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Schools, 1879

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The Treasury, New South Wales, 29th January, 1879. Contracts for the Public Service. Protestant and Roman Catholic Orphan Schools, Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 10

NOTICE is hereby given that TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of Friday, the 28th February next, for furnishing, on account of the Public Service, the supplies undermentioned, in such quantities as may be required during twelve…

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Camden School of Arts

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 2

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1878, Read at the annual meeting, Jan. 80th, seventeen members present:— “The Committee. of the Camden…

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The School of Arts. (To the Editor of the Cumberland Mercury.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 3

SIR,—I see by your valuable paper that there is a new Committee for the School of Arts. I hope it will be an active one, and I hope they will endeavour to make the school what it should be…

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Waverley Public School

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1879 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

AT last the people of Waverley are in pollution of a public school. The building is in every particular substantially built, and of [?] suitable to the present and future wants of the district. The main…

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Wallsend School of Arts. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle, Feb. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1879 · page 7

An important ceremony in connection with the social advancement of the district was performed to-day, at Wallsend, in the laying of the foundation-stone of a new School of Arts in that township. It may be proper to here remark…

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Breeding and Management of Pigs in England. From a Forthooming Agricultural Handbook for Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 335

1. The agricultural returns show much greater variations in the number of pigs than in any other domesticated animals, the annual difference sometimes amounted to as much as 13 per cent, (as in Ireland this year), the principal…

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The Old French School

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 29

The Hartford TIMES has lately published an entertaining account of chess in the days of Deschapelles and La Bourdonnais; the author is M. Delannoy, who carried off the chief prize in the TIMES Literary…

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Grammar School for Girls. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1879 · page 5

Sir,—The Attorney-General's motion, as a private member, affirming the desirability of establishing a High School for females, having been so successfully carried through the Assembly would naturally lead one to think…

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St. Leonards. Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New School-house, by His Grace the Archbishop

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 15

Sunday last was a memorable day for the Catholics of North Shore. Young and old had been for some days previously awaiting its advent, not without some anxiety as to the weather,…

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Letter From the Waldenses. the Normal School.--pra-del-torno.-- a Monument of Ancestral Devotion

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 9

The following translation of a letter of Rev. J. D. Charbonnier, Moderator of the "Table" of the Waldensian, Church, will be read with interest. It was written in acknowledgement of…

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The Industrial Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 6

On Saturday last, through the courtesy of the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes, who paid a brief visit to the Industrial Schools at the Vernon, and at Biloela, we had an opportunity of inspecting those institutions. The visit was made…

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In School Days

Evening News · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 6
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

STILL sits the school-home by the road. A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines are running…

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Sir Gibbie. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xxiii.—more Schooling

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 407

The first opportunity Donal had, he questioned Fergus as to his share in the ill-usage of Gibbie. Fergus treated the inquiry as an impertinent interference, and mounted his high horse at once. What right had his father's herd-boy…

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The Industrial Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 429

On Saturday last, through the courtesy of the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes, who paid a brief visit to the Industrial Schools at the Vernon, and at Biloela, we had an opportunity of inspecting those institutions. The visit was made…

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Murder of Native Teachers at New Guinea. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1879 · page 5

News from New Guinea states that the natives at South East Cape have poisoned six native teachers by placing a upas tree in their drinking water. Fifteen out of the twenty men, with their wives and children,…

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Redfern Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 March 1879 · page 3

The new Public school in George-street, Redfern, st[?] in the first rank of the handsome and admirably planned buildings which are gradually replacing the Public schools of earlier date. It is situated at the extremity of the…

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School Sites. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1879 · page 7

Sir,—Reading in your columns of Saturday the evidence of Mr. Stephen, Under-Secretary of the Lands, I caw one of the reasons why the Council of Education Fends communication after communication to the Lands Department…

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The Denominational. School Teachers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 14

WE called attention some time since to the action of the Council of Education, by which, while the teachers of Denominational schools continue to receive no…

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