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144 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 8
We see that Mr C. Stewart the eminent tenor, late o the Christy's Minstrels, has announced a most attractive Grand Evening Concert at the above Hall ou Monday evening next, on which occasion he has secured the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening Mr. Stewart gave a grand concert at the School of Arts in which he was assisted by the talents of Madame Lucy Escott, Madame Sarah Flower, Mr. H. Squires, Mr. J. E…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE annual meetinf of the friends and supporters of Ragged Schools was held last night, in the School of Arts. About a hundred persons were present. His Excellency the Governor presided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE anniversary of the Ragged Schools of Sydney was held last evening, in the [?]all of the School of Arts. His Excellency Sir John Young took the chair on the occasion. There were present on the plattorm, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE annual meeting of the friends and supporters of Ragged Schools was held on Monday. In the School of Arts. About a hundred persons were present. His Excellency the Governor presided…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We little expected when we made the observations which appeared in our leading columns of last week, on the failure of the Mount St. Bernard Reformatory School, that we should be bo soon called upon, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The Sydney Grammar School has cost the public forty-four thousand pounds since it was established in 1854. What service has been rendered to the public, or to any considerable section of it, for this large sun, no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR.—There is more than one reason why so few people send their boys in the Grammar School. In the first place the aspect of the institution is against it. Those who are aware of its enormous resou[?]ces expect to find…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Many years ago a triangular piece of ground, eight or more acres in extent, near Redfern, was duly constituted by Government a reserve for church and school purposes. On one side it is bounded by Chisholm's Grant, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF the aim of the Commissioners who were appointed to report on the revenues and management of the public schools was to overawe their critics by the weight and bulk of their report,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Although the Grammar School boys get but little English, they get a good deal of L[?]tin, and some Greek. More they would get of both if they would stay longer at school; and, without staying longer, they mi[?]ht get…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE proposal of a Government school, in which the art and science of naval architecture may be taught, is finding favour in the principal seaports. Private ship-building is greatly on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Despite of the numerous letters that have, from time to time, appeared in the papers about the Sydney Grammer School, I have always hitherto kept silence, deeming such a course most suitable to my position as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WHAT two monosyllabic French numeral terms represent a not uncommon species of lone female? Huit, deux. Do you see it, reader?--if not, we do…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE number of School Districts in the State reported in 1863 waa 11,731; in 1862 the number was 11,763. There are ll 753 sohool-houses, of which 216 are of logs, 9969 framed, 995 brick, 573 of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I quite agree with your intelligent and well informed correspondent, "[?]" in reg-[?]ing the Sydney Grammar School as an egregious failure. As an educational institution, that costly establishment has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Wolverhampton County Court a few days ago, before Mr. Skinner, the judge, Mr. Carter, beerhouse-keeper in Charles-street in that town, was sued by the Misses Green, Schoolmistresses, of Clarendon-street, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I have shown in my former letter that it was not the intention and design of the founders of the Sydney Grammar School to render that institution a mere fe[?]der for the Sydney University. On the contrary, it was their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I have read with great interest the letters publiched in your journal under the signs are "lots"; and with your permission I will now state my own opinion of the matter. I have been at this schoo five years. I was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—As chairman of the meeting of the School of Arts committee at which the letter of the Orphsonist Society's tresurer was ress, I beg to inform all whom it may concern, that the committee are in no way responeible…
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