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Churches, 1888

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The Fatal Fire at Church Hill. Inquest on the Victims

The Australian Star · Wednesday 26 December 1888 · page 5

An inquest was commenced by the Acting-Coroner, Mr. H. T. Wilkinson, J.P., and a jury of 12, at the Croydon Hotel this morning upon the bodies of the young…

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Disastrous Fire at Church-hill. Wentworth House Family Hotel Destroyed. Two Lodgers Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 December 1888 · page 5

The quiet neighborhood lying between Jamieson-street and Charlotte-place was aroused early yesterday morning by an alarm of fire. The day had not yet begun, and the streets,…

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The Fatal Fire at Church Hill. Inquest on the Victims

The Australian Star · Thursday 27 December 1888 · page 6

An inquest was commenced by the Acting-Coroner, Mr. H. T. Wilkinson, J P., and a jury of 12, at the Croydon Hotel this morning upon the bodies of the young…

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The Fatal Fire at Church-hill. Opening of the Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 December 1888 · page 4

An inquest touching the death of Thomas Theodore Charles Armstrong and Edgar Caulfield, the two young men who were killed by falling from the roof of the Wentworth House…

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The Mission Schooner Dayspring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 8

Yesterday the smart three-masted schooner Dayspring, Captain Braithwaite, returned to port from her missionary labours down in the islands. She has been away since September 22 last, and now returns, not because there is no further need of her…

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REVIEW. Dante and Other Essays: Bacon, Spenser 3 vols. By Dean Church. MacMillan and Co., London, 1888

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 5

Dante has never been more carefully and accurately treated than in Dean Church's essay. The essayist has exhausted all the resources of information attainable which could throw light upon the life, character,…

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The Late Fire at Church Hill. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 4

Sir,—Sydney has much to learn, and can learn much from even the other colonies. In New Zealand the disaster which has led to the loss of two promising young lives would be practically impossible. There, every hotel…

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Catholic. Memorable Events of 1888. the Colony's Centennial Year

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 14

To the Catholic community, the year which is just closing should be a memorable one, for it has been crowded with events more or less important. The month of January saw the historic meeting…

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Disastrous Fire at Church Hill. Destruction of Wentworth House Hotel and Loss of Life. Escape of the Freeman's Journal Office

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 9

A SADDER sight on Christmas morning-on the day which is the synonym for brightness and happiness-it would be difficult to imagine than the charred ruins of Wentworth House Hotel,…

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The Pope's Jubilee Thanksgiving. a Universal Demonstration of Faith and Gratitude. Special Services in All the Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 14

WE have been favoured by his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop with the following circular addressed to the clergy of the Archdiocese of Sydney, and also with a copy of the recent…

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Christmas in the Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 14

CHRISTMAS was ushered in with all the charms of one of those peculiarly Australian " marvellous mornings " of which Kendall sings so sweetly, and while everything was bright and beautiful in…

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Broad Churchism, Mahometanism. &c

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 4

Our attention has been so forcibly demanded, by the arrogance of what is called High Churchism, that we have not been able to spare time to the other evil…

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The Church and the World

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 4

We believe that a good many of the views taken of the Christian life in the world, savour far more of mediævalism and Popery, than of Protestantism, and…

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How were the Primitive Churches constructed Internally?

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 7

The garments of the day, various in form and name, were worn by ministers and people, in Church and out of Church, and only became distinctive to the former, by the latter…

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The Fatal Fire at Church Hill. Inquest on the Victims

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 6

The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of the young men, Edgar Caulfield and George Theodore Charles Armstrong, who died from injuries received on Christmas…

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The Fatal Fire at Church-hill. Continuation of the Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 7

The inquiry into the death of the two young men, George Charles Armstrong and Edg[?] Caufelld, who were killed by falling from the roof of the Wentworth House Family…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 8

Under this heading, sermons by eminent preachers are puhlished in this widely-circulated paper, in order that, in the remote interior, whore there aro no churches, and a clergyman is rarely soon, tho stockman, the minor, the…

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Scene in a Leith Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 9

Not a little sensation was caused in St. Ninian's Free Church, Leith (Scotland), on a recent Sunday afternoon by a middle-aged man, just as the minister had uttered the words " Lot us pray,"…

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The Churches

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 2

Midnight Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick's Parramatta, on Christmas eve, the church being crowded to excess. Monsignor Rigney officiated at the Mass, and Mrs. Colley, the…

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Franco-australian Mission Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 December 1888 · page 8

A concert to celebrate the second anniversary of the Franco-Australian Mission took place on Saturday afternoon in the pavilion at Sans Sonel, George's River. The gathering was presided over by the pastor of the mission…

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