These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
244 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 13
This rather brought the man to his senses, and the few plain words of honest truth had a wholesome effect, and made him think twice before he attempted to answer. But when he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large number of children have competed for certificates of merit in this section, principally belonging to provincial schools. Thoir efforts are principally represented by sewing, embroidery, and drawing; but there is an agreeable and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter upon the Liverpool school case appeared in the Herald recently in reply to remarks in that paper from the rev. president of the local board…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →In my peregrinations through New South Wales and part of Queensland, I have often lamented that a country so rich in pastoral, mineral, and agricultural resources, should have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The argument for the abolition of the fees in connection with the Public schools of the colony is little understood, and by the advocates of the Public Schools League has been little dwelt upon. For general information on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY. KILMORE.—The important and interesting ceremony of opening end blessing the new convent and schools of the Sisters of Mercy, at Kilmore, was performed, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GLANCE at but one sign of the times—the eagerness with which any real master of science—a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Proctor—is listened to whenever, forsaking the study or the laboratory, he comes before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE report of the superintendent, N.S.S. Vernon, to the Principal Under Secretary, contains the following paragraphs:- For several months past the Rev. George Sheppard,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When she was as gay as a linnet, And I was as fresh as a lark, Never a day, but some minute We met betwixt dawning and dark…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When she was as gay as a linnet, And I was as fresh as a lark, Never a day, but some minute We met betwixt dawning and dark…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Prizes for specimens of sowing were given to the Grafton, Ryde, and Penrith Public Schools, respectively; and a prize has also been awarded to the Deaf and Dumb Institution for various articles in which much clever workmanship is…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THE ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the boys' Catholic school in Orange took place as previously announced on Sunday, the 6th May. The Right Rev. Dr. Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE report of the superintendent, N.S.S. Vernon, to the Principal Under Secretary, contains the following paragraphs:— For several months past the Rev. George Sheppard,…
Continued on Trove, page 599 →WHEN she was as gay as a linnet, And I was ns fresh as a lark, Never a day but some minute We met betwixt dawning and dark…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERHAPS few pe sons feel so much out of place, so thoroughly superfluous and in the way of others, in this troublesome life, as the girl—the second or third daughter, let us say—who has "finished her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday last the foundation—stone of the new Pnblic school at St. Mary's, So[?] Creek, was laid by the Hon. J. Robertson. Notwithstanding a heavy fall of rain in the early part of theo day, a large number of the inhabitants of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was commenced at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, on Monday, concerning the death of a boy named James West, aged 6 years, whose parents alleged that he had been fatally injured by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—At a moment when the people are about to be called on to consider a proposed reform in public education, it is lamentable to find such men as the Hon. John Robertson misleading them by a perversion of the most ordinary facts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On inquiry at the office of the Council of Education, today, we learned that the tenders for the erection of a new public school at the Paterson were under consideration, and that the matter would,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday there was a meeting of school teachers, under the Council of Education, in St. James' Schoolroom. The object of the meeting was to consider a proposition from the Victorian Institute,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →