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A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechani[?]s School of Arts was held last night in the hall of the institution, which was attended by about 400 persons. The e[?]tement manifested, as each speaker for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning his Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, with Lady Loftus, Six Henry Parkes, Mr. F. B. Suttor, Minister of Justice and Public Instruction, and Mr. Wilkins, secretary to the Council of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special general meeting of members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held in the large hall last evening, for the purpose of considering the desirableness of opening the roading-room of the institution on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held last night in that institution, having been convened in response to a requisition, signed by 50 members. About 300 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cincinnati, December, 1879.—A despatch from Hagerstown, [?] that a morder which occurred near a country schoolhouse between Centreville and Williamsburg two weeks sine has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The last paragraph in your yesterday's leaders nullifies the whole of your arguments, and, moreover, it gives publicity to a statement that is unture. As I seconded the resolution for Sunday opening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—At a meeting of the Church of England Schools Defence Committee held last evening, I was requested, as chairman, to write to you with reference to two statements which appeared recently in your columns, with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A diorama of the Russo-Turkish war, painted and recently imported from Italy, is to bo exhibited for the first time at the School of Arts to-night, when, in addition lo the attractions afforded by the paintings,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—You will oblige by allowing me a corner in your valuable paper to notice the letters of your correspondent[?] " Look Out " and " Chairman of a Denominational Board." " Look Out " seems to think that the teachers of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night a Dio[?]ma of the Russo-Turkish War, was exhibited in the School of Arts to an audience which only moderately filled the hall. The scenes depicted represent some of the most noteworthy events in the great struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Will yon kindly allow me to state in reply to the letter of Mr. George Wright in your columns of this evening, wherein he elegantly designates my resolution at the commencement of the meeting on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Sunday afternoon the ceremony of blessing and laying the foundation-stone of the Sacred Heart new school was performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney, in the presence of a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ON last Sunday (says the Post) the new Convent school, recently erected in Mudgee, was formally opened. In the absence through illness of Dr. Quinn, R. C. Bishop of Bathurst, the building…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sir, -- Whatever may be the differences of opinion as to the clauses of the new Educational Bill, whether on the side of the secularists or on that of the denominationalists, all are agreed that if the Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Those who, during the late dreadful struggle between Russia and Turkey, followed through the columns of the daily papers the fortunes of the two contending armies, to the conclusion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF the wives and daughters of Sydney are not good housewives and managers, it will not be for want of capable instructresses. Apart from Miss Whiteside's excellent demonstrations of cookery, we have Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held last Tuesday, in the hall of the institution, which was attended by about 400 persons. The excitement manifested, as each speaker for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—In this morning's issue of your paper is a short article on the opening of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts reading-room on Sundays, in which the subject is temperately and fairly treated as a step up the ladder of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The panorama of the Russo-Turkish War at the School of Arts continues to attract good houses, and is well worth a visit from those who like to see good pictures of exciting incidents. There might, however, be an improvement…
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