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34 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2
SIR, -- May I take the liberty of presenting the following remarks in the columns of your valuable paper, in reference to the support and treatment of teachers of the Denominational Schools. There is a vast difference between this and the National System,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dear Madam.—If there be yet no proposition towards a conjunction with you, be pleased to accept of this interjection of my pretences, for I do pronouns ad verbum, that I desire to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE have received a letter signed by eighteen Catholics, heads of families at this place, stating that forty-five children are attending the Catholic School there, and some eight or ten going to schools where they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COLONAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 23rd August, [?]850.—The descriptions of the following portions of land, which have been granted as the sites for National Schools, are published…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR, -- In my last 1 pointed out some facts which came under my own notice, relative to the treatment received by some of the Wesleyan teachers, from their clerical lords. By communicating some additional facts of the same nature, will you allow me to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR, -- Will you have the goodness to inform me, and some more of your subscribers in this locality, if the Board of National Education, in Sydney, require that any specific distance should be between each School house, and if a certain number of pupils must…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR, -- May I take the liberty of inquiring, through the medium of your columns, if the Board of National Education allow clergymen to be Local Patrons of their schools. So far as I have been informed on the subject the board does not allow it; but when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE description of the following portion of Land, which has been granted as the site for a National School, is published for general information, in order that the parties concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR, -- Having been much gratified with the perusal of a pamphlet which has lately issued from the Brisbane Press, being a lecture on National Education, delivered at the School of Arts, Brisbane, on the 20th June last, by W. A. Duncan, Esq., and feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BEING anxious to settle one or two doubtful points respecting the Denominational System, we bethought ourselves that the requisite data might be found in the Report of the Denominational Board…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR, -- Since I last wrote to you upon Denominational Schools, a friend of mine paid me a visit the other day, and related a circumstance, which has caused no little sensation from what I can learn, touching the resignation of the West Maitland Episcopalian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR, -- Much has been written in favor as well as deprecatory of the National System of Education. My own conviction is, that no other is suited to the requirements and circumstances of the colony ; but as precedents in discussing disputed points have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR, -- I herewith send you some further information respecting Denominational Schools, as I have received no less than half a dozen letters from some of my friends in Maitland, who I find are all anxious to have the National System tried, in order to do away…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE ORATORY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. — In influence over the House of Commons as a debater, and independently of his position of late years as the most prominent statesman of his day, Sir…
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