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Churches, 1891

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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 September 1891 · page 9

Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date August 31: The Rev. J. B. Gribble, missionary to the aborigines, returned to Cairns on August 28 from the Herberton district. During his journey…

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Congregational Church, Parramatta. Fancy Fair and Floral Fete

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 September 1891 · page 4

DURING the present week—On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last—a Fancy Fair and Floral Fete, in aid of the funds of the Congregational Church, Parramatta, was held in the…

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St. Andrew's Church. Lecture in Town Hall, Parramatta. "Upside Down."

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 September 1891 · page 8

A LECTURE entitled "Upside Down," but the character of which was more distinctly intimated by its secondary heading, " Notes of a three months furlough in New Zealand it was…

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Opening of St. Francis Xavier's Church at Wollongong. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 September 1891 · page 8

Cardinal Moran, accompained by the Venerable Archpriest Sheehy, Dr O'Brien (rector of St.John's College), and Dr.O'Haran, arrived in Wollongong on Saturday. The object of Cardinal Moran's visit…

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Kissing in Church. a Young Man Imprisoned. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Monday 7 September 1891 · page 6

A young man named Patrick M'Mahon was sent to gaol this morning for three months for kissing girls in St. Patrick's Cathedral. He was quite sober, but was…

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Eight Days' Mission at Queanbeyan. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Queanbeyan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 5

An eight days' mission, held in Christ Church by the Rev. T. Symonds and the Rev. A. R. Rivers, of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, was brought to a close last night. The meetings were well attended…

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Return of a Mission Vessel. the Trip of the Lord of the Isles. Native Atrocities in the Bismarck Archipelago

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 6

Among the arrivals in Port Jackson on Sunday was the Sydney barquentine Lord of the Isles. This vessel, it will be remembered, was chartered by the Australasian Wesleyan…

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The Wesleyan Mission, New Guinea

Evening News · Wednesday 9 September 1891 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the Sydney Wesleyan ministers, held in the Centenary Hall on Monday morning, the Rev. G. Brown, the president of the conference, and general secretary of…

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The Russian Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 September 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- The Russian Orthodox Church propose that persons convicted of enticing people to join the Protestant Churches shall be sentenced to…

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The Presbyterian Federal Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 10

The Presbyterian Federal Assembly, recently in session at Brisbane, dispatched a commission to visit the site for the mission to the aborigines, on the recommendation of the Queensland…

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The Catholic Aboriginal Mission in West Australia. a Ridiculous Story

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 17

" Miss Clark read a paper on 'The Aborigines of Western Australia' at a meeting of the British Association, in which she declared that the Roman Catholic mission authorities at New Norcia had…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 15

It is expected that £1000 will be realized by St. Vincent's Hospital Fair. The list of winning numbers in the art-union drawing in connection with the Poor Clares'…

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Mission at Burwood

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 14

The [?]opened in St. Mary's, Concord, on the 28th ult. by the vincentian fathers was closed on last Sunday, the 6th instant. The large con-gregation that each day crowded the church,…

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Catholic St. Vincent's Ball

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 14

WITH the presence of Lord and Lady Jersey and the officers of the new auxiliary Australian squad-ron the ball at the Centennial Hall on Monday night in aid of St. Vincent's Hospital should be a…

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The Duke Op Argyle and Catholic Schools. a Tribute to the Catholics of Victoria

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 17

" A VICTORIAN " writing to the Melbourne Advocate , September 5,from London, says :- The eulogiums on the Roman Catholics of Victoria pronounced the other evening in the House…

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Catholic. a Brass Band or a Stone Statue. a Debate in the Hibernian Society

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 17

At the half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Society ia Sydney, the item of business which provoked the warmest discussion was an applica-tion from a Hibernian Baud committee for the sum of £83,…

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The Church of England

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 8

Evidence of the extent to which Romanizing doctrine and practice have attained in the Church of England is afforded by the ceremonial observed at the consecration of…

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Jubilee of the Free Church at Marnoch, Scotland

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 8

At the jubilee of the formation of the Free Church at Marnoch, Principal Rainy occupied the pulpit, and made special reference to the Marnoch case as connected with the…

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Nunnery Life in the Church of England. Chapter IX.--(Continued.) Convent Life at Llanthony

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 5

After suffering much at her hands for three years, I became convinced that she would never treat me better, and I made up my mind to leave the convent. When I asked her…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 6

The Cathedral chair paid their annual visit to St. Thomas', Bahnain, on Thursday evening. Choral service was effectively rendered, the anthem being " As pants the hart…

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