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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1879

106 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 6

Masrters [?]d Scholars

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 6

A gentleman who [?] part in the movement has kindly obliged us[?] he following notes of the presentation of a[?] to Mr. John Fraser, B A. On last Thur[?] afternoon a few gentlemen…

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Largs School of Arts. Half-yearly Meeting. (From our Largs correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1879 · page 4

The tenth half-yearly meeting of the members of the above institution was held in the hall, on Thursday evening, November 27th, 1879. Mr. R. F. Graham, President of the…

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Original Correspondence. Mr. Burden and the Quipolly School Board. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 10 December 1879 · page 2

SIR,—I have read a letter signed by the above named gentleman in your issue of the 22nd instant, and beg space in your columns to say a few words in…

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Bathurst Public School. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Bathurst

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1879 · page 3

At the Public school to-day the annual distribution of prizes and exhibition work took place previous to the breaking up for the holiday. Owing to the large increase in the…

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Poetry. a Country School

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 1

PRETTY and pale and tired, She sits in her stiff-backed chair, While the blazing summer sun Shines on her soft brown hair;…

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Rural Rambles Iii. Golden Brook School Feast

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1879 · page 2

"VERY hot to day, Sir!" was the general salutation on Saturday morning from those we passed on our way out to the great "to do" at the Glendon Brook…

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