Sunday Opening of the School of Arts
The battle being fought over the opening of the School of Arts on Sundays is still going on. Last Friday a meeting on this vexed question took place,…
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The Sunday-School Drama. (From the New York Times.)
The attempt to combine the Sunday-school and the theatre is always a doubtful experiment. The two ingredients can rarely be united so as to produce a satisfactory result…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Plea for a School at Darlington. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
SIR,-It is said that the sun shines alike on the poor and the rich, and no law of heaven or earth forbide its radiance visiting the cottage of the peasant…
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THE following description of the new piano, at the Murr[?] School of Arts, which has been supplied to us, will doubtless interest many of our readers:-It is…
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The nineteenth half-yearly meeting of the members of the Woodville School of Arts was held in the institution on Tuesday evening. Notwithstanding the threatening aspect…
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A case of considerable importance came before the Braidwood Police Court on the 5th March (reported in the Dispatch) as follows:— —P. O'Heir was summoned by J. Ellis, before…
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Neil Gilmour, reports that over 1,030,000 New York boys and girls attended the public schools last year. Their teachers were paid…
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France has agricultural schools for girls. One of the chief is near Rouen, which is said to have been begun with a capital of one franc by a Sister of Charity and two little discharged prisoner girls, and…
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The half-yearly meeting of the members of the Maitland School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution, on Thursday evening. Between forty and fifty members were…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Original Correspondence. the Oakhampton Public School. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Permit me through the columns of your valuable journal to draw attention to the gross injustice and reprehensible conduct of the Government in regard to the above…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Public School Regulations. (Gazette, Wednesday May 12.) Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 4th May, 1880
The following Regulations for carrying out the provisions of the Public Instruction Act of 1880 have been made by His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the…
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1. In applying for aid to a Provisional School, the Promoters must satisfy the Minister that it is reasonably required in the locality, that the building and furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →APPENDIX C. Course of School Instruction. First Class
Reading: The " First Reading Book," sanctioned by the Minister. Writing: On slates, from copies and monosyllables from dictation…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →What the New Public Schools Act Has Done for Sir Henry Parkes. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
MR. EDITOR.—At a store not very far distant from the Railway Station. Tamworth, where I believe goods are sold for less than cost, what is more natural to suppose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Public School Weather Sheds. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
SIR,—On a recent Sunday afternoon, being in Hunter-street when a smart shower began to fall, to escape a wetting 1 took shelter in what is intended for…
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IT will be seen by the regulations published last Saturday that the scale of teachers' salaries under the Public Instruction Act is to be the following:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. a Public School Wanted at Willowtree. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I consider it my boundeu duty to make knowe, through your valuable journal, the following facts. Now, as the Government has acted so liberal, and has made…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. Combes' Report on School Builings
The fruit of Mr. Combes mission in Europe in search of information on the lighting, heating, and ventilation of school buildings, appears in the shape of a report with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Poetry. the Church Reveries of a Schoolgirl. (From Deccon Richard Smith's Cincinnati Gazette.)
I have a new bonnet: I'll go to church To hear the new preacher, young Jonathan Birch: He's single and handsome, but they say he's so shy, And that his sermons are long and dreadfully dry;…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Original Correspondence. Public School Teachers' Salaries. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
SIR,—I was much surprised to find by the extract you published last week from the regulations just issued under the new Education Act, by the Minister for…
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