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244 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 13
A public meeting of the Church of England Sunday-school teachers, and others interested in Sunday-school work, was held last evening in the Masonic Hall. Nearly every seat in the hall was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last evening the annual tea-meeting and social gathering of the teachers in the above Sunday-school, took place in the school-room. There was a tolerably targe attendance, especially of ladies, and after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Mr. Wilkins, secretary to the Council of Education, has been credited with a new method of arithmetic by which our finances are to be so manipulated that we shall be gainers next year at this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Mr. Mills informs us in to-day's Herald that "Mr. Wilkins may be quite correct when he says that the enrolment for the first quarter is the true enrolment for the whole yoar." In other words, Mr. Wilkins may be quite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the civil sittings of the Adelaide Supreme Court, an action for £500 for breach of promise of marriage, was brought by Annie Richardson against William James Pappin. The following evidence was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MATCH at football took place on the cricket ground on Saturday last, between teams representing the King's School and Bathurst clubs. For some weeks the contest had been looked forward to with considerable interest, and…
Continued on Trove, page 84 →A special general meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held last evening in the reading-room of the institution for the purpose of considering the advisability of adopting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A preliminary meeting was held at the Council Chambers, Woollahra, on the [?] of the 27th ultimo, for the purpose of establishing a School of Arts in Woollshra. The following gentlemen were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—What is the use of having good laws made if they are inefficiently carried out? A much worse law, better carried out, would secure better results. Before trying to alter a law, would it not be better to try…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In the last report of the Council of Education, it is state? that many of the Catholic schoolhouses in the Sydney district (that is the city and suburbs) are at present ill-suited for…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →SIR,—In reply to "Student's" letter in your issue of today, I beg to make a few remarks, with your kind permission. In the first place I may observe that "Student" not only…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, at a special meeting on Monday last, approved of plans submitted for the alteration and enlargement of the building,…
Continued on Trove, page 145 →1. A hollow cylindrical iron roller is 20 inches in diameter, and 4½ feet in length; the thickness of the iron is 1½ inch. How many cubic feet of iron in the roller?…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →SIR,—I am glad your correspondent " A Native " has called public attention in your last issue to the imperfections of some of the Catholic schoolhouses in the city and suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"A Native" in the Freeman exposes the decay of what he calls Catholic schools, thus :-- "In the last report of the Council of Education, it is stated that many of the Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN Industrial and Art Exhidition in connection with the William-street Sunday School was opened yesterday evening in the schoolroom beneatl the cha[?] and was very largedy attended. This exhibition, the first of its ki[?] in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The Victorian Government have deputed Professor Pearson to inquire into the state and proficiency of the entire educational department of that colony; and I cannot help thinking that it would be most advisable to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Daily News correspondent at Bucharest reports that there has been a wholesale butchery of Christians south of the Balkans by the Turkish troops, who were instigated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night the annual subscription ball in aid of the School of Industry, was held in the Guild Hall, Castlereagh-street South, and, as usual, was largely attended, and passed off with great eclat, there being…
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