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Churches, 1882

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Diplomatic Mission. London, Nov. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 November 1882 · page 7

M. Giers, Ambassador for France at the Court of St. Petersburg, is about to pay a visit to Prince Bismarck aud Count Kalnoki…

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Marrickville Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 November 1882 · page 7

A meeting of the members of the Congregational Church, Marrickville, was held last night to welcome the Rev. Robert Day, who has accepted the charge of the church on the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Spence, whose state of…

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Catholic. Sacred Heart Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 8

IN all OUR Catholic choirs no two gentlemen have performed their duties in so perfectly satisfactory a manner during the past eight or nine years as Mr. Ambrose Curtis and Mr. Charles Curtis,…

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Diplomatic Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 11

LONDON, November 20.—M. Giers, Ambassador for France at the Court of St. Petersburg, ie about to pay a visit to Prince Bismarck and Cou[?] Kalnoki…

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Catholic Parkes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 15

His Lordship the Bishop of Bathurst arrived here last Friday on his visitation tour and he was met on the outskirts of the town by a large procession, including the principal residents of…

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Catholic Directory NOVEMBER

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 4

Saturday, 25.— St. Catherine VM dup. V acap seq com prace Dom et S Petri Alexandri Em.Sunday, 26.— 24th Sunday after pentecost…

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Education in Ireland. Success of Catholic Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 5

We take the following analysis of the result of the Intermediate Examinations from the Irish Times of Tuesday. September 12:— The Intermediate Education Board met…

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The Santa Cruz Islands and the Melanesian Mission. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Norfolk: Island, Nov. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 9

The following brief narrative of these islands will doubtless be interesting to the friends of missionary enterprise, especially at this time, when Bishop Solwyn, with of M[?]lanesia, has, after inn [?] n[?]rabl[?]di[?]iculties, and…

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Church of England Congress in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 955

The Church of England Congress terminated yesterday. The visiting clergy were entertained at a breakfast by the clergy of the Melbourne diocese at the Coffee Palace, yesterday morning. The gathering was…

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Cobbitty Church

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 15

THE name of Cobbitty sounds strange and unfamiliar to many Sydney residents; but those who have become acquainted with the neighbourhood of the Nepean will recognise it as that of a picturesque little hamlet, situated…

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Scot's Church Manse, Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 25

IN the early days of Dr. Lang, when that stalwart Presbyterian worked heart and soul in the old-fashioned church at the top of Jamieson-street, he had no such comfortable place of abode as the…

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A Prolific Parish

Evening News · Tuesday 28 November 1882 · page 3

The "Govanhill Church Monthly Register" (says the Glasgow "Daily Mail") publishes evidence of the vitality of the district, which we hope, for the comfort of the parents therein, is not an every-month…

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Catholic. Dominican Convent, Newcastle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 8

One of the events of the year in this sea-girt city (writes our correspondent) is the annual entertainment given by the pupils attending the high school of the Dominican Convent. To it…

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Egypt. Catholic Soldiers in Egypt

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 6

A letter from Alexandria published in the Monde dwells on the religious liberty enjoyed by Catholics in the British army: "We feel it a duty (says the writer) to…

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Catholic. the New Convent at Burrowa

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 14

On Sunday last, 26th ult. tho imposing ceremony of blessing the foundation of a new convent building for the Sisters of Mercy of Goulburn (writes our correspondent) was celebrated with…

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Roman Catholic Children at Industrial Schools

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 7

The great disproportion in the relative numbers of Roman Catholic and Protestant children at Industrial Schools has been specially noticed in Manchester. The…

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The Church Army

Evening News · Monday 4 December 1882 · page 6

Before long the Salvation Army will have a rival in a Church Army, founded on the same principles as those so successfully inaugurated by General Booth, but free, as its promoters imagine, from any…

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Anglican Confessors

Evening News · Wednesday 6 December 1882 · page 3

When the American, who related how his black servant girl had been bitten by a rattlesnake, was asked whether she died, he answered, "No, Sir, our Sal killed the snake." In the same war some people…

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Presbyterian Sabbath-school Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1882 · page 7

The quarterly public meeting in connection with the Sabbath-school Association of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, at which teachers and others interested in Sabbath-school work were invited to be pr[?], was on…

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Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1882 · page 8

DR. Lanigan, Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, blessed the Mercy Convent and School at Murrumburrah on Sunday. There was a large congregation. The Very Rev. Dean O'Keeffe…

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