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Churches, 1874

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Malgoa School and Aboriginal Mission

Evening News · Friday 2 January 1874 · page 4

MR. DANIEL MATTHEWS has been for some time engaged in prosecuting a plan for ameliorating the condition of the blacks on the Murray River, and his exertions have been crowned with a modest modicum…

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Carcoar Catholic School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 6

THE distribution of prizes to the children attending this school took place in the convent building on Friday, the 19th instant. A number of ladies and gentlemen were present, who…

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Mudgee Roman Catholic School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 6

ON Thursday, December 18th, an examination of the pupils attending the Roman Catholic Denominational School in Mudgee took place in the schoolroom, preparatory to breaking up for…

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The Catholic Bishops on Education

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 12

IN reference to the resolutions of the Irish bishops, the Dublin Evening Post writes:— The proceedings are, assuredly, of the most important character, political no less…

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Italy. Audience Given to the Catholic Associations

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 4

On the 19th September, the Vigil of the Third Anniversary of the Captivity of Pope Pius IX. in the Vatican, the Holy Father received in the Consistory Hall the Directing…

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Great Men in the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 11

"By the Government organs in Rome," says the well-known writer "Connellan," "the religious are classed as ignorant, as obscurantists, as oppressors of learning, as…

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A "Speaking Church."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 9

THE coming of Archbishop Vatighan, in our opinion, opens up a new view of things to those outside the pale of Catholic unity; and is thus a fresh era in the…

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Congregational Church at Bathurst. (From the Bathurst Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1874 · page 5

THE ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new Congregational Church took place on last New Year's Day, and was witnessed by a large number of persons. Several clergymen of the church were present, and after singing a…

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Cobb's Coaches for North Queensland the Clunes Mining Dispute. the Pera Mail Steamer. the Victorian Church Assembly. Determined Suicide at Gulgong. Capture of the Wheeo Bushranger. Revenue of Queensland. the Torres Straits Service. Serious Accident at Gulgong. the All-england Cricketers v. the Stawell Twenty-two. Committal of a Medical Man for Perjury. the Melbourne Grain and Import Markets. the New Ministry of Queensland. Latest Commercial and Mining, &c., &c., &c. GOULBURN. Thursday, 3.11 p.m

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1874 · page 2

The bushranger who stuck up and wounded Mr. Slcombe has been captured, armed, and wearing Mr. Slocombe's hat and watch. He gives his name as John Hawthorne, aged 29, and confesses, but…

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Xiii. the Same Correspondent on Church and State in Germany. Berlin, October 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1874 · page 3

The Paris Univers is porfectly right in stating that the German Emperor's reply to the Pope has elicited a retort. If this second letter of his Holiness has not been published as well as the first, this, I believe, is owing to a feeling of…

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Roman Catholic Orphan Schools, Paramatta

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 10

THE children of the above schools had their annual treat on Thursday last at Chowder Bay. They were conveyed to the grounds by one of the Parramatta steamers. The day was rather…

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Distribution of Prizes at the Catholic Denominational School. Hill End

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 4

ACCORDING to announcement (says a Hill End paper) the Christmas examination and distribution of prizes took place on Friday, the 19th ultimo. There were present about 100 children…

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New Zealand. Catholic Schools, Auckland. Ss. Peter and Patrick's Select School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 4

THE annual examinations of St. Peter's and St. Patrick's Select School took place on Wednesday, December, 17th. His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Croke presided. There were…

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Congregational Church at Bathurst

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 70

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new Congregational Church took place on last New Year's Day, and was witnessed by a large number of persons. Several clergymen, of the church were present, and after singing a…

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The Manifesto of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops on Education. (From the Times.) Dublin, October 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 6

THE Roman Catholic hierarchy have been sitting in conference in the Presbytery of the Cathedral, Marlborough-street. Their proceedings were private, but it has been understood that the education question…

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The Albury Race Meeting. the Handball Matches—sydney V Melbourne. the Border Trade. Great Storm and Floods in South Australia. Exodus to the Endeavour. Queensland Railways. Melbourne Wool Sales. Latest From Mauritius. Town Hall and Sale Yards at Bathurst. New Catholic Church at Tamworth. the Buckley Estate.—death of a Claimant. Latest Commercial. &c., &c, &c. BRISBANE. Monday, 7.25 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 2

The Winifred, from London, was sighted off Cape Moreton, yesterday. She skipped her pilot, and put off to sea again, on account of bad weather…

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The Irish Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 6

THE Archbishop of Dublin held a visitation of the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough on October 22, 1873, in St. Patrick's Cathedra. In the course of his charge he referred to the very…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1874 · page 6

December 16.—A meeting was hold at Cowra, at which it was resolved to commence the erection of a new church. 20.—The foundation-stone of a schoolroom at Balmain, to be temporarily used as a church, was laid by the…

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Catholic Loyalty

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 9

OUR high-principled and charitable contemporary, the Sydney Morning Herald, lately favoured us by devoting nearly a quarter of its valuable space to extracts…

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Consecration of the Foundation Stone of the Catholic Church, Molong

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 5

His Lordship) the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, the Right Rev. Dr. Quinn, accompanied by the Rev. T. J. Walsh and Father M Girr, of Bathurst, left Orange on Saturday…

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