Teachers' Salaries in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Monday.—It is reported that the Minister for Education intends immediately to reduce the salaries of all the teachers who are now in receipt of £350 per annum and over. The step…
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Public School Sussex-street
The half-yearly distribution of prizes in the boys' school, at Sussex-street, took place on the afternoon of Friday, the 21st instant. Among the visitors present were W. Wilkins, [?]., secretary of the…
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Notice is hereby given that pupils attending schools returning home for the holidays will be allowed Excursion Tickets at quarter fares, available for return for one month, an production to the Stationmaster of certificates from the…
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IPSWICH, Friday.—The master of a state school at Milora was brought up at the police court today on a charge of having assaulted one of his scholars by beating him unmercifully. The…
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The half-yearly meeting of the Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association was held at Fort-street Model Public School on Monday last, 24th instant. On account of the inclemency of the weather the number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Football Wallaroo V. King's School
THESE clubs met for the second time this season on Saturday last at Parramatta, and the result was a victory for the Wallaroo, by a goal and a try to their opponents' nothing. The teams were, Wallaroos: E. P. Simpson and R. Arnold (captain), backs; P…
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About 11 o'clock, this morning, Joseph Clistopher, was admitted to the Infirmary, suffering from a fractured arm and several bruises about the body. It seems that the injured man was employed as a groom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. School of Arts v. William Owen Ward
SIR—In your last issue, the report of the annual meeting of the Cumberland Mutual Improvement Society appeared, in which, I find Mr. Richardson moved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A School of Medicine for the University
THAT part of Sir WILLIAM MANNING'S address at the University commemoration, which dealt with the question of establishing a school of medicine in that institution, has naturally evoked comments…
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Mr. Daniel Matthews is one of the few people who are said to have "blackfellow on the brain"—in other words, he devotes his life to the conversion and Christianisation of the unfortunate race whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunday Schools. (From the Daily News.)
MR. BRIGHT'S address to the Sunday-school teachers at Rochdale reminds us of the day when such schools were the only ones open to the children of the labouring classes. What they did with themselves on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Agricultural Teachers. To the Editor
SIR,—At the risk of being thougbt rude, I venture to quote an old saying, "Teach your granny to suck eggs," which seems to me to apply to many Imported writers, who because they lived or visited awhile in rural districts in the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Bible in the Schools: a Platform Difficulty. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to [?]y before yo[?] readers the result of some inquiries about the Bible in the Schools which were made during a very recent visit to England. I know that you assert that the circumstances of the mother…
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SIR,—Your thoughtful sub-leader in this day's issue should help to convince Bishop Moorhouse that his propositions for the reading of the Bible in Victorian State schools are not practicable. He will likely find that his colony after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Queen of Spain. the Princess Mercedes at School
Scribner's Magazine for April contains a number of letters written by a young lady of Boston, who was a fellow pupil of the young Queen of Spain at a French convent during the winter of 1873-4. The letters were written home, and…
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IT appears as if the senseless cry of the "Bible in the schools" were again to be raised. It recently sent itself; but it is quite possible that it will have a new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City of London School
In reply to W. H., a correspondent supplies the following particulars of the City of London School:— " John Carpenter, the founder of the City of London School, was Town Clerk of London in the reigns of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Football. Burwood V. Grammar School
These clubs met on Saturday, at Burwood, and the result was a very closely-contested game. The ladies of Burwood turned out in great force to see the match, and Mr. Dawson's paddock presented quite a lively…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →School Fees. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The report of the Council of Education continually witness that a large number of children of educable age do not attend school, though residing near excellent Public and Denominational schools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schools of Art Open to the Travel Ling Public. To the Editor
SIR,—The paragraph in your issue of 6th instant, upon schools of art and their management, emboldens me to ventilate a subject I have often thought upon, namely, their being thrown open to the travelling public gratis…
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