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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1867

8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Public Schools Act

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1867 · page 3

THE Public Schools Act of 1866, as finally passed by both Houses of the Legislature, and assented to by the Governor in the name of her Majesty the Queen, will be found in…

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Public Schools

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1867 · page 2

THE following address has been forwarded by the Council of Education to the various teachers connected with the Public Schools:— Council of Education Office,…

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Cricket. Denominational School, Canberra v. Public School, Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1867 · page 2

ELEVEN youths from each of the above schools, assembled on the cricket ground, Queanbeyan, on Easter Monday, and settled their differences with the "willow and ball." From the appended score…

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Cricket. Queanbeyan Public School v. Canberra Denominational School

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1867 · page 2

THE return match between the above schools was contested on Friday, May 24th, at Canberra, ending in a victory for the Public School boys, who won easily with nine wickets to spare. The players were…

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Queanbeyan Public School. Entertainment at the Odd Fellows' Hall

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1867 · page 2

A MUSICAL and literary entertainment was given by lady and gentlemen amateurs on Tuesday evening at the above hall, in aid of Public School Building Fund…

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Going to School

Braidwood Independent · Wednesday 25 September 1867 · page 2

HE helped her over the meadow brook, While her feet she timidly set (Twin lilies they were!) on the mossy stone With the cooling ripples wet…

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Murder of the Rev T. Baker and Seven Native Teachers at Fiji

Braidwood Independent · Saturday 28 September 1867 · page 5

BY the Magellan Cloud, which arrived from the Islands yesterday, the melancholy intelligence was received of the murder of one of the Wesleyan missionaries, the Rev. Mr. Baker, together with seven…

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Local and District News. Queanbeyan Public School

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 December 1867 · page 2

HE annual examination of the children attending the public school here was conducted last Friday, as reported in our last, Dr Morton conducting the examination. On the next day, Saturday, the children,…

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