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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1891

241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 13

Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 5

MEMBERS of the Newcastle School of Arts are notified by advertisement in this issue that all books, etc., must be returned for stock-taking on or before Monday next. To…

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District News. Hamilton. School Teachers' Residence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 5

The residence at the public school is completed, and the schoolmaster, Mr. J. J. Callaghan, is expecting orders any day to take possession. The work has been carried…

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Select Poetry. the Schoolmaster's Daughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 9

I KNEW a school-house, in days gone by, That stood by a country road; The arching elm trees shadowed it o'er, And near by a brooklet flowed;…

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The Wortley School Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Later particulars of the disaster at Wortley, Yorkshire, state that four children have succumbed to the injuries caused by the fire, which ignited their dresses…

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School of Arts Library

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1891 · page 5

AT the School of Arts the officials are at present very busily engaged in stock-taking and revising the library catalogues. For the purpose of facilitating this work, members…

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Newcastle School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1891 · page 6

Sir,—May a "New Chum" be allowed a few lines. On my arrival in Newcastle, the first thing I did was to join the School of Arts. The evening was very pleasant, and I…

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Newcastle School of Arts Library

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 5

WE have received from the secretary (Mr. S. Rose) a rough report of the stock taking, which will be submitted to the general committee at their final meeting to-night (Friday),…

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Plattsburg. Sunday-school Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 8

Anniversary services of the Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school, to be held to-morrow (Sunday), should have been held last November; but on account of the great…

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Plattsburg P. M. Sunday School Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 7

ON SUNDAY last our Primitive Methodist friends held their Children's Sabbath School anniversary, which was most successful. The children…

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District News. Merewether. New Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 6

A committee was formed during the month of September, 1888, for the purpose of endeavouring of getting a new school erected at the western…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday. Schoolboys Made Happy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 5

Owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever, the public schools vacation has been extended for a fortnight. PASSING A WRECK…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 7

THE following report and balance-sheet for 1890 will be presented to the members on Thursday, the 29th instant:—"Report of the general committee of the…

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Stockton. School of Arts Word Competition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 5

Last Tuesday night the sub-committee appointed to work out the scheme to raise funds for the institution, by means of one of the above-named ventures, met in the library…

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The School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1891 · page 6

THE annual report of the committee of the Newcastle School of Arts, which has just been printed, and will be brought up for adoption at the meeting on the 29th inst, is a…

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Correspondence Electric Light in the School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 5

SIR,—I have just been enjoying a quiet hour reading the periodicals at the School of Arts, but the heat from the gaslight in the room is so intense that reading shore is almost…

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District News. Stockton. School of Arts Parliamentary Debating Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 7

AFTER a refreshing midsummer recess of some weeks, this little society got into harness again on Wednesday night. There was a very fair muster…

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R.C. Schools at Burwood and Adamstown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 3

An excursion in aid of the R.C. schools at Burwood and Adamstown will also be held at Tomago. The comfortable steamers Ethel, Emu, and Adeline will leave the…

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Merewether New School. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 3

Sir,—In your issue of Tuesday last, January 20th, a letter appeared, the writer signing himself "Fair Play." He seems to find fault at the action of…

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St. Andrew's Sabbath-School Excursion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

The steamer Prince Alfred, with the children and friends, left the wharf at 10 o'clock, the vessel's carrying capacity being taxed to the utmost. After calling at…

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Seamen's Mission Sunday-School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

The St. Thomas' Seamen's Mission Sunday school picnic was held at Tomago, and attracted a large number of visitors. The steamer Rose left Newcastle at 9 and 11 a.m.,…

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