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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1888

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Stockton Primitive Methodist Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 5

The celebration of the Stockton Primitive Methodist Sunday School New Year picnic came off yesterday at Tomago. The steamer Ethel left Stockton shortly before 9 o'clock…

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Wickham P.M. Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 5

The annual picnic of the children of the Wickham Primitive Methodist Sunday School was held in Messrs. Chippendall and Fleming's paddock at Tighe's Hill, which…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1888 · page 7

MINUTES of general committee meeting held on Friday, January 6th, 1888. Present: Messrs. Brown (in the chair), Logan, Ash, Creer,…

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Terrible Weather in America.—school Children Frozen to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 5

A terrific blizzard was experienced in North America, during which the snow falling was driven with such frightful velocity before the gale that…

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St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 5

The anniversary of the above school was celebrated yesterday by an excursion to and picnic at Tomago. Shortly after 9 a.m. the teachers and scholars assembled in the…

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Newcastle School of Arts Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1888 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the members of the Newcastle School of Arts was held last night in the lecture Hall. There was a large attendance, and the president, Mr. H. J…

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Anvil Creek. School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 7

A meeting of members of the above was held in the hall on the 20th ult., to receive annual report and elect officers, Mr. H. M'Kinnon in the chair,…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 February 1888 · page 5

MINUTES Of general committee meeting hold on Friday, February 3rd, 1888. Present: Messrs. Brown (in the chair), Logan, Collier, Graham,…

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Sydney-street Baptist Sabbath School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 5

The anniversary of the Sydney-street Baptist Sabbath-school was commemorated last night by a public meeting. There was a very fair attendance, taking into consideration…

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Correspondence Models for Newcastle School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1888 · page 3

SIR,—I perceive that by a paragraph in the Herald and Advocate, as well as in the abstract of report of proceedings of the Technical Board which…

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Newcastle Superior Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1888 · page 6

MR. CHARLES J. W. FRIEND, who for the past three and a half years has been head master of the Newcastle Superior Public School, has received…

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Wickham School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1888 · page 3

THE annual meeting of the above was held in the reading-room of the institute, on Thursday night. The attendance was not large, and apologies were sent from Messrs. Clough…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1888 · page 7

ON Monday next the well-debated question of the opening of the reading room of the local School of Arts on Sundays, will again comes before a…

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The Sunday Opening of the School of Arts Controversy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting of the subscribers of the Newcastle School of Arts was held in the lecture hall of the institution, last night, under the presidency of Mr. H.J. Brown,…

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Correspondence the School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1888 · page 7

SIR,—The "Visitor" who strolled into the School of Arts last night is evidently a veritable pessimist, who is incapable of enjoying a blessing…

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Newcastle School of Arts Literary and Debating Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 4

A SPECIAL public meeting of the School of Arts Literary and Debating Society was held last night. Mr. William Donnelly in the chair. The minutes of last meeting was read…

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Attempted Burglary at Wickham Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 5

ON Tuesday night, about a quarter past 11, Constable Gee received information that lights were seen inside the girls' school, and, from the fitful way the lights seemed to move,…

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Stockton School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 5

A MEETING of the members for the newly inaugurated School of Arts at Stockton was held in the rooms of the institution (Mr. Lowe's rooms), last night. Mr. R. Thomas2…

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The Sydney School of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 3

THE Government have decided, says the S.M. Herald, in view of the extensive mining discoveries throughout the colony, to take immediate steps towards the erection of…

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The Proposed School of Mines at Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

WE have before referred to the question of the establishment in the metropolis of a School of Mines, and the subject is one which so vitally…

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