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Churches, 1887

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The New Australian Church. an Imposing Ceremony. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The foundation stone of the new Australian Church, under the pastorate of Rev. Charles Strong, in Flinders street, was laid yesterday according to ancient…

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New Church at Gundagai

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Saturday.--A bazaar aid of St. Patrick's new church building fund was opened in Mr. J. W. Fry's Assembly-hall, on Wednesday, and brought to a close last night. It was…

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N.s.w. Mission to the Blind

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 5

The eighth annual meeting of the New South Wales Mission to the Blind was held at the Temperance-hall last night. The Hon. James Ingh, Minister for Public Instruction,…

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New South Wales Mission to Tee Blind

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

The annual meeting of the above institution was held last night, at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, the attendance being only moderate, owing no doubt to the threatening aspect of the weather. The Hon. James Inglis,…

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Catholic Hospital Sports, Parramatta

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 18

A MEETING was held at the White Horse Hotel, Parramatta, last week to consider the arrangements in connection with an afternoon's athletic sports which are to be held in the Central Cumberland…

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Catholic Students at the University

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 18

THE following are the results of the University examinations lately held :— MATRICULATION EXAMINATION, HONOURS…

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A Catholic Bishop on Opium-smoking

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 20

THE Right Rev. Monsignore Raimondi, the Bishop of Hong Kong, who is at present in Sydney, has been relating his experiences in the Chinese Empire. Monsignore Raimondi's…

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Catholic Obituaey. Father Thomas Keating, S.j

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 18

A TELEGRAM on Monday week from Melbourne brought us the melancholy intelligence of the death of Father Thomas Keating, S. J., at the Jesuit College, Kew. The deceased was in many respects a…

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Catholic. Death of a Little Sister Op the Poor

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 15

ON Tuesday last the vows which were made at the altar ten years ago by Sister Alexandrine St. Mary, of the Little Sisters of the Poor, were consummated amidst all the holy and tranquil…

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The Rev. William Bain, Newcastle, Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly, 1887

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 8

The Rev, William Bain, minister of the Hunterstreet Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, whose portrait appears this week, has, by the all but unanimous vote of the presbyteries of the church,…

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Church Affairs at Orange

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 18

THE first quarterly subscription for the reduction of the debt on church properties at Orange fully came up to expectation. The bishop of the diocese (Dr. Byrne) was present, and previous to the…

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The Churches. "O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light, O balm of care and sadness, Most beautiful, most bright." Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 8

Under this [?]eading, Sermous by eminent preac[?]ers are published in this widely-circulated journal in order to present sound religious literature in the colony, and especially in the remote interior. By this means the isolated free…

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A Literary Churchman

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 8

The name of the Rev. S. Baring-Gould is widely known throughout the reading world as that [?] an interesting and prolific writer upon curious and out-of-the-way subjects. especially those…

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Glebe Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 March 1887 · page 8

There was a large congregation at the Glebe Presbyterian Church last evening, it having been announced that the Rev. A. Gardiner, M.A., would make special reference to the Bulli colliery disaster. The rev. gentleman took his…

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Petersham Baptist Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 March 1887 · page 8

The Rev. J. H. Soper referred to the Bulli disaster and its lessons to the living in his evening sermon at the Baptist Church yesterday. The reverend gentleman took his text from Proverbs xxvii., 1—"Boast not thyself of to-morrow,…

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Glebe Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 March 1887 · page 8

"An Appeal from Bulli—Widow's Woe and Orphans' Want" was the subject of an eloquent discourse delivered yesterday evening, in the Glebe Congregational Church, by the Rev. T. E. Owens-Mell. There was a moderate…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 March 1887 · page 5

Special reference was made at several of the city and suburban churches yesterday to the terrible disaster at the Bulli colliery. From the words "There is but a step…

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Sir Samuel Griffith's Mission. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.--It is understood that the interviews between Sir Samuel Griffith and the Secretary of State for the Colonies re the protectorate of New Guinea, and the…

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Lord Randolph Churchill. London, March 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 7

Lord Randolph Churchill has returned to England from Algiers, where he has been staying for the benefit of his health…

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Lord Randolph Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Lord Randolph Churchill has returned to England from Algiers, where he has been staying for the benefit of his health…

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