Council Paper. Education. —Denominational School Board Report, for the Year 1854
Empire · Saturday 4 August 1855 · page 3
Tho Denominational School Board, in submitting their annual report for tho year 18th, have again to express their concern that, owing to tho limited amount of funds at their command, they have been unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APPENDIX 1. The Chairman of tho Denominational School Board, to the Colonial Secretary, Sydney, Denominational School Board Office, Sydney, 21st June, 1854
Empire · Saturday 4 August 1855 · page 3
SIR—I have tho honour to enclose the report of the Denominational School Board, for the year ending Decembor 31st, 1853, to which, on behalf of tho boord, I have respectfully to invite his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →School of Arts.—the Designs for the New Building
Empire · Saturday 11 August 1855 · page 3
Our renders may remember that some two months ago, we called attention to the advertisement of the Committee of this Institution inviting architects to send in designs for a now building to be erected on the site…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 August 1855 · page 8
A RECENT number of the Somersetshire Chronicle contains the report of an important county meeting, at which the Murquis of Westminster presided. The object was to establish a reformatory-school, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →School of Arts' Designs. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 August 1855 · page 2
SIR,—Allow me to ask, through the medium of your liberal journal, why the Committee—the judges of the designs for the School of Arts—while giving the measurement, &c., and the requirements to be provided…
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Empire · Thursday 16 August 1855 · page 2
A meeting of the members of the New South Wales Teachers' Association was held at the Presbyterian School Room, Pitt-street, on the 7th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 August 1855 · page 5
THE friends ot education will be glad to learn that the National School at Pennant Hills, which is conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Rutter, was visited on Thursday, 9th instant, by two members of the Local Board, viz., the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seaham National School. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Wednesday 22 August 1855 · page 3
Sir.—Observing in your paper of the 9th july some remarks relating to the late teachers of the National School at Seaham, I trust you will have the goodness to insert in your paper the following reply thereto…
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Empire · Wednesday 29 August 1855 · page 5
The subjoined extract is taken from Baxter's "American and the Americans," a work of some merit recently issued from the English press:- I now purpose giving a brief outline of that rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Primary Schools. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Tuesday 11 September 1855 · page 2
SIR—I am happy to find that Education, so long neglected, has at last attracted some attention, and that it is not now necessary to have recourse to the expedient once recommended by a friend, in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Photography. Bring Some Extracts From a Lecture Delivered by John Rae, Esq., at the Mechanics' School or ARTS
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 September 1855 · page 8
THE novel and beautiful science above indicated form [?] the subject of a very interesting lecture at this institution on Tuesday evening. Mr. Rae's powers as a lecturer were so well known that we were not at all…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 September 1855 · page 2
THE following is the substance of Mr. Rae's second Lecture on Photography, Daguerreotype, Talbotype, &c., delivered at this institution on the 18th instant. PHOTOGRAPHY.—ITS PRACTICE…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 September 1855 · page 2
THE following is the substance of Mr. Rae's second Lecture on Photography, Daguerreotype, Talbotype, &c., delivered at this Institution on the 18th instant. (Concluded.)…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 22 September 1855 · page 10
Address delivered by W. Flower to the pupils inculcating the utility of elementary drawing: -- " At the examination of this school, a year ago, I made a few remarks to the parents on the advantages which would…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The School for Embezzlement. (From Punch.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 September 1855 · page 2
WE have frequently called serious attention to the impolicy, as well as the cruelty of keeping clerks at starvation salaries, and we have argued more than once that when you announce your desire to employ a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Primary Schools. No. II. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Friday 28 September 1855 · page 5
SIR—As the education question is still under the consideration of the Legislative Council, and as you have kindly opened your columns to the discussion of this all-important subject, I beg to submit again a few more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lecture by the Rev. B. Quaife. at the School of Arts, Sydney, Tuesday Evening, October 9, 1855
Empire · Tuesday 16 October 1855 · page 2
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—The day of the funeral of Sir Thomas Mitchell, so long the highly respected President of this Institution, is not one on which a lecturer, however incidentally occupying his post in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Statistics of New South Wales. No. IX.—SCHOOLS
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 October 1855 · page 4
THE official book of statistics now before us carries the return of schools back to the year 1845; but for the sake of tracing the progress made in each of the last two half decennaries,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 October 1855 · page 5
DR[?] BERNCASTLE, author of "Travels in India and Caina," gave a very interesting lecture, on Tuesday last, at this institution, on the "Rise and Fall of the Mahratta Empire," his personal experience of the…
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Empire · Friday 19 October 1855 · page 5
SIR—If the arrangements made for the support of schools be educational, tending to stamp the national character, the system to be ultimately adopted should be based entirely on principles not only Christian but such…
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