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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1887

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Sunday-school Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1887 · page 5

The annual picnic of the Congregational Sunday-school children will be held at Tomago. The steamers Emu and Secret will leave the wharf at 9 and 9.30 a.m., and…

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St. Peter's Sunday-school Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1887 · page 4

The usual annual picnic of this Sunday-school was hold yesterday in the Pit paddock, which was kindly lent by the manager of the A.A. Co. At an early hour the children…

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The School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 7

THE monthly meeting of the School of Arts General Committee was held yesterday, when the following were present:—Messrs H. J. Brown (President, in the chair), W. R…

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Victorian School of Agriculture

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

Mr. Robert Pudney has been appointed principal of the School of Agriculture in Victoria…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. the Training School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

Mr. Detman is named as a probable successor to the late principal, Mr. Wright. THE BEER DUTIES…

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Our Members on Fires in Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 7

MR. CREER said if the hon. gentleman could not find a better method of retrenchment than to do away with the fires in public schools in the colder…

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Correspondence Cleaning of Public Schools and Firewood Allowance. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 7

SIR,—I am thankful you have given space to the remarks made in the Assembly by Messrs. Creer and Fleteher, re allowance for fire-wood…

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The Trials of a Schoolmistress

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 11

TEACHER (in mental arithmetic): "If there were three peaches on the table, Johnny, and your little sister should eat one of them, how many would be…

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Sydney Sunday School Jubilee Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1887 · page 7

On Saturday afternoon a grand domonstration of Sunday School scholars took place in the Agricultural' Grounds in honour of the Queen's Jubilee…

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Shakesperian Evening. School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 5

LAST night, the lecture hall of the School of Arts was crowded to the doors with a highly respectable audience, the occasion being a Shakesperian entertainment by the…

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Wickham Wesleyan Sunday. School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 5

A SOCIAL TEA was held to celebrate tie opening of an additional room to the Wickham Wesleyan Sunday-school. The tables, which were spread in the room, were…

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Mr. John Bright on Sunday School Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1887 · page 7

ON Wednesday afternoon, Mr. John Bright presided at a Sunday school conference at Rochdale, in connection with the United Centenary meetings…

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Newcastle School of Arts Literary Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 8

A MEETING of the members of the above-named society was held in the lecture hall of the School of Arts, when a large attendance was present. After…

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Judge Docker and the Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 4

THE above irrepressible administrator of justice seems destined to keep himself unpleasantly en evidence before the public of this colony. A short time…

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An Industrial School for Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1887 · page 4

FROM our report of Police Court proceedings it will be seen that four boys, none of them more than 12 or 13 years of age, were yesterday sentenced to short terms of imprisonment…

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Literary Society, School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1887 · page 4

THE School of Arts Literary Society held their usual weekly meeting last evening, a large number of members being present. After the usual formal business was…

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School of Arts Literary Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 5

THE members of the above society spent a very pleasant and agreeable evening together on Tuesday. Several, members recited, and read pieces from Shakespeare, Longfellow,…

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Wickham School of Arts Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 July 1887 · page 7

THE members of the Wickham School of Arts held their annual hall in the big hall of the institution last night, when the hall was most tastefully decorated with banners, flags, ferns…

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St. John's C. of E. Sunday-school

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 5

A VERY successful musical entertainment was given in the Sunday-schoolroom of St. John's, Darby-street, last night, when the Rev. F. D. Bode, the incumbent of the…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 August 1887 · page 6

THE General Committee of the Newcastle School of Arts met on Friday night last at the institution, Mr. H. J. Brown (president) in the chair, and…

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