daily contemporary until most of…

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Water Police Court. Thursday. Before the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. W. Church, and Mr. M. Metcalfo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 May 1868 · page 5

Thomas Cuddy, found drunk, in George-street, was fined 5s., in default of payment to be imprisoned two days. Peterson v. Jenkins was a complaint that defendant, who is master of the schooner Lurline, refused to pay wages to…

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Water Police Court.—thursday. (Before the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Church and Metcalf.)

Empire · Friday 15 May 1868 · page 3

Captain Jenkins, of the Lurline, was sued by Peter Beavy and Peterson for wages due, and was ordered to pay £8 12s. 8d. wages, and 5s. 10d. costs, to the former, and £7 5s. 10d. wages, and 5s. 10d. costs, to,…

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Queanbeyan Catholic Education Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 10

On Sunday last, after Mass had been celebrated by the Her. P. White, a meeting was held for the purpose of forming a branch society in connection with the Catholic Association for the…

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Irish Intelligence. Catholic Education—meeting at Inchicore, Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 5

A meeting was held on Sunday in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Inchicore, for the purpose of co-operating with the Rev. Oblate Fathers in building and establishing…

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The Bishopric of Natal—the Church Law, &c

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 12

The Bishop of Capetown and his friends have at last found a champion who will consent to go out and confront the Bishep of Natal in the midst of his intelligent Zulus. This is a subject…

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Spirit of the Press. the Doom of the Church Establishment

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 12

The Protestant meeting has separated; those who composed it have slunk away to their homes; the speeches resolutions of the orators have been read, digested and commented upon, and what is…

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Respectability in Church

Empire · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 8

A correspondent furnishes this amusing sketch of a scene in church—perhaps a little highly colored, but, we are assured, substantially true:— "A Sunday or two ago, a lady of [?]certain age and weight entered…

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The Church of St. Chirkos and Abyssinian Customs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1868 · page 9

FROM a letter from Captain Speedy, to a gentleman in Sydney we take the following extracts:— "The weather has been charming, and reminds us much of home. Yesterday we went to visit the Church of Saint…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1868 · page 7

THE Bishop of Sydney and the Bishop of Goulburn have been on a visitation tour through their respective dioceses. The Synod of the diocese of Newcastle began its session on the 12th instant…

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Religious. Church of England

Empire · Wednesday 20 May 1868 · page 2

The synod of the diocase of Brisbane, Queensland, not at the begining of this month. Their sittings terminated on the 8th. The chief object was to adopt a constitution for the Church of England in…

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The Irish Church. (From the Telegraph, March 17.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1868 · page 3

PROLONGED from speaker to speaker through a chain of deliverances, now bright with the gold of thought, now dull as lead, now b[?]ss-like with the audacity of ignorance and selfishness, the Irish debate sprang into life again last…

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Mr. Gladstone on the Irish Church and the State of Ireland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1868 · page 6

ON Tuesday, the 10th of March, Mr. Maguire brought on his motion in the House of Commons, for the taking into immediate consideration the condition and circumstance of Ireland. The debate lasted over…

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