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Churches, 1908

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Public Schools' Championship. Church of England Grammar School Wins

Referee · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 10

The Great Public Schools of Sydney held their annual rowing carnival on the Parramatta River last Wednesday after-noon. Wind and weather could not have…

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Church Missionary Association Eighty-third Anniversary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 9

The large hall of the Y.M.C.A., Bathurst-street, was well filled last evening, when the New South Wales Church Missionary Association held its eighty-third annual meeting…

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Mr. Churchill's Fight. Hot Election Contest. London, May 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 9

The election contest at Dundee is becoming hot and fierce. Asked if Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, had telegraphed forbidding him to…

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Western Suburbs Churches' Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 12

The N.S.W. Presbyterian B Team defeated the Western Suburbs Churches' Union B Team by 90 runs. N.S.W. Presbyterians, 199 (Kennier 14[?] Forest 38 not out, Rev. Willis 35); Western Suburbs Churches' Union,…

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Winston Churchill and the Angry Suffragette Lively Incident in the Dundee Contest London, Tuesday, 3.5 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 1

Mr. Winston Churchill is having some lively experiences in his Dundee campaign. Yesterday, for instance, he round himself pursued by a pertinacious Hibernian lady,…

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Presbyterians in Conference. Modern Religious Life. the Drift From the Churches. Moderator's Address

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 7

The 43rd annual session of the State General Assembly was begun in St. Stephen s Church, Phillip-street, last night. The Moderator (Rev. Philip Norman) preached the opening sermon…

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The Dundee Contest. "Hot and Fierce." Heckling Winston Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 9

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Dundee contest is becoming hot and tierce. When asked if Mr. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, had telegraphed forbidding…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 57

The Rev. C. A. White, B. A., of Stanmore, has been appointed convener of the Sydney Presbytery's committee on religious instruction in public schools…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 57

Under this heading sermons by eminent preachers are published in this widely-circulated paper in order that in the remote interior, where there are no churches, and a clergyman is rarely seen, the…

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Presbyterian Church. the General Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 8

The business of the 43rd session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales was proceeded with yesterday in St. Stephen's…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 21

A concert in aid of Molong church funds is to be held on May 25th. It promises to be a big success. A fortnight's mission will be opened in…

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Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 10

Cardinal Del Drago by his will left twenty thousand lire to the Pops, fifteen thousand to the Cardinal Vicar, and five thousand each to his servants…

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Mission in Toowoomba

The Catholic Press · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 28

The Vincentian Fathers will open a mission in Toowoomba on Sunday, May 10. The mission will continue for a fortnight…

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Roman Catholic Vote Split

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 7

The Right Rev. Dr. [?]sley, Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, warmly supported the candidature of Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery (Unionist) for…

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New Church for Hurstville. Foundations Blessed by the Cardinal. a Progressive Parish

The Catholic Press · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 19

St. Michael's Church, Hurstville, has outlived its usefulness, and the foundation stone of a new building was laid and blessed on Sunday afternoon by his Eminence Cardinal…

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Presbyterian Assembly Last Evening's Sitting

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 2

The principal business before the sitting of the State Presbyterian Assembly last evening, at St. Stephen's Church, was the reception of the reports from the…

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Leichhardt Catholic School. Bazaar Opened by Monsignor O'brien. the Needs of Catholic Education

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 32

The Rev. J. O'Reilly, in charge of St. Fiacre's Church, Leichhardt, determined that the large obligation which rested on tho parish through the erection of the new wing to…

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The Richard O'Neill College Magnificent Gift to the Church. Bequest of a Generous Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 34

Some hundreds of ladies and gentlemen assembled in the grounds surrounding the building known as the Richard O'Neill College, at Garden Vale, between Eisterwick…

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The Bookworm's Corner Australasian Catholic Truth Society

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 26

We have from the central office of the A. C. T. S. (Melbourne) the three, latest booklets of the penny series—Nos 56., 57, and 58, and we have no hesitation in saying…

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Death of Father Flynn. Parish Priest of Lambton, a Sad Loss

The Catholic Press · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 13

The death of Rev. Father James J. Flynn occurred at Lambton on Wednesday week, after an illness of a few days. He was born in Singleton in 1861, his father, Mr. John…

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