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AN exhibition of drawing, writing, and wool-ork, executed by the teachers and patills of the primary schools ender the Council of Education, was opened by his Excellency the Governor, companied by Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MONTHLY JOURNAL, with this title, has just been started at Yass. It is a pamphlet of 32 pages. The first number, for June, supplies information concerning the recent progress and present state of education in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This is the title of a new literary venture, published by Mr. J. J. Brown of Yass. Its object is the dissemination of reliable intelligence on every subject connected with the school…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notwithstanding the frequency with which we Catholics have had to bewail the political weakness of the Church of England upon the Education question, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The third prize in the late Handicap Tournament has been divided between Messrs. Ryan and Lea. A further tournament is now being organised, also on the handicap principle, for those members who have never won…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE following petition has been forwarded to us for publicatin, by Mr. G. H. Hunt, Omega Retreat, Gerringong, at the request of the public school teachers of the Illawarra district:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following petition has been forwarded to us for publication, by Mr. Gr. H. Hunt, Omega Retreat, Gerringong, at the request of the public school teachers of the Illawarra district:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE foundation stone of a new Congregational schoolroom at the corner of Devonshire and Riley streets was laid, on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large number of persons. The proceedings were initiated by the Rev. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Having read the petition from the teachers of the Illwarra district, for the abolition of school fees, I would like to be informed, why teachers labour under "many disadvantages and humiliations" in collecting school fees? And…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Nautical School Ship Vernon, at present lying off the eastern side of Cockatoo Island, has of course long been a familiar object to thousands, not merely in its present posttion in the Parramatta River, but als at its former yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Huntly Police Court yesterday, a case was heard of somo interest to school teachers and others engaged in the work of instruction. A schoolmaster named E. S. Scott, of the State school, Goornong, was charged with assaulting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir—Having read the petition from the teachers of the Illawarra district, for the abolition of school fees, I would like to be informed, why teachers labour under "many disadvantages and humiliations" in collecting school fees? And…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The scholars of St. Joseph's and Select School passed their annual examinations, in their several studies after which the usual distribution of prizes took place. His Lordship Bishop…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following letter, from a lady in Sydney to her relative in Victoria, briefly describes a visit tome Industrial School, Biloela:— "Since writing to you last month, it has been my good…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →THE Nautical School Ship Vernon, at present lying off the eastern side of Cockatoo Island, has of course long been a familiar object to thousands, not merely in its present position in the Parramatta River, but als[?] at its former yet…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →SIR,—As the drawing master to the Council of Education, and as one of the committee who got up the exhibition of drawings and woolwork, I feel it incumbent on myself to offer a few remarks upon your leading article in Thursday's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some miners have pegged out a portion of Bald Hill, close to Bathurst, as gold-mining claims. Mining matters are undergoing a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE School of Arts has become necessary to the comfort and convenience of a very large portion of the people of this city, and hence any proposal to enlarge the institution's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,-The gentlemen who waited upon the Colonial Secretary in reference to the above school were members of All Saints' Church, Parramatta, and not St. John's. Had you given their names, you would have conferred a benefit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TO JAMES SMITH, Esq., President; the Honourable HENRY PARKES, the Honourable GEORGE ALLEN, the Honourable THOMAS HOLT, and WILLIAM A. DUNCAN, Esq., Members of the…
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