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A NUMEROUS and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Balmain was held on Friday evening, in the hall of the institution, to take into consideration the advantages and claims of the Society. E. W. Cameron, Esq., in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of the North Shore favourable to the establishmeat of a Mechanics' Institute was held yesterday evening, in the schoolrooms adjoining the Anglican Church, at St. Leonard's. The schoolroom…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the friends of this Sunday School was held last evening, in the building used for the above purpose, No. 245, Kent-street. John Campbell, Esq., M.L.A., occupied the chair, and having congratulated the teachers on the success they had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST night, a public meeting was held in the school-room adjoining the English Church, at the North Shore, for the purpose of initiating measures for the establishment of a Mechanics' Institute. The meeting was rather numerously attended. Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE interesting ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone of the Grammar and Primary Schools took place yesterday (Monday), after service in the Cathedral. The Lord Bishop of Newcastle, accompanied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The object which I had in view in my former communication was to bring to light the anonymous individual who lately favoured the public (through the columns of your daily contemporary) with s great flourish of trumpeta with a new scheme,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case, which seemed to have excited the chief amount of interest and excitement at the assizes, was called on. The court was much crowded. Patrick Gordon, Thomas Morris, Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday evening a lecture was delivered by the Rev. W. Scott, at the School of Arts, Pitt-street, on the Weights and Measures of the Solar System. About seventy or eighty persons were present, including a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, in Parliament assembled. The petition of the undersigned teachers of public schools in the said colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Now that the Public Education Bill is no more, the schools, we presume, throughout the colony, both National and Denominational, will hear the same relation to one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOWARDS the end of last year the Committee of Council on Education appointed Captain Ryders commissioner for the purpose of inspecting the Navigation Schools under the Department of Science and Art, with the view…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—So much has lately been said in reference to Education by the leading men of all denominations in out city, that one would almost think the subject had been exhausted. But the object especially of this letter is to endeavour to in[?]tigate the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Prussian Agricultural establishments, as we learn from an intelligent correspondent of the Country Gentleman, are both public and private. There are four public Agricultural Academies to instruct young farme [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following letter, which we copy from the Freemans Journal of yesterday, may throw some faint light on the ambiguity of the recently published correspondence in reference to the proposal of the Government to reinstate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This week there has come to light, through a letter from the Rev. Mr. Marner, one of the grossest and most flagrant instances of soul traffic that it has ever fallen to our lot to record. Dingle, Doon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OWING to the late period in the session of the Parliament of 1858, when the Appropriation Act for that year was passed, the Board were unable, prior to the 31st of December last, to take full advantage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN.—Another Education Bill, vague and indefinite as that which caused the overthrow of Mr. Cowper and his colleagues, is before the public. Amongst its caluses we vainty seek for one recognising your claim to be something…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY afternoon, pursuant to notice published by the committee, the foundation stone of the new building of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Artswas, with the customary formalities, laid, in front of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE are few institutions more usuful in their character, and consequently more popular than the Sydney School of Arts, and it is therefore not surpr[?]sing t[?]at a large concourse of persons were present at the ceremony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—What is the object of State Education? Is it to educate the children of the rich—those who can well afford to pay? If so, the system at present in operation will answer as well as any that can be devised. Indeed, if…
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