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Churches, 1876

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St. James's Church, Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 20

THE accompanying view will be familiar to a large number of our readers. St. James's Church is one of the oldest sacred edifices in Australia. It is situated at the top of King-street, near Hyde Park Barracks,…

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Mr. Forster's Mission to England

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 81

AFTER a delay of perhaps a couple of months Mr. ROBERTSON has laid before the House the return (in part) to Mr. PARKES's motion for copies of correspondence, &c, relating to Mr. FORSTER'S…

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Round the World. [By an Australian.] the Churches and Palaces of Milan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 19

NOTWITHSTANDING that the Duomo is the facile princeps of ecclesiastical edifices in Milan, and perhaps in Europe, there are numerous other churches possessing much interest for the sight-seer. The church of St…

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Confiscating Catholic Colleges

Evening News · Thursday 20 July 1876 · page 3

London, June 16th.-A dispatch from Rome to the News announces that, in accordance with the law confiscating conventual Establishments the property of the English, Irish and Scotch Catholic…

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Confiscating Catholic Colleges

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 July 1876 · page 33

London, June 16th.—A dispatch from Rome to the News announces that, in accordance with the law confiscating conventual establishments, the property of the English, Irish and Scotch Catholic…

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Catholic Directory. [?] JULY

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 July 1876 · page 12

Tuesday, the Feast of St. James the Apostle, is a day of Devotion. Sunday, 23.—7th Sunday after Pentecost. St. Apollinaria, BM dup. V seq com…

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The Rev. J. Smith's Plea for the Independence of Native Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 22 July 1876 · page 2

The Rev. J. Smith, of Delhi, an able and experienced Indian Missionary, read, ait the recent Baptist Conference, an admirable paper, in which he protests against perpetuating the…

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In Memoriam. the Late Rev. H. Nis[?], Ll.d., of the Samoan Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 July 1876 · page 3

THE London Missionary Society has lost a valuable and faithful labourer in the recent death of the Rev. Dr. Nisbet. He was connected with the society for upwards of thirty-six years. In early life he was engaged in…

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Ireland. Great Catholic Meeting in Armagh

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 4

On the l6th of May, a meeting of the Catholics of Armagh was held in the Catholic Reading Room for the purpose of establishing for the city and county of Armagh a…

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Tales. Edina. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xxxiii.—under the Church Walls

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 1

"No, I cannot buy the bonnet unless you will make the alteration at once. Now: so that I may take it home with me in the carriage. The speaker was Mrs. Townley. Daisy was…

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The Livingstonian Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1876 · page 3

THE flowing letter from Mr. E. D. Young, R.N., to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of S otland, has been just received by Dr. Murray Mitchell:—…

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Church and State

Sydney Punch · Friday 4 August 1876 · page 2

If Spain would only repudiate Church Bonds as freely as she did State Bonds, she would be free altogether. The hairdressers' expletive--Dash my wig!…

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Alleged Libel on the Roman Catholic Clergy of Dunedin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 18

THE Resident Magistrate's Court-house was crowded on Tuesday afternoon on the occasion of hearing the information which had been laid by Dr. Moran, Roman Catholic Bishop of the…

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Jubilee at St. Bridget's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 17

THE Jubilee in St. Bridget's Church, Kent-street North, Sydney, commenced on Sunday fortnight and ended on Sunday week, and the Forty Hours' Devotion commenced in the same…

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Correspondence. the Christ Church Vatican Afflicted with Orange-phobia. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 2

SIRS,--It has often been the painful duty of Evangelical churchmen to condemn peculiar proceedings at Christ Church. To chronicle regularly, the procedure of those who assume to…

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Priests and the Catholic Press

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 August 1876 · page 5

There is a growing sensitiveness and irritation observeable in the spiritual guides of the Roman Catholic Church in Queensland breaking out in invective against a free Press. In the end of…

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Prussia and Italy—mission of Von Moltke

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 August 1876 · page 7

The Monde gives currency to a curious story regarding the mission of Von Moltke to Rome. It is set forth that the German commander went thither to back up a…

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Home and Foreign. England. the English Catholic Movement

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 August 1876 · page 5

On Friday the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and the English Hierarchy, as Senate of University College, made their annual visitation at the college at Kensington…

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New Zealand. Alleged Libel on the Catholic Clergy of Dunedin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 August 1876 · page 8

We gave last week a report of the part hearing of the case before the magistrate, and we now append the conclusion, on the resumption of the hearing of the case…

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America. Church Music

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 August 1876 · page 7

An American philharmonic journal tells the administrators of the musical offices of the New York churches to take a lesson from what Father Young produces in the…

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