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Churches, 1868

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1868 · page 7

A SOCIETY named the Clarence River Association has been formed in the diocese of Grafton and Armidale. It has been determined that tenders shall be invited for clearing the site for the Grafton Minster, and strenuous…

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Water Police Court. Thursday. Before the Wafer Police Magistrate, and Mr. W. Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 June 1868 · page 2

George Grey and Gordon Grant, for drunkenness in the streets, were fined 5s. each, with the alternative of two days' imprisonment. Ah Sue was sent to gaol for two months, as an idle and disorderly character. Edward…

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

Empire · Friday 19 June 1868 · page 3

Ah Sue, a Chinaman, on the application or constable Eaton, was sent to gaol, with hard labour, for two months. He was stated to have no fixed place of abode, nor any visible means of subsistence…

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Sydney City Mission

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 5

THE sixth annual meeting of the Sydney City Mission Society was held in the Temperance Hall, on Monday. In the absence of Mr. Henry Prince, the chair was occupied by Mr. J. H. Goodlet. There was a numerous attendance…

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The Church Question

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 13

The late debate on Mr. Gladstone's motion was expected to be extraordinarily bitter, and much, was said beforehand of the personal conflicts and the excited scenes to which it was…

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A Clerical Denunciation of the Irish Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 11

At a meeting in Wigan on Tuesday night the Rev. Mr. Hains. incumbent of St. George's Church, in that town, appeared in support of resolutions favouring the disendowment of the…

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The Press on the Irish Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 6

THE Church of England is silent on the pronounced doom and impending fate of the so-called sister Establishment. The select assemblage at St. James's Hell represented nothing but itself, and the names of…

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The Irish Church Debate

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 6

THE great debate on Mr. Gladstone's motion for a committee to consider the Acts relating to the Established Church in Ireland, commenced on the 30th March…

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The Irish Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 June 1868 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT requests the insertion of the following, from Macaulay's Speeches, published in the Edinburgh Review, October, 1854. "Our last illustrations shall be from the speech on…

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The Meeting at St. James's Hall in Favour of the Irish Church. (Times, April 18.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 June 1868 · page 2

ON two successive nights has St. James's Hall been devoted to meetings on the subject of the Irish Church, the promoters of its disestablishment and disendowment…

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Catholic Directory. JUNE

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 8

Saturday, 27.—Vigil. Fast. St. William, A.D, double. Vacipseq compraec Dometoct. [?] Sunday, 28.—Fourth after Pentecost. St. Leo [?] II., P. C, doul'le. V seq sine com…

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Catholic School, Pitt-street South

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 10

On Thursday last, the mid-winter examination of the above school took place, in presence of his Grace the Archbishop, the Very Rev. the Vicar-General, the Rev. Fathers Lucitie, M'Carthy…

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The Catholic Association. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 7

SIR,—If the correspondent in your issue of Saturday last, and who takes apparently a praiseworthy interest in the progress of the abovenamed association, had taken the trouble to…

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Foreign Intelligence. Great Britain. Defenders of the Irish Church at Blackburn. Disgraceful Proceedings

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 4

On Thursday evening one of the largest , and most stormy meetings that have ever taken place in the town of Blackburn was held, in the Exchange Rooms. Upwards of…

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The Hush Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 11

A CORRESPONDENT requests the insertion of the following from Macaulay's published in the Hin burgh Review, October, 1854. "Our last illustrations shall be from the speech on…

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Water Police Court. Saturday. Before Mr. W. Day and Mr. W. Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 June 1868 · page 2

George Bacon, boatman, for assaulting Thomas Thompson, also a boatman, at the Circular Quay, was fined 10s. with costs, and he was also fined 1s., with costs, for making use of abusive language towards the same complainant…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before Messrs. Day and Church.)

Empire · Monday 29 June 1868 · page 2

Thomas Thompson summoned George Bawn, first for assaulting him; secondly, for using abusive words towards him. The parties are rival boatmen, and it would appear that the defendant viewed certain points…

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Arrival of the Panama Mail Buropean News to May 12, the Impeachment of President Johnson. Death of Lord Brougham. Riots in England. the Clerkenwell Outrage. the Irish Church Resolution. Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh. Departure of English Troops From Abyssinia. Earthquake and Tidal Wave at the Sandwich Islands

Empire · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 3

The P., N.Z., and A.R.M. Mail Company's steamship Rakaia arrived in Sydney Harbour, punctually to her contract time, yesterday, and brings news from London to May 12th, and…

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Water Police Court. Wednesday. Before the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. W. Day, Mr. J. Evans, and Mr. W. Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 3

John Roberts, fond drunk in Adolphus-street, was fined 20s., or to be imprisoned seven days. Peter Brown was fined 20s., with cots, for using obscene language within hearing of persons [?] a public place; and Horita Marshall,…

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New Baptist Church, Harris-street

Empire · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 3

The foundation stone of a new, Baptist Church was laid yesterday afternoon, at Harris-street, Ultimo, by Mr. Thomas Jones, A number of the congregation now assembling in the Masonic Hall, under the…

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