Volunteer Band and School of Arts. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1862 · page 3
GENTLEMEN—Please find me space for the following propositions, which would greatly tend to the innocent amusement of the people in this dull town:- I would suggest, as the best means of securing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, February 18, 1862. Schools of Arts
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1862 · page 2
WE hear very often, from warm educational advocates, that a certain amount of education ought to be a necessary qualification for the elective franchise. How much has never been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland School of Arts. Half Yearly Meeting
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 April 1862 · page 2
The usual half yearly meeting of the members of the Maitland School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution, on Thursday evening Business did not commence until some time after the appointed hour, owing…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1862 · page 2
The members of the Morpeth School of Arts held the[?] usual half-yearly meeting in the Court-house (their temporary library and reading-room), on Thursday evening. The attendance numbered about twenty, nearly all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Debates at the West Maitland School of Arts. (To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1862 · page 6
GENTLEMEN—As an excuse for initiating my[?] in public letter writing, [?] merely desire to plead the importance of my subject as bearing upon the moral, [?]al, and intellectual welfare of our young men and upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliamentary Papers. Church and School Lands
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1862 · page 4
The dispatch containing the opinion of the Crown Law Officers of England on the Church and School Lands question, which was presented to the Legislative Assembly, on Wednesday night, by message from his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, June 1, 1862. the Church and School Lands
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1862 · page 2
It appears not unlikely that the Church and School Lands question will furnish tho first regular struggle of the session, whether or not the Cowper Ministry are to continue in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notice to Lessees of Church and School Lands. Agent's Office, Treasury, Sydney, 30th May, 1862
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1862 · page 7
Noties is hereby given to lessees of Church and School Lands, that unless all arrears of rent be paid within one month from this date, the leases of such lands will be cancelled…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1862 · page 6
The following letter appears in the Herald of the 3rd, addressed to the Editor:- Sir—As the question of the disposal of the Church and School Lands, is one of great importance, and as my…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliamentary Paper. a Bill to Make Further Provision Respecting the Church and School Lands
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1862 · page 6
Whereas by a charter or letters patent under the hand of Lieuteannt-General Sir Ralph Darling Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the colony bearing date the ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, July 8, 1862. the Church and School Lands
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1862 · page 2
THERE seems to be a fair probability that the Church and School Lands Bill will not reach the Upper House this session Although the Government have carried with them, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, August 2, 1862. the Estimates—schools of Arts
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1862 · page 2
WE regret that the Government have not had the moral courage to place on the Estimates a sum, say of £5000, forthe encouragement of education, knowledge, science, and art, by aiding Mechanics…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Popular [?]Tion. Better to build schoolhouses for the boy. Than prisons for the man." To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1862 · page 4
GENTLEMEN—Before we get a g[?] of the Education Bill from the sanctum of the Colonial secretary, its not by any means difficult to gue[?]s its aim and object— nothing more nor less than an attempt to g[?]ve our…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1862 · page 2
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Morpeth School of Arts was performed yesterday by E.C Close, Esq., patron of the institution. The day was fine, and an assemblage of some four hundred persons gathered together, the ladies, of…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1862 · page 2
The usual half-yearly meeting of the members of the Maitland School of Arts, West Maitland, took place at the Institute on Thursday evening. The President (the Rev J R. Thackeray) was in the chair. The attendance…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1862 · page 2
A public meeting of the lessees of estates of the Church and School Lands, in the counties of Durham, Gloucester, and Northumberland, was called by advertisement for 12 o'clock yesterday, at the Globe Inn, Morpeth. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Testimonial to the Very Rev. Dean Lynch. Public Meeting at St. John's Schoolroom
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1862 · page 2
A public meeting to consider the most suitable way in which the esteem of the inhabitants of the district could be conveyed to the very Rev. Dean Lynch, previous to his departure from Maitland, was called for half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland School of Arts. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 November 1862 · page 3
SIR,âWith the view of removing erroneous impressions, I beg to be permitted to explain in your columns, that when I spoke at the half-yearly meeting of the School of Arts, about the amount which the Committee…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1862 · page 2
The fifth half-yearly meeting of the School of Arts, Morpeth, was held in the Court-house, on Thursday evening, commencing at half-past eight o'clock. The President of the institution, Mr. Whytlaw, was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →National Model School Examination
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 December 1862 · page 2
The examination of the pupils in the National Model School[?] East Maitland took place on Tuesday last in the School-room, (formerly the Court-house) East Maitland. The District Inspector, Mr. Gardiner, commenced the examination at…
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