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33 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
This annual entertainment was given as usual on New Year’s Day. The day was cool but windy, and although along the lines of traffic there were clouds of dust, the bend where the picnic was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It appears from the present state of affairs that the Wodonga School Committee have acted in a manner contrary to the wishes of the parents of the children, and in a very hostile way towards the late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Referring to a letter signed “Fair Play” in your issue of last week, permit me to say I thought the public had had enough of personalities. Indeed, recriminations and ex parte statements have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The examination of scholars for the [?] prizes at the Public School [?] month in consequence of an unusual [?] sickness prevailing about the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In your last issue a wonderful production appeared, signed “One of the Committee.” I did not intend to trouble you again on this subject, but I do not think it would be fair play to the writer, nor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I do not remember ever seeing any notice in your columns of the above institution. Those of your readers who are conversant with the working of schools of this kind and their happy results, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under the above heading the Ballarat Star describes an attempt recently initiated in Ballarat to combine scholastic with horticultural and agricultural pursuits. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under the above heading the Ballarat describes an attempt recently initiated in Ballarat to combine scholastic with horticultural and agricultural pursuits. Our contemporary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE council of education some months since sent to all the teachers in its service a circular requiring a statement of their age, length of service, and some other particulars,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âA public meeting was held at Mackayâs hotel last evening, convened specially, I think, by the Inspector in order to obtain the views of the parents of the children attending the schools. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MIXED SC[?]OOLS’—The letter denounces the evil of these schools, in which religious teaching and discipline are withdrawn from the guidance of the Church, as a gross invasion of a common liberty of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The remarks made by the Rev. D. E Jones at the Church of England Synod for the Diocese of Goulburn, demand from me some animadversions. He said that “the way in which the Public Schools’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—As the letter signed “Henry Baker,” which appeared in your last issue, is calculated to mislead, I must ask for the insertion of a few lines, setting forth my reasons for bringing forward the resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the recent sitting of the Church of England Synod for the diocese of Goulburn, a discussion of some importance took place as to whether lay or itinerant preachers ought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I was unfortunately unable to attend in my place during the recent Session of the Synod of the Diocese of Goulburn, or I should certainly have supported the Rev,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—In reply to the letter which appeared in your issue of the 5th instant, from the Rev. J. M. Ware, in which he charges the Wesleyan portion of the community at Bungowannah with the want of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As I am accused by several whom I respect of siding and assisting Mr Brown in tho action be has taken against the Belvoir School Committee, I beg to stale publicly that I have not done so, either…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I regret that I must say of Mr. Baker’s second letter as of his first that it is calculated to mislead. The subject of my resolutions, which have called forth these letters, is the evasion of the spirit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As considerable misapprehension exists on the above subject, the council of education appears to wish clearly to set before the public and the school boards tho rights of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have been requested to contradict a misstatement which appeared [?] in the Border Post, relative to the Belvoir Common School ; will you therefore have the goodness to publish the following…
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