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193 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 10
SELDOM is it our lot to read arguments at once so able and be fallacious as those advanced against State support to Ragged Schools. They read like demon-strations, and are only sophisms. These schools were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Among the "Crown Lands' Sales" of which notice is given in last Saturday's Herald, I find an intimation that forty-two lots in the parish of Botany are to be offered for sale on Wednesday, the 11th instant. To the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST evening, a public meeting, convened by the Warden of the Municipality, was held in the School of Arts, for the purpose of taking steps to secure the [?] tion of a National School, at Balmain. The chair [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—By this morning's issue of your journal, I perceive, in a communication to you, that "the secretary (of the above association) read the minutes of the last meeting, which were unanimously confirmed; after which Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN accordance with the terms of a requisition from certain 'ratepayers of Balmain to the chairman of that municipality a very numerously attended and highly influential public meeting was held on Tuesday bight, in the School of Arts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As it is important that those at least who have an interest in the Church and School Estates should know the position assumed by the Government in offering for sale certain portions of the lands held by the Crown as their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Many of your readers who are members of this institution may have observed that a controversy has for some time past been going on among the members, with reference to the Debating or Mutual Instruction Class…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was convened last evening, in the lecture hall of that institution, to take into consideration the subject mentioned in a memorial addressed to the general committee,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—It must be refreshing to the friends of National education in this colony, and especially to the Board, to find that Balmain can produce two reverend gentlemen to advocate its claims. But it should be borne in mind…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—It is with regret that I perceivs by your issue of Tuesday last that Mr. Cowper is determined on disappointing if he can, a [?] number of the colonists by adding a new clause in the Robertson land bill, which, if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—About four months since, you very suddenly, and without notice, closed the doors of the above Institution, which naturally caused a deal of speculation in the town; and the general rumour was,—a split in the Committee, while some hinted a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I was rather amused at the letter of " A.T.," against the National system of education. As he has got [?]eroaoam, Dan, Bethel, Israel, and Julian the [?] all into two lines, it ought to be no joke to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A case has just occurred in Dublin which, horrible in itself, can hardly fail at the present crisis to produce important results. "The Royal Hibernian Military School" is one of those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of this institution was held, yesterday evening, in the reading-room of the institution (the hall being occupied with articles for the Exhibiuon of 1862) for the purpose of reconsidering a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST evening a general meeting of the members of this imsitition was held in the reading-room, for the purpose of re-considering a resolution passed at a general meeting held on the 16th September last. The Rev. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following is the bill brought in by Dr. Wilson, to remove any doubts that may exist as to the Church and School Lands being waste lands of the Grown, and which stands for second reading on Friday next:-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE eighth class of Rifle Volunteers, at the Hythe School of Musketry, brought their target practice to a close on Saturday last; and on Monday and Tuesday finished their course with file and volley firing,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LAST evening a special general meeting of the members of this institution was held in the Reading-room, for the purpose of considering the propriety of expending the sum of £2000, in enlarging the hall, and making other…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Permit me to correct a slight error in your report of the proceedings at the special general meeting of members of this, institution yesterday. The chair was occupied on the [?]n by the Honorable G. K Holden,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE annual meeting of the School of Arts, which in the ordinary course of affairs would have taken place early in September, but which has been from various causes delayed, took place on Tuesday evening, in t…
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