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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1881

121 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7

LOCAL & GENERAL. Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1881 · page 2

A GRAND concert is announced to take place to-morrow evening in the Victoria Theatre, in aid of the funds for procuring prizes for the pupils attending the Public…

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Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 4

AN entertainment was given at the Victoria Theatre, on Thursday evening last, in aid of the Prize Fund of the Newcastle Superior Public School. The theatre was…

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School Examination

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1881 · page 8

THE annual exhibition of the Misses Cooper's school, Railway-street, took place in the schoolroom on Tuesday and Wednesday last, and was highly…

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Lochinvar Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 May 1881 · page 2

ON Saturday last, the bronze medals, certificates of merit, and money prizes gained at the Sydney, International, and Maitland Exhibitions' by scholars…

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School of Arts Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1881 · page 5

WE have much gratification in drawing the attention of our readers to an advertisement in another column inviting the co-operation of the general public towards…

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Greek Brigands and Boys' Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1881 · page 2

INTO a little village near Mount Pelion Greece—the same Pelion that once was piled upon Ossa a band of twenty-five brigands entered on the 27th of last…

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Art Classes at the School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1881 · page 5

MR. W. J. PARKINSON, a well-known professor of fine art, and drawing and painting in general, who has lately undertaken the praiseworthy task of opening a…

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Baptist Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1881 · page 2

Yesterday, the teachers and scholars attending the Newcastle Baptist Sunday School celebrated their anniversary by a picnic, on Shepherd's Hill. There was a…

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Correspondence Wesleyan Church School Picnic. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1881 · page 3

SIR,—I should be glad if you would allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to inquire who are the persons or person responsible for the…

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Congregational Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 May 1881 · page 2

THE teachers and scholars of the Newcastle Sabbath School hold their annual picnic at Tomago on Queen's Birthday. The steamers Magic and Pluto left the…

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Wallsend Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Melville and Turner, M.'sL.A., with Aldermen Shaw and Abel, had an interview this morning with the…

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The Congregational Sunday School Picnic. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 8

SIR,—Kindly allow me space in your columns to contradict some most unjust remarks, in a paragraph which appears in your issue this morning, in reference to…

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Wickham School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1881 · page 2

THE committee of the above institution have decided to hold an entertainment on Friday evening next, in the premises lately used by the firm of Moyes and…

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Football. Newcastle 1St Fifteen v. Newcastle Grammar School Students (Past and Present)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 2

This match was played on the club ground on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a rather meagre attendance of the public, accountable for probably from…

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Onebygambah Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1881 · page 2

A GRAND concert, in aid of the prize fund of the above school, is announced to be held in the schoolroom, Onebygambab, on the 23rd instant. An excellent…

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Ballarat School of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1881 · page 2

WE have to acknowledge receipt of the annual report presented at the recent meeting of governors of the School of Mines, Ballarat. The ramifications of…

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A Veteran Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 2

THE Shoalhaven News records the death of Mr. Hugh M'Phee, Public school teacher at Kangaroo Valley, and for many years of the school at Tomerong, whose…

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School of Arts, Wickham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1881 · page 2

A GRAND exhibition of dissolving views, by the Seiopticon, was given by Mr. A. J. Cane, of this city, in the carriage shed of the late firm of Moyes, and Donald, at…

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Oneybpgambah Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1881 · page 5

WE are pleased to be able to state that the tickets for the above concert on Thursday, next, are being rapidly disposed of, and that the entertainment bids fair to be…

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Stockton Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1881 · page 4

OUR advertising columns announce an interesting vocal and instrumental concert which is to take place at Stockton Public School on Wednesday next, the 22nd inst…

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