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Churches, 1887

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Catholic. Bishop Hutchinson

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 14

WE learn by our files to date May 7, that in addition to the other episcopal honours in Australia, of which mention has been made in these columns, the Very Rev. Monsignor Hutchinson…

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Mr. Matthew Burnett's Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 5

HARDEN, Friday.--Mr. Matthew Burnett, the social reformer, visited Harden and Murrumburrah on Wednesday and Thursday. He addressed the men of the locomotive department…

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Catholic. New Church at Randwick. Laying the Foundation-stone

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 17

ON Sunday last, according to announcement, his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop laid the foundation-stone of a new church in Avoca-street, Eandvick. It is not many years since a similar…

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Catholic Progress at Wagga Wagga

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 14

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—Our very rev. pastor, in making some announcements from the Altar on last Sunday, paid a high and well-merited compliment to the generosity of the Catholics of…

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Anglican Synod of the Newcastle Diocese. Newcastle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 1242

The second session of the eighth Anglican Synod met in the City Hall, Newcastle, to-day. Thirty-one clergymen and seventeen laymen were present. The Rev. Canon Selwyn, Vicar-General and administrator of the diocese…

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The Roman Catholic Bishop of Grafton. Lismore

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 1242

The Very Rev. Dean Doyle, of Lismore, who has been appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Grafton, was born in the diocese of Cork, Ireland, in 1849, and was educated at All Hallows' College, Dublin. He was ordained…

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What to Do With Our Girls. the Methodist Ladies' College

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 28

Hitherto all the best things in the educational world have been reserved for boys. For them great colleges have risen; and wealthy endowments have been formed. But giris have been…

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Wesleyan Church Bazaar

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 5

The bazaar held at the Temperance Hall, Penrith, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, in aid of the church debt funds, has been most successful. During each…

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Opening of St. Brigid's Church, Branxton

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 18

ABOUT twenty-one years ago, a few days after the arrival of his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, first Bishop of the Maitland diocese, he was asked to bless the then recently completed church of St…

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Lord R. Churchill on the Army and Navy

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 10

London, June 5.—Great sensation has been created by a speech by Lord R. Churchill, in which he unsparingly attacked the administration of the English army and navy. He asserted…

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St. Pauls Church, Balmain West

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 3

The scenic light exhibition of dissolving views announced in our last issue to take place on Tuesday evening in connection with the Band of Hope was a great success…

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Montague.st. Wesleyan Church Anniversary

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 3

The above was celebrated on Sunday last by three sermons, continued on Wednesday by a tea meeting. The Sunday services were conducted in the…

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Telegraphic Lord Randolph Churchill at Wolverhampton. London, June 5

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 1210

Lord Randolph Churchill delivered an address last night at a Conservative meeting at Wolverhampton. He revealed some astounding examples of neglect on the part…

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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 11 June 1887 · page 8

Under this heading, Sermons by eminen[?] preachers are published in this widely-circulared 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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New Anglican School Church, Golden Grove

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Foster, M.F., laid the memorial stone of a school church in Atercrombie-street, Golden Grove, on Saturday afternoon. The building is being erected in connection with the…

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New Catholic Church at Manly. Laying of the Foundation-stone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 4

The solemn blessing of the foundation-stone of the new Roman Church of St. Mary Im[?]aculate, which is about to be erected at Manly, was performed yesterday afternoon by his Eminence, Cardinal Moran. The new church, the…

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School Church, Golden Grove

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 4

The memorial stone of a school church, to be erected in connection with St. Barnabas's Church, was laid in Abercrombie-street, Golden Grove, on Saturday afternoon, by Mr. Foster, M.L.A., in the presence of a large number…

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Church of England Temperance Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 4

The annual festival of the juvenile members of the Church of England Temperance Society was held at the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association on Saturday afternoon. The chair was occupied by the Ven…

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New R. C. Church at Manly

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon his Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed and laid, with appropriate ceremonial, the foundation-stone of a new R. C. Church at Manly. With a view to making the…

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Church of England Temperance Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 7

A conference of members of the Church, of England Temperance Society took place in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association building last evening. There was a fair attendance. The chair was taken by the Ven…

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