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harvest. When archdeacon Reibey conducted divine service here on Sunday, 23 March 1862, he had a congregation of over sixty people. Nine children were baptised during the service. Reibey and
Fereday also visited
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A full report of the great libel case, Reibey v. Blomfield : tried at the
Supreme Court, Launceston, before His Honor Sir Francis Smith, Knt., Chief Justice, June 1870
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islands in the middle of the 19th century to minister to the spiritual needs of the islanders of
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223:mutton-bird
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129:Launceston
102:1821-09-24
639:Propsting
589:Kennerley
269:Stockwell
210:in 1854.
137:Australia
54:In office
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609:Crowther
355:(1949).
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