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Churches, 1896

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Roman Catholic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 10

Monsignor Verdon, the Bishop-elect of Dunedin, left by the Wakatipu for New Zealand yesterday. Monsignor Verdon was accompanied by the Bishop of Maitland. Cardinal Moran and Dr…

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Sussex-street Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 10

The Sussex-street Mission Church has taken a manse at No. 378 Pitt-street, where all the workers in connection with the mission will reside. Mr. George Lewis, the pastor of the mission, is…

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Notes & Comments. Our Fiji Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 7

No mission since the apostolic times has been more wonderful in its success, or in its triumph…

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The Catholic Deaf—mutes. (To the Editor)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 14

SIR,—In your issue of February 22 you published an appeal to the Bishops of Australia on behalf of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Waratah. It began :-" In our grand effort to put…

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Death of an Old Catholic School—master

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 20

THE Melbourne ADVOCATE records the death of Mr. William Meagher, at Geelong. The deceased gentleman was engaged in the National Schools, Ireland, and came to Victoria in 1851, under…

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The Catholic Soldiers' Institute. General Lord Roberts Contributes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 6

An important and interesting meeting was held at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, on March 4, for a most deserving object, viE., the establishment of a Catholic Soldiers' Institute at the Curragh Camp…

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The Egyptian Question. Russian Intrigue. a Secret German Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 12

LONDON, April 9— Russia is reported to be vainly urging Germany to embarrass England in regard to the latter's control of Egypt…

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Catholic Victims Op the Armenian Atrocities. a Franciscan Martyr

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 9

PREE Jullien, S.J., of Beirut, gives a detailed account of the terrible massacres in the Armenian towns of the villayet of Aleppo. The following brief statistical table relating to Marash, the town that…

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Catholic. St. Vincent's Ball. a Social and Financial Success

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 14

THE annual ball in aid of St. Vincent's Hospital (briefly chronicled in last week's FREEMAN) was, socially and financially, a great success. This year, thanks to the kind offices of Mr. Harvey, M.P., and…

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Immoral Advertising. (To the Editor of the Catholic Press.)

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 16

SIR,—I would not presume to interfere in the controversy between the writer of "Notes and Comments" and the "Rev. M. Long in your columns if you had been careful to stand as referee, and…

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A Suggestion. (To the Editor of the Catholic Press.)

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 16

SIR,—Pardon me an opinion—you can use it for what it is worth. Mr. H. Foran suggests there be a Catholic Association, and that your paper ought forthwith to assist in organising the same. I…

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Russia and China. Li Hung Chang's Mission London, April 16

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 11

A Russian man-o'-war has been detailed to convey Li Hung Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, from Port Said t[?] Odessa on the occasion of his visit to…

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Roman Catholic Missions in Fiji. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 7

Sir,—I am very glad that Bishop Videl resolves to cease writing on the above, and I therefore write my last letter. As Bishop Vidal very well knows, I have not referred to "payments for labour…

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The Income Tax Must Go. (To the Editor of the Catholic Press.)

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 7

SIR,—To lovers of freedom I wish, Sir, your kind permission to say a few words. I do not want to make a disquisition upon the "principles" of an income tax (for it has no principle), nor to point out…

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Our Catholic Institutions. No. Vi. Convent of the Good Samaritan, Pitt-street

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 18

THE mother house of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, whose foundation dates from 1857, occupies a good position in Pitt-street, close to Belmore Park. It consists of a fine block…

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Diocesan Endowment Fund. Archdeacon Piddington's Mission to England. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 9

This afternoon Archdeacon and Mrs. Piddington were formally welcomed by the ladies of the parish on the occasion of the Archdeacon's return from England after an absence of 14 months. He was…

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Correspondence. the Land and Income Taxes: Are They Constitutional ? (To the Editor of the Catholic Press.)

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 16

SIR,—In your "Notes and Comments" of Saturday last you criticise my recent writings on the above question "by missing the point of my argument and cavalierly proceeding to demolish an artificial case…

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Catholic. the Cardinal and the Hibernians. a Splendid Speech. Erin's Sons As Missionaries, Patriots, Scholars, Statesmen and Solodiers the [?]-Fruitful Tree of Irish Faith and Devotion

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 18

ON Sunday morning, last the members bf the Hiberman—Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, to the number of nearly 500, attended Mass in regalia at St. Benedict's and received Holy Communion…

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Church of our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Randwick

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 16

The Rev. Father Tierney, M.S.H., left this week on a visit to the missions in Thursday Island…

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Murdering a Memory. Mr. Arthur Galton and Cardinal Manning. a Cowardly and Calumnious Attack. the Corrupt Church—the Fighting Priests—the Vatican Council Conspiracy—the Hated Jesuits

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 15

IF the English critic was right in describing Mr. Edmund Sheridan Purcell's book as " An Attempt on the Life of Cardinal Manning," a verdict of wilful, murder must be recorded against the cowardly…

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