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Schools, 1884

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School of Arts

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1884 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the above institution was held in the School of Arts on Tuesday evening, the 22nd instant. About twenty-five members were present, and…

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The Nowra Public School

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1884 · page 2

IN August last year, Mr. Moss (the Mayor of Nowra) carried the following resolution in the Nowra Council:—"That application be made to the Minister for Public Instruction for the erection of a…

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School of Arts

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1884 · page 2

Committee's report for year ending 22nd January, 1884. meetings.—Eighteen committee meetings were held, of which Mr. Walker…

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Panbula School of Arts

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1884 · page 2

THE building lately erected for a School of Arts, at Panbula, was formally handed over to the committee by the contractor, Mr. N. L. Bouquet, on the 20th of…

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Original Correspondence. [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by correspondents.] Henry Clarke, M.L.A., on Free Railway Passes to School Children. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 2

SIR,—Will you allow me a small space in an early issue of your paper to direct the attention of this large and important constituency to a vote recently given by…

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The School-Mistress in Shantyville

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 20 March 1884 · page 1

The astonishment of the men in Shantyville when the announcement was made that a school-mistress was coming to the place would have been comic had it not been so…

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The Last in School.—

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 1

"The whining schoolboy, with, his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. "—SHAKSPERE—As You Like it. The painter most have had in his mind the eloquent lines put by Shakspere into of mouth of Jacques descriptive of the seven Ages of Man, Here is the whinng…

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A Poet at School

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 2 April 1884 · page 1

During the time that I was at school, says Sir John [?]ennie, the most remarkable scholar was the celebrated poet, Percy Byssbe Shelley, who was then about twelve or…

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Mr. Mundeila on Sunday-school's

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 4

SPEAKING at Leicester at the opening of Sunday-school Memorial Hall, Mr. Mundella said he was the first man whe in his own porson had united the two offices of vice-president of…

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How We Tried to Whip the Teacher. Told at the Old Settlers Meeting

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2

I wuz a boy o' seventeen, ungainly, dull an' tall, Ez green ez eny goslin', but I tho't I know'd it all…

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Our Public School System. Nearly £100,000 for six Schools

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 3

The Acting Minister for Public Instruction has had a very interesting return prepared at the instance of Mr. W. J. Ferguson, M.P. The latter gentleman selected…

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The High Schools. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 2

Sir,—The letter by ‘Equivalent’ opens a very important question. When the colony was at a lose to know what to do with its superfluous money it was perhaps as good…

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Dickens, the Teacher

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 May 1884 · page 1

All grimy old London Town was brightened, softened, yet mellowed and made altogether lovely, by the humidly golden atmosphere which Turner painted so well…

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Original Correspondence. [It is to be distinctly understood that we do not identify ourselves with the opinions of correspondents.] Religious Instruction In Schools. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 29 May 1884 · page 2

SIR,—Will you allow me space in the Telegraph to propose a plan for giving religious instruction to children attending the Public Schools? I believe the Roman Catholic Clergy insist…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 5 June 1884 · page 4

THE following pertinent article appeared in the Kiama Independent of the 23rd May. We are at one with the writer, and have always believed that the present Public…

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The Hall Acoustice of Our School of Aris. (To the Editor of Moruya Examiner.)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 2

DEAR SIR, —I would res[?] the [?] of the worthy President of [?] Mcchanics [?] Dr. King to the fact that the Hall of the [?] as kadly…

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Religious Instruction In Public Schools

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2

A SHORT time ago, at the instance of the Primate of the Church of England, representatives of the leading Protestant denominations in this colony met in conference to deliberate…

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At School

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 9 July 1884 · page 2

The schoolmaster cried—" Tell me, who made the world? What, none of you know, then I see." When little Bill Smith, with tears in his…

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Our School of Arts. To the Editor of the Moruya Examiner

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1884 · page 2

Sir,—[?] a fact that our institute is minus a ‘Privy’ improvements hitherto have been chiefly render the Hall and the Library of utility to the neglect of the personal…

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Inspection of the Catholic Schools

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1884 · page 2

On Wednesday the 1st inst., the Catholic Primary and Infant Schools of Moruya were for the first time visited by the Inspector for the Archdiocese of Sydney,…

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