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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1884

136 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 7

The School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1884 · page 8

THE School of Arts committee decided last night to recommend to the members the adoption of Mr. Menkens' plan for a hall, with three shops underneath, at a cost of…

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Religious Instruction in Our Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1884 · page 4

JUDGING from the remarks of various speakers at the late Anglican Synod in Sydney, it is quite evident that a battle will have to be fought at no…

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A Schoolmaster in Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1884 · page 4

QUIPOLLY, Friday.—Mr. Hilder, a school teacher at Quipolly, has been arrested for passing a valueless cheque…

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Sudden Death of a Sunday School Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1884 · page 2

PARRAMATTA, Monday.—A Sunday-school teacher, named Mr. Edgell, dropped dead in the Congregational Church here yesterday while performing…

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Socularists' Sunday School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Secularists opened their Sunday-school yesterday. The children were addressed by Mr. Thos. Walker…

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Select Poetry. the School of the Street. Written for the New York Clipper by Rdmund Lyons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1884 · page 3

MEN see them around and before them, The misery, squalor and vice Of the streets, and some calmly ignore them, Some watch them with pitying eyes…

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Newcastle Public School Cadet Corps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1884 · page 3

WE are informed that the above corps is a decided success. It now numbers fifty-five members, and the lads are going in for the movement heart and soul. All the boys…

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Wickham School of Arts' Annual Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1884 · page 3

THE pleasant annual event took place at the School of Arts, Wickham, on Wednesday evening, and was a decided success. There was a goodly attendance, and it was evident the committee had worked hard…

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Newcastle School of Arts. Special General Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 4

PURSUANT to advertisement, a special general meeting of members of the Newcastle School of Arts was held in the class-room of the institution last night. There was a large attendance. Mr. H. J. Brown…

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Religious Instruction in State Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—A public meeting was held to-night at the Masonic Hall to consider the question of religions instruction in Public Schools. The meeting was…

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The Newcastle Superior Public School Cadet Corps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 August 1884 · page 2

THE cadet corps attached to the Newcastle Superior Public School is a pronounced success, already sixty-three boys have joined, and a considerable improvement has been…

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Newcastle Superior Public School Cadet Corps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 August 1884 · page 5

CAPTAIN STRONG, commanding the Public Schoo Cadet Corps, inspected the Newcastle Superior School contingent yesterday, end was extremely pleased at the progress made by the boys under Mr,…

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The School of Arts, (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 August 1884 · page 5

SIR.—The new hall for the School of Arts is at present arranged by the committee of members to be built over shops. It is to be hoped that the surveyor will have instructions to prepare his…

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Teachers' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—A meeting of State school teachers has been held. Mr. Matthews, chairman. Mr. Conway moved —"That it is desirable to form a union."…

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Lecture at the School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1884 · page 3

MR. S. HERBERT, Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S., Instructor in Geology, Mineralogy, and Mining to the Sydney Technical College, gave the third lecture of his course last evening at the School of Arts. The…

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Newcastle Superior Public School Cadet Corps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1884 · page 3

THIS corps is progressing very favourably. The boys have had two shooting practices with blank cartridges—one on Friday week and one last Friday afternoon, between 3…

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Prosecutions Under the Public Instruction Act and R. C. SCHOOLS. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 4

SIR,—Your Raymond Terrace correspondent is under a great misapprehension on the question of prosecution of parents whose children are deficient attendants at Roman…

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Catholic Schools Annual Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1884 · page 4

THE annual picnic in connection with the Catholic Schools of Newcastle, Hamilton, and Burwood, will be held on Thursday, £25th inst., in Mr. P. Fleming's Paddock, Sandgate. This reunion is always the…

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Schools of Art and the Technological Vote

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1884 · page 2

AT the meeting of the Board of Technical Education, held at the latter end of last week, in Sydney, a letter was read from the Newcastle School of ArtT, stating that…

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Catholic Schools Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 September 1884 · page 2

THE annual picnic of the Newcastle, Burwood, and Hamilton Catholic schools was held yesterday in Mr. P. Fleming's paddock, Sandgate, and may be fairly called…

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