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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1869

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Certified Denominational Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 May 1869 · page 2

THE Council of Education have submitted to his Excellency the Governor the following Report of Denominational Schools for 1868:- To his Excellency the Right Honerable Somerset Richard,…

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Ecclesiasticism and Public Schools Teachers

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 8

WE regret the show of Ecclesiasticism which the Church of England Synod of Goulburn has recently made, in its resolution against the Public Schools' Teachers,…

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Churchmen V Public School Teachers. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 6

SIR,--I beg respectfully to invite your attention to the attack of certain clerical members of the Goulburn Synod on the religious liberty of the Public School…

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Foreign Intelligence. Great Britain. Glasgow Catholic Industrial Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 4

An American gentleman, who is taking a , peep at some of our principal institutions, gives us the following notes of a visit to the industrial School in connection with the…

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The Goulburn Synod, the Public Schools Act, and the Methodists. (From the Goulburn Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 5

ON Tuesday evening last the Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister, delivered a lecture in the hall of the mechanics' institute, at Goulburn, on the above subject…

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Certified Denominational Schools

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 6

The Council of Education have submitted to his Excellency the Governor the following Report of Denominational Schools for 1868:— To his Excellency the Bight Honorable Somerset Richard, Earl of Belmore, member of her Majesty's Most…

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The Report of the Council of Education on Public Schools

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 6

IN our last issue we gave game portion of the Official Report on Public Schools, we now conclude our extracts:— STAFF. 33. The staff of teachers ia the Council's service at the…

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The Public Schools Report

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 10

As the education of the people is in our estimations most important matter, We hope to deal with it at some length, and to take the above report as the text for…

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The Hon. W. M. Arnold and the Public Schools Act. (From the Paterson correspondent of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 June 1869 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Paterson was held, at the Court-house, to consider what stops were to be taken in reference to the Church of England Denominational School—notice having…

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The Goulburn Synod, Public Schools Act, and Wesleyan Methodists. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1869 · page 3

SIR,—As you gave the report of the Goulburn Herald in reprint, in the Sydney Herald, of Rev. Mr. Curnow's lecture upon the Goulburn Synod, &c., may I suggest that the enclosed letter, cut from the Southern Observer, be…

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His Excellency's Visit to the Catholic Schools of Bathurst

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 2

After visiting the Public Schools His Excellency proceeded to visit the Roman Catholic Denominational Schools. His Lordship (the Bishop), with his attendant…

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The Public Schools Report. [1St Notice.]

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 8

IT was high time that some means of testing the educational status of New South Wales should be adopted, when the Government was moved to bring…

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Correspondence. the School Kaleidoscope. (Per favour of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 5

IT is amusing to see the various views which are taken of the Public School Act. One would think' each party had its own kaleidoscope, and by twisting…

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Public School at Paterson. (From the Singleton Correspondent of the Maitland Mercury)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 3

THE meeting of the members of the Church of England to decide upon the advisability of inviting the Bishop of Newcastle to alienate certain land and buildings, known as the Church of England Denominational School, in this…

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The Public Schools Report. [2Nd Notice.]

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 8

IT has always appeared to us incontrovertible, that it never could, under any supposable circumstance, be right for a Government to have upon its hands at…

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The Public Schools Report. 3Rd Notice

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 June 1869 · page 8

IF it were granted that the Public Schools were so absolutely secular, as neither to have any religious teaching at all in them, nor to afford time everyday…

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School of Arts

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 26 June 1869 · page 3

On Monday evening a dramatic and musical entertainment, given by the Saturday Half-Holiday Association, took place in the hall of the above institute. The spacious building was well filled with a fashionable and…

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Leoture on the People's Teachers

Empire · Tuesday 29 June 1869 · page 2

A lecture was delivered yesterday evening in connection with the Protestant Political Association, by John Stewart, Esq., M.L.a., on "The People's Teachers and their Toachings, There was a large audience. The…

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Preaching by Teachers of Public Schools. (From the Wagga Wagga Express.)

Empire · Wednesday 30 June 1869 · page 3

The following is the copy of a letter from the secretary of the Council of Education to Mr. Tod[?], of Kiora, in reference to the charge which had been made against that gentleman of preaching in connection…

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The Newspaper As a Teacher. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1869 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to correct an error in your notice of my lecture. I am reported to have said that I had no great faith in newspapers, which, in view of the part I have taken against the Newspaper Postal Act,…

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