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Broken Hill & the Far West · Schools

Schools, 1890

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Sunday School Conference. [By TELEGRAPH.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) WAGGA, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 3

A conference of representatives from the various Sunday schools is at present sitting here…

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A Dangerous Drain. A Schoolboy Drewned. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 3

A schoolboy named Johnson, at Toorak, returning from school yesterday afternoon, attempted to walk over a deep drain by a plank stretched across, and fell off into…

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Schoolhouse Burned Down. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 3

The schoolhouse at Ash Island, near Newcastle, has been burned to the ground. The cause is unknown…

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State Schools Burnt Down. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 July 1890 · page 2

Two State schools were destroyed by fire yesterday. One the North Sandhurst School, is believed to have been fired by an incendiary. The Central school,…

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School of Mines

Barrier Miner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of the recently appointed Technical College and School of Mines Board of Advice was held last evening at the Australian Club Hotel. Present—…

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A Precocious Schoolgirl. States that She was Chloroformed and Out aged. Story Investigated and Proved Untrue. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 25 July 1890 · page 5

It will ba recollected that a few days ago a schoolgirl of Collingwood, aged 12 years, told the police a sensational story of having been accosted in the streets on…

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Sandhurst School of Mines. Feeding Non-Union Workshops. A Row with the Engineers. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 August 1890 · page 3

Mr. Dunn, foreman of Horwood's foundry, Sandhurst, has been teaching metal working at the Sandhurst School of Mines, and several of his pupils have…

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The Peace Society. Protest Against Drilling School Children. [By Telegraph.] (From Own Our Correspondent.) ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 August 1890 · page 2

The South Australian Peace Society protests to the Minister of Education against the intended drilling of school children with rifles as putting instruments…

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South Australian Finances. Estimate of Revenue and Expenditure. Budget Speech to Day. [By TELEGRAPH.] From Our Own Correspondent ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 August 1890 · page 2

The estimates of the Government expenditure for the financial year 1891 were laid on the table of the Assembly yesterpay. The total estimated expenditure is…

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Adelaide School for the Blind

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 August 1890 · page 2

WHILE in Adelaide Mr. A. A. Brice informs us he had the pleasure of being shown over the Industrial School for the Blind, North Adelaide, by the president…

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Alleged Outrage. Another Prececious Schoolgirl. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 September 1890 · page 3

Yesterday Susan Chits, a child of tender years, reported to the Brighton police that a young man had forcibly carried her to the ti-tree scrub on the beach and…

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School Picnic

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 September 1890 · page 2

THE children attending the High School at the Roman Catholic Convent are being treated to a picnic at the racecourse to-day. The little ones were conveyed out…

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The New School of Explorers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 3

IT IS but a little while since the earth was a mystery to its inhabitants. Vast spaces upon the map were frankly confessed by the geographer to be utterly unknown to…

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Public Schools' Picnic

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 October 1890 · page 2

THE scholars of the Broken Hill, Broken Hill North, and Alma Public Schools yesterday held the long-expected picnic at Silverton. The Silverton Tramway…

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London School Board. Mr. Conybear[?] Removed. a Paltry Proceeding. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 29 October 1890 · page 2

Mr. C. A. V. Conybeare, M.P. for Camborne, Cornwall, has been defeated in the litigation brought to remove him from his scat on the London…

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Alma Public School

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 November 1890 · page 2

MR. J. A. M'PHIE, who has been for the past seven years first assistant in the superior public schools at Darlinghurst and Redfern, has been appointed head…

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Convent School Children's Concert

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 November 1890 · page 2

To-morrow night a grand concert by the children of the Roman Catholic Convent School will be given at the Royal, when in addition to a very lengthy…

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Public School Rules

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 3

THE public schools in New South Wales are to have placed within them a number of orders issued by the Minister for Public Instruction. They are as follows:…

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The Technical School. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 November 1890 · page 2

Sir,—Your contemporary is nothing if not spiteful! Witness the leader in this morning's issue, on a "School Without Learning." This is not the first nor second…

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State Aid to Catholic Schools. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. AUCKLAND

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 November 1890 · page 2

The Minister for Education states that under certain conditions he is in favor of the State aiding Roman Catholic Schools…

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