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Murray · Schools

Schools, 1889

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Humor The Schoolmaster

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 2

The teacher has no .E Z time To teach the A, B, C's; It per C V rance takes, sublime, And all his N R G's…

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The New South Wales Public School System

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 27

The Chief Inspector of Schools in New South Wales, Mr. J. C. Maynard, has written a memorandum on the report furnished by the Victorian Inspector General of Schools, Mr…

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Tragedy in a School

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 August 1889 · page 36

Particulars are to hand in London of a tragedy which occurred in Bucharest, resulting sulting in the death of three persons. On the right bank of the Dumbovitza, in the…

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A Japanese Kindergarten School. Charming Characteristics of the Little Jap

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 4 September 1889 · page 1

The most entertaining thing, says Tokio correspondents, that I have scan here was a Kindergarten school, ana for an hour the fascinating mites went through charming,…

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Farmer. Education Among Farmers. How shall Farmers Retain and Make Practical their School Learning?

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 September 1889 · page 1

No class in the community is more anxious to provide good schools than are our farmers, and none so ready to sustain them at great cost, and often at great personal…

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A Japanese Kindergarten School. Charming Characteristics of the Little Jap

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 September 1889 · page 1

The most entertaining thing, says a Tokio correspondent, that I have seen here was a Kindergarten school, and for an hour the fascinating mites went through charming,…

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Farmer. Education Among Farmers. How shall Farmers Retain and Make Practical their School Learning?

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 2

No class in the community is more anxious to provide good schools than are our farmers and none so ready to sustain them at great cost, and often at great personal…

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Farmer. Education Among Farmers. How shall Farmers Retain and Make Practical their School Learning?

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 2

No class in the community is more anxious to provide good schools than are our farmers, and none so ready to sustain them at great cost, and often at great personal…

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A School Board for Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

WHEN the Public Instruction Act was framed and passed into law, provision was made in it by Sec. 19 for the appointment of school boards, to…

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Schoolboy Blunders

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 11

A teacher, writing in Cornhill, lately gave some amusing instances of answers made in reply to examination questions. He said : There is a pleasing mixture of fact…

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Demonstrations by School Children. London, October 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 18

A number of the scholars attending the board schools in Scotland are making public demonstrations in favor of shorter lessons, the abolition of whipping, and free education…

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Turning The Tables. Fats of the Schoolmaster-Whipping Committee

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 1

"The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang oft aglee."—BURNS. Messrs. Tarbox, Tanner and Twiggs were very promising young men between the ages…

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The School Children’s Strike. London, October 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 18

The children attending a dozen board and other schools in London have left school. They demand that the school hours shall be shorter, that home lessons shell be abolished,…

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Turning The Tables. Fate of the Schoolmaster-Whipping Committee

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 3

"The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang oft aglee."—BURNS. Messrs. Taxbox, Tanner and Twoggs were very promising young men between the ages…

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Convent School Entertainment

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 13 November 1889 · page 2

A concert and dramatic entertainment was given on Monday evening by the pupils attending St Joseph's School, assisted by several adults, in the Convent school room…

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Turning The Tables. Fate of the Schoolmaster-Whipping Committee

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 November 1889 · page 1

"The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang oft agles."--BURNS. Messrs. Tarbox, Tannor and Twiggs were very promising young men between the ages…

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Laying Foundation Stone of Church of England Sunday School

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 4

On Friday afternoon (8th instant) the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Sunday School bow in course of erecting, in connection with St. Paul’s Church. Deniliquin was performed by his…

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The Schoolboys’ Strike in England and Scotland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 26

By the arrival of the R.M.S. Carthage the following particulars have been received :— Since the termination of the deek strikes there have been numerous imitations, and the latest…

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Public School Teachers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1889 · page 25

The Minister of Public Instruction is, we learn, making provision for the status of teachers entering into the service of the Department to be improved. Pupil teachers…

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St. Kilda Grammar School "Marlton," Wellington-street, St. Kilda

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 December 1889 · page 4

Head Master—E. L. Backhouse, M.A., L.L.B., Exhibitioner and Honorian in Classics, French, English, Logic, History, and Laws (Barrister at Law.) Assisted by…

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