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Churches, 1881

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Statistics of the Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 7

As surprising as were the facts presented in the view of Protestantism in the United s States given in a recent issue of the Christian at Work, that which is now given of the…

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A Proposal to Marry the Scotch and Anglicar Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 31

THE following letter, signed "A Church of England Clergyman," appears in Saturday's Melbourne "ArguB":—Sir,—Many of your readers, I doubt not, are exceedingly anxious to see some satisfactory…

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Department of Public Instruction, 8th August, 1881. Tenders for Leasing Church and School Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 September 1881 · page 2

NOTICE is hereby given that TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 o' clock on TUESDAY, the 13th September, 1881, for the Leasing of any of the Pastoral or Farm Lots specified in the schedule published in the Suppliment to the Government…

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Church and School Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1881 · page 2

With a view to removing the doubt existing as to the interpretation of Cla[?]es 2 and 6 of the conditions embodied in the Form of Tender, as notified in the Gazette, No. 309, of the 9th August, 1881…

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Catholic. Death of Archbishop Steins, S.j

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 14

IN a recent issue we made the sorrowful announcement of the death of the Right Rev Dr. O'Quinn, Bishop of Brisbane, and it now becomes our painful duty to chronicle the decease of…

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Real Property Act. Notice of Intended Issue of Provisional Certificate of Title, Vol. 53, FOL. 221. Proprietor: Samuel Mathews. Jun. Land: 2 roods 17 perches, town and parish of Coonamble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 8

The proof of loss of the abovenamed original and other particulars required by section 95 of the abovenamed Act (26th Vic. No. 9) before issues of Provisional Certificate of Title having been supplied,—I hereby, with the consent of the Land Titles…

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Church and School Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 8

With a view to removing the doubt existing as to the interpretation of Clauses 2 and 6 of the conditions embodied in the Form of Tender, as notified in the Gazette, No. 309, of the 9th August, 1881…

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Department of Public Instruction, 8th August. 1881. Tenders for Leasing Church and School Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 8

NOTICE is heieby given that TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 13th September. 1881, for the Leasing of any of the Pastoral or F[?] Lots spceified in the schedule published in the Supplement to the Government…

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Ecclesiastic. Scots' Church, Melbourne, Again

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 447

At a meeting of the Melbourne Presbytery, 6th Sept., the Rev. F. R. M. Wilson formally charged Mr. J. C. Stewart, representative elder of Scots Church, with making public statements subversive of the principles and teachings…

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Scene in the Gaelic Church at Paisley

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 7

At the forenoon service of the Gaelic Church at Paisley, when the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie entered the pulpit and commenced the service in English, in accordance with the recent…

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The Restoration of Churches Is the Restoration of Popery. a Pamphlet : By the Very (Rev. Francis Close, D.D., Dean of Carlisle. London. Newman and Co., 43 Hart Street, Bloomsbury.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 7

This is the republication of a sermon preached by Dean Close at Cheltenham, in 1844, when Ritualism was still in its infancy, and when it was little thought that the…

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Methodist Ecumenical Conference

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1881 · page 2

LONDON, September 9.—The Ecumenical Council of Wesleyan Methodists has opened in London, and among those present are 16 delegates from Australia…

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Presbyterian Bazaar at Newtown

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 September 1881 · page 3

A bazaar in aid of the funds of the Newtown Presbyterian Church was opened at the Newtown Town Hall on Saturday afternoon, and from the results which have already been achieved there is…

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A Presbyterian Clergyman in Court. WILCANNIA

Evening News · Wednesday 14 September 1881 · page 2

To-day, at the police court, the Rev. William Webster, a Presbyterian minister, was charged by Mr. Thomas B. Coe, J.P., with using words calculated to cause a breach of the peace…

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Presbyterian Bazaar at Newtown

Evening News · Thursday 15 September 1881 · page 3

The excellent bazaar, in aid of a debt of £400 existing on the Presbyterian Church in Wellington-street, North Kingston, which opened in the Newtown Town Hall last Saturday, under most auspicious…

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The Oldest Church in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 September 1881 · page 7

The public buildings erected during the suspicious vice-royalty of that sturdy warrior, Lachlan Macquarie, whilome satrap of Australia, are not calculated to overawe the observer by any very remarkable display…

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Methodist Ecumenical Conference

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 11

LONTON, September 9.—The Ecumenical Council of Wesleyan Methodists has opened in London, and among those present, are 16 delegates from Australia…

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Catholic Missionary Work at Britain

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 17

THE Cooktown. Courier gives the following par-ticulars in reference to the Rev. Father Lunnuzel, who is at present, in Sydney, and his mission at Port Breton, New, Ireland.— The Rev. Father…

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The Roman Catholic Viceroy of India

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 4

The series of meetings held last year throughput the country to protest against the appointment of the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India showed how…

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Catholic. Obsequies of the Late Archbishop Steins

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 15

THE obsequies of the lamented prelate, the died in our city last week, were conducted with meet touching impressiveness and solemn grandeur. Anything more beautiful and affecting than the…

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