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171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9
A NUMEROUSLY attended meeting of teachers under the Council of Education (convened bv advertisement) was held at the Model Public School, Fort-street, on Saturday morning last—Mr. Bridges in the chair. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VERITABLE centenarian has just died in the island of Arran. Ebenezer Baillie, as he was named, was born in the parish of Dalrymple, Ayrshire, in the year 1767, and was a schoolfellow of the poet Burns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A NUMEROUSLY attended meeting of teachers under the Council of Education (convened by advertisement) was held at the Model Public School, fort-street, on Saturday morning last— Mr. Bridges in the chair. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Mr. Cumming's theory of equal rights, the citizens of Sydney ought to have all three systems of water supply at command, and so they might definitely decide which "aqua" was the "pura." This inestimable beverage bids fair entirely to supersede the use of Epsom,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THERE are perhaps not many words in the vituperative category of the English tongue more comprehensive, and yet, few more misapplied than pedant. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE late meeting of the Female Refuge, with all the harrowing facts and incidents which are connected with such an institution, as well as the fearful revelations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PUBLIC MEETING in aid of the Sydney Sagged Schools was held last evening in the Temperance Hall. The chair was taken by E. W. Cameron, Esq. On the platform were the Lord Bishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE tenth annnal meeting of the friends and supporters of the Sydney Ragged Schools was held on Monday evening, in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. The following gentlemen occupied seats on the platform:—The Bishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE tenth annual meeting of the friends and supporters of the Sydney Ragged Schools was held on Monday evening, in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. The following gentlemen occupied seats on the platform:— The Bishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SIR,—The residents of Stanley-street opposite the Grammar School have been considerably annoyed during the last few days by the bellicose fooling existing between some of the pupils of that establishment and the Public school in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your issue of to-day "Citizen" calls the attention of the police to some street-fighting between boys of the Grammar School and of one of the Public schools. The disturbance, of which your correspondent complains, took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This society, established in order to foster among our young men a taste for manly accomplishments, has been inaugurated under very auspicious circumstances. The society has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOT long since, being the happy recipient of that "bless[?]ng in disguise—a new dress—the feminine portion of our household was doomed to the trying ordeal essential to the making thereof; and it was that trial which has led…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE following Report for 1869, and half-year of 1870, was laid on the table of the Legislative Council. The Superintendent to the Principal Under Secretary. N.S.S. Vernon, 29th July, 1870…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. PUNCH reports with much pleasure the formation of a School of Arms in Sydney. The society, which numbers some 80 or 100 members, holds its meetings in a large room well lighted and ventilated, attached to Wangenheim's Café de Paris. Captain Macdonald…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE following Report for 1869, and half-year of 1870, was laid on the table of the Legislative Council. The Superintendent to the Principal Under Secretary. N.S.S. Vernon, 29th July, 1870…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →DEAR SIR,-- In reply to your note of the 13th instant, requesting me to subscribe towards the erection of a Primitive methodist Chapel in this town, I regret to say that it is out of my power…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Chess Tournament, the championship has, since our last report, passed in immediate succession through the hands of Messrs. Lea, Braun, Harpur, Byan, Cooke, Morrison, and Heydon, and is now held…
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