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Churches, 1880

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Churchwardens and Pewholders

Evening News · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 5

A singular case in which churchwardens figured as plaintiffs, trying to recevey pow rents from parishioners, was heard on the and instant in the Small Debts…

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St. Thomas's Church, Port Macquarie. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 15

SIR,—Permit me to draw your attention to an incorrect answer given to a query by "Churchwarden, Port Macquarie," in your last issue. You have, unfortunately, been taken at a great disadvantage by the ambiguous way in…

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Correspondence. Church Collections for the Irish Famine Fund. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1880 · page 3

Sir,--In last Saturday's issue, your leader are the Irish Relief Fund reflects on the conduct of the heads of Protestant seels in this land for not following in the wake of Archbishop Vaughan, and ordering…

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Proposed Church of England Grammar School for the Newcastle Diocese

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1880 · page 7

To propose a new Denominational Grammar School just at this particular juncture, when the Government is about to establish Public grammar schools in the principal towns of the colony, may at first sight seem…

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Church of England Grammar School. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1880 · page 3

Sir,—In your issue of yesterday I read with satisfaction the favourable notice respecting the proposed scheme for the establishment of a Proprietary Church of England Grammar School for the diocese of Newcastle…

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Anglican Proprietary Schools Scheme

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 12

AT a time when each religious body is to be thrown on its own educational resources if it wishes its children to be taught religion, the first step taken by…

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Bourke-street Congregational Church

Evening News · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 3

This church was opened for Divine service on Sunday last, when sermone were preached by the Rev. W. Si[?]tyer in the morning, the Rev. J. H. Fletcher in the afternoon, and the Rev. J. Je[?]rics, LL.B. in the…

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Maloga Aboriginal Mission

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 3

Last night a public meeting of the friends and supporters of the Maloga Aboriginal Mission was held in the Temperance Hall, being attended by few but influential gentlemen, with one or two ladies, of the city…

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The Maloga Mission

Evening News · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 3

Last night, at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, a public meeting was held for the purpose of organising a society for the protection of the aboriginals of New South Wales. There was only a small…

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Church Courtesy, to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 6

Sir,—I am an invalid, sent by the doctors from England in the vain search for health. But I wished on my last Sunday in Sydney to go to St. James' Church. I was much exhausted when I reached it, and with painful effert…

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Church Society Meeting at Waverley

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1880 · page 3

The 21st annual meeting of the Waverley Auxiliary of the Church Society was hold at St. Mary's schoolroom last evening, there being a fair attendance of the parishioners of the Church of England at that…

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Italy. Catholic Education in Egypt

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 7

We have much pleasure in announcing that the Fathers of the Society of Jesus are about to open a college at Cairo, having arranged all the preliminaries with the Sacred…

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The Grounds of a Roman Catholic Priest in Queensland

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 7

[Let our readers study well this letter, which we take from the Brisbane Courier, and which tells of the burning heaving lava below the surface of Mount Etna.]…

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Roman Catholic Fair Play. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 7

SIRS,--"I do not believe in a platform which allowed one person to offer insult to the religion of another I believe in Henneberry, but I do not believe in Chiniquy." So said Archbishop…

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Church Courtesy. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 2

Sir,—As no other notice has been taken of the letter under this heading in your issue of Tuesday last, permit me to ask the particular attention of the Church of England laity to it…

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Temperance in Nonconforming Churches

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 351

We continue the paper read by Mr. Michael Young at the Crystal Palace Jubilee Conference, held on the 2nd of September, 1879 :— At the Conference recently held in the Truro the following…

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Church of England Political Association

Evening News · Monday 23 February 1880 · page 3

The following prospectus of a proposed association for the maintenance of Church of England Schools, and of religious teaching in public schools, has been circulated amongst the C. E. clergy and…

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Church Missionary Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 February 1880 · page 6

Yesterday evening a meeting in connection with the Church Missionary Society was held in the Church Society's room, Phillip-street. There was a numerous attendance, including many clergymen of the Church of England. The…

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Botany Presbyterian Church

Evening News · Thursday 26 February 1880 · page 3

Some weeks since we noticed the opening services of the new Pre[?] Church, at Botany. On Tuesday last, the congregation [?] friends [?] by a com[?]rative tee and public meeting, the…

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The Church of England Denominational, School, Pyrmont. To the Editor

Evening News · Thursday 26 February 1880 · page 2

SIR,—On behalf of the local board of the above school, kindly allow me to contradict the statement in this morning's HERALD, which into[?]s the public that we "have applied to the Council of Education…

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