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Churches, 1890

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 5

The half-yearly gathering of the Juvenile Missionary Society in connection with the Petersham Wesley an Church was held on Sunday afternoon. The Rev. W. M'Callum…

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The Melanesian Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--The mission schooner Southern Cross has returned from a cruise in Melanesia. The voyage was uneventful. The various mission stations are…

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Primitive Methodist New Church, Dulwich Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 7

The opening services of this church were commenced on Sunday last. The Rev. T. Parr, M.A., preached appropriate sermons morning and evening, and in the afternoon addresses were given by the Revs. B, Kenny,…

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Croydon Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 3

Last evening a social gathering of the Croydon Congregational community was held in the Congregational Church at Croydon for the purpose of extending a welcome to the Rev. A. J. Griffiths, who has accepted…

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Robbing a Church. Committed for Trial. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 5

George Oliver, a seaman, was committed for trial this morning for robbing the Catholic Church yesterday. He smashed an iron poor-box and abstracted the money…

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A Church Robbed. Arrest of a Sailor. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 6

George Oliver, seaman, was arrested today on a charge of entering the Catholic Church, here and smashing open an iron poor-box and stealing the contents, £3 3s…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 3

Services to commemorate the first anniversary of the Rev. J. M. Bayley's pastorate of the Congregational Church, Leichhardt, were held on Sunday last. The morning service was…

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Impudent Robbery From a Church

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--This afternoon an impudent robbery was perpetrated in St. Mary's R.C. Church, on the hill. A sailor named George Oliver, during the absence of the…

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Amusements. Sydney City Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 6

The Second Regiment Brass Band, under bandmaster M'Mahon, gave musical entertainment in aid of the Chippendale Branch Poor Fund, in connection with the Sydney City Misilou, at St. Paul's Schoolroom, on…

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The Condition of the Roman Catholic Church. London, July 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 5

The Pope has summoned the Bishops and Cardinals of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to meet at Rome in 1801 to take into consideration the present condition of…

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Stealing a Poor-box From a Church. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.] Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 6

A young man named George Oliver was charged at the police court to-day with stealing from tha R. C. Church an iron box containing the sum of £3 3s 5d, the property of the Rev. Father Meagher. After the…

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Terrible Panic in a Church

The Australian Star · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 7

A TERRIBLE disaster is reported from the German town of Hildesheim as having occurred the village of St. Mahlen, near that town The district has recently…

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The Robbery From a Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--At the police court to-day a sailor named George Oliver was committed for trial for stealing an iron collection box from the Roman Catholic Church at…

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Catholic Scholarships

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 18

IN connection with the newly-established Catholic scholarships in the diocese of Melbourne the ADVOCATE explains that the total value of the prizes offered was about £500, and this sum was…

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Sydney City Mission

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

THE Second Regiment brass band, under Bandmaster M'Mahon, gave a musical entertainment in aid of the Chippendale Branch Poor Fund, in connection with the…

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The Presbyterian Church, Parramatta. Call of Rev. J. Inglis

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

At a meeting of the Sydney Presbytery on Tuesday evening, the edict on the call of the Rev. J. M. Inglis, of Leichhadt, to Parramatta was returned. Dr. Gilchrist reported…

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Catholic. St. Peter's, Surry Hills

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 15

THE Retreat conducted by the Rev. Oliver Daly, S.J., was closed on Sunday night, by the solemn renewal of Baptismal Vows. During the week over 1000 persons approached the Sacraments,…

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Catholic. School Fund Entertainment at Wagga

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 18

THE Wagga Wagga papers have glowing accounts of the musical and dramatic entertainment given in the local Oddfellows'Hall in aid of St. Michael's school fund The hall was crowded, and we are…

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The New Queensland Catholic Judge. Patrick Real's Appointment

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 18

IN our last issue it was briefly notified that Mr. Patrick Real, the well known barrister, had been offered the vacant judgship caused by the death of Mr. Justice Mein. The Brisbane COURIER states…

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A Result of Protection. Unemployed in Melbourne. Deputation to Ministers. the Anglican and R.C. Bishops Interviewed

Evening News · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 4

The Melbourne DAILY TELEGRAPH of Friday contains the following report of the proceedings of the unemployed in that city on the previous I day:-…

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