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Churches, 1880

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Opening of the Catholic Church at Caddai, Windsor Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 15

IT was our privilege to be present at the opening of the above church on Sunday, 8th instant, and it is but, just that an occasion of such solemnity and importance should not be allowed to remain…

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Anglican Marriages

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Friday.—A startling point was raised in the Supreme Court here, yesterday, in a bigamy ease. The counsel for the defence contended that the first marriage of the accused was…

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Other Catholic Items

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 15

THE GOOD SAMARITAN, PITT-STREET.—One of those ceremonies, the giving of the religious habit, which are now, thank God, so common amongst us, took place at the above Convent…

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Sir Henry Parkes on High Treason, Sedition, and Catholic Education

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 12

ON Wednesday night week, Sir Henry Parkes, in the course of a speech in the Assembly on the 26th clause of the Education Bill, announced that circumstances…

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Opening of St. Patrick's Church, Lithgow

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 14

ON Sunday last the newly-erected church at Lithgow Valley, dedicated to St. Patrick, was solemnly opened for Divine Service, and we must confess that the musical arrangements and the…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 39

SIR,—I have read the disingenuous statement in your valuable-periodical signed "Churchmen." The only excuse I could offer for him is his extreme youth, and want of experience in church matters. I trust you will excuse my…

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Church Society's Annuaal Meeting

Evening News · Tuesday 2 March 1880 · page 3

THE annual meeting of the Church Society was held last night in St. James's schoolroom, Elizabeth-street. There was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen. His lordship the Bishop of Sydney presided. The meeting was…

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Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1880 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Church Society for the diocese of Sydney was held in St. James's Schoolroom, Castlereagh-street, on Monday night. The Bishop of Sydney occupied the chair, and on the platform were Dr. Stanton, Bishop of…

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Church of England School's Certificates. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1880 · page 7

Sir,—At a meeting of the Church of England Schools Defence Committee held last evening, I was requested, as chairman, to write to you with reference to two statements which appeared recently in your columns, with a view to…

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Other Catholic Items

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 15

THE REV. J. J. SHERIDAN.—This rev. gentleman, who, our readers will remember, left Sydney some time since and sojourned in Tasmania to recruit his health, returned to Sydney last week…

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A Sheaf of Irish Mission Handbills R. C. Christmas Confessions, Absolutions, in Indulgences--can They Give Peace to Any Soul?

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 6

Does not the R. C. Church teach as follows ? Q. 'What punishment does the Church indict on the persons who neglect to confess their sins once a year, and to receive the Holy…

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Lithgow Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 20

THE following is a notice of the music rendered by the choir at the opening of the Lithgow Church on Sunday, February 22 :—The "Kyrie" was the incomparable one, full of lofty…

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Ladies' Column. Odds and Ends. Ladies' Classes at the School of Arts— Tattooino Royal Noses.—double Wedding —Uncivil Ladies—fashions for Winter— Novelties—the New Lighthouse—a Fashionable Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 28

IF the wives and daughters of Sydney are not good housewives and managers, it will not be for want of capable instructresses. Apart from Miss Whiteside's excellent demonstrations of cookery, we have Mrs…

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Church Society's Annual Meeting

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 13

THE annual meeting of the Church Society was held last Monday in St. James's schoolroom, Elizabeth-street. There was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen. His lordship the Bishop of Sydney presided. The meeting was…

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A Mission from China to New South Wales

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1880 · page 3

Some philanthropic Celestial, a correspondent informs us. being shocked us the raising of the veil which hides a certain class of social life from public view, and feeling convinced that the comprehension…

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Certified Roman Catholic Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 3

Sir,—As no one versed in newspaper controversy has replied to that part of the article of Wednesday last which referred to the above subject; will you kindly allow an amateur to do so in to-morrow's issue? You acknowledge…

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Sydney Female Mission Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1880 · page 8

The following is the report of the Sydney Female Mission Home for 1879:— "In reviewing the work of the past year, the committee of the Sydney Female Mission Home feel called upon,…

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Other Catholic Items

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 15

DEPARTURE OR DR. LANIGAN FOR EUROPE.—The Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan, Bishop of Groulburn, left by the Garonne on Monday last for Europe. He was accompanied by the Very Rev…

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Catholic Vote in Victoria

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 7

The following specimen of priestly wippingup voters to help the church, in Victoria has been sent to us :-- R. C. Presbytery,…

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The Catholic Vote at the Victorian General Election

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 12

NOTHING is so easy in politics as the accomplishment of a temporary success by the proscription of a minority, whose principles are unpopular. To treat such…

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