The Girls' High School, Maitland
The following communication from the Hon H. E Cohen, member for the town, to Mr. Jacob Cronch, chairman of the meeting held ia Maitland a short time ago, to protest…
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Poetry. a Country School
Pretty and pale and tired She sits in her stiff backed chair, While the blazing summer sun Shines in on her soit brown hair,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stroud School of Arts. (From our own correspondent.)
The annual general meeting in connection with this institution was held in the reading-room on the evening of the 27th instant. There was a fair attendance of members. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dr. Moran on Roman Catholic and Public Schools
On Sunday afternoon two buildings were opened at Macdonaldtown to be devoted to the education of the Catholic children of that place, by the Eoman Catholic Archbishop…
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This building is rapidly approaching completion, and a brief description of it will not be undesirable. The building is of wood and it is constructed on a large block of land at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Cavalry Corps Movement at Maitland. Public Meeting at the School of Arts
On Thursday evening a public meeting of persons interested in the establishment of a cavalry corps [?] the Maitland district was held in the School of Arts, West Maitland. Despite the inclemency of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland School of Arts. Half-yearly Meeting
The half-yearly meeting of members of the School of Arts, West Maitland, was hold in the hall of the institution on Thursday evening. The President (Mr. J. J. Riley)…
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On Friday afternoon, the ceremony was performed of presenting the prizes won by pupils of the West Maitland Superior Public School, previous to the last Christinas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton Grammar School v. East Maitland Grammar School
On Friday last representative teams from the above clubs met in friendly rivalry for the third time this season. Once more the goddess of cricket declared in favour of the Maitlanders, for whom Christian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland School of Arts. Special Meeting of Members
On Thursday evening a special general meeting of the members of the Maitland School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution, for the purpose of discussing and adopting a paragraph in the last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Inefficiency of District School Boards. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—At the ceremony of presenting the prizes at the Superior Public School in West Maitland, Mr. Brunker in the excellent address he made to the assemblage, alluded…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Overwork in German Schools
AFTER forty-two years experience, it is now virtually conceded in Germany that physical exercise is not a sufficient antidote to brain pressure, but that, when the evil exists, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late School Concert in East Maitland. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—As Secretary of the recent dramatic entertainment given by the pupils of the East Maitland Grammar School, I beg with all courtesy to say in reference to the line in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Public Schools and the Moral Degeneration of the Young. (To the Editor of Bus Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—in your issue of yesterday appears a report of the proceedings of the Synod of the diocese of Newcastle. One of the subjects before the Synod was the religious education…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Original Correspondence. Public Schools and the Moral Degeneration of the Young. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In less than ten minutes after reading the Rev, J. S. Laing's letter, referring to Canon White's statement in the Synod as to the "moral degeneration" of the youth of the present day, my attention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, June 20, 1885. East Maitland Grammar School Commemoration Day. (from a Correspondent.)
The annual sports in connection with tbe above school came off on Wednesday last on the Albion Ground, West Maitland. There were fourteen events altogether. The day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Public Schools and the Moral Degeneration Oe the Young. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In a letter from the Rev. J. S. L[?], published in your issue of Saturday Just, [?]ere is a challenge thrown out to the Rev. Canon White, to prove the truth of a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Original Correspondence. Public Schools and the Moral Degeneration of the Young. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Whether Canon White will consider himself fortunate or otherwise in the voluntary advocacy of Rev. T. Rogers, I do not know but I think, in the [?]nd, he will wish the reverend father had let the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grammar School Entertainment
ON Thursday evening between 300 and 400 persons assembled at the Mechanics' Institute by invitation to witness performance given by the pupils of the Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Half-yearly Meeting of the Largs School of Arts
On Thursday evening last the 21st half-yearly meeting of the members of the above institution was held in the hall. There was a good attendance. Mr. W. A Unicomb, President, occupied the chair, and…
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