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Schools, 1882

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Free Translations. (By a party who can speak French like a native (of Australia), and Latin like a third form Grammar School-boy.)

Sydney Punch · Saturday 4 March 1882 · page 3

COULEUR DE ROSE--A jolly red nose. AU FOND--No heeltaps. A VOTRE SANTE--Here's towards you. LE BONNE GRACE--Quite equal to Grace…

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Fees in Superior Schools

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 March 1882 · page 31

THE meetings that have been held in several of the thickly populated townships to petition the Minister for Public Instruction to abolish the regulation which requires that special fees shall…

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Deputation. Public School Site at St. Leonards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1882 · page 3

Yesterday a deputation, consisting of Mr. W. Tunks (Mayor of St. Leonards) and aldermen Stevenson, Langley, Jago, and Jenkins, waited upon the Minister for Education (Hon. F. B. Suttor) to protest against two acres of the…

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School of Arts Debating Club

Evening News · Saturday 11 March 1882 · page 7

The debate by the members of the School of Arts Debating Club, "that tho principle of local option is inconsistent with our representative institutions," was brought to a close last Monday evening, Mr. W…

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The King's School, Parramatta

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1882 · page 376

The fiftieth anniversary of any institution in Australia marks it as belonging to a period of remote antiquity, as having straggled with many adverse circumstances in early years, and having fought successfully…

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School of Arts' Debating Society

Evening News · Tuesday 14 March 1882 · page 3

At the last meeting of the School of Arts' Debating Club an unusually warm discussion took place last evening on the subject of Messrs. Haynes and Archibald's imprisonment. It was moved by Mr. P…

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Proposed New Public School, St. Leonards. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 15 March 1882 · page 6

SIR,—Will you kindly permit me, as an interested resident of the locality concerned, to make a few remarks in reference to the proposed resumption of a portion of the reserve for public recreation and…

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Land for a School of Arts at Petersham. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1882 · page 7

Sir,—Some four or five years ago our Parliament, moved by some generous impulse, generously voted the sum of £300 for the purchase of land for a School of Arts for Petersham. But from that day to this scarcely anything…

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Cleveland-street School

Evening News · Friday 17 March 1882 · page 3

That the Cleveland-street public school is at present overcrowded, and likely to be more so, may be adduced from the following facts:—It was built to accommodate 1000 children. The number of pupils…

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Mines on Church and School Lands

Evening News · Friday 17 March 1882 · page 2

We understand that the Government has had under consideration the cases of those persons who are mining on school and church lands with the sanction of the Government, but not under the authority of any…

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Anniversary of the Wesleyan Sabbath School

Nepean Times · Friday 17 March 1882 · page 5

ON Sunday morning last the Rev. Mr. Hill, preached in the Wesleyan Church, when there, was a large attendance. In. the afternoon he examined, the attendants of the…

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School of Arts Debating Club

Evening News · Wednesday 22 March 1882 · page 3

There was a large attendance of members and visitors at the College Hall, on Monday evening, W. F. Martin, M.L.A., in the chair. When the question, "That a system of affirmation should be…

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Lithgow Sunday-school. LITHGOW

Evening News · Wednesday 22 March 1882 · page 4

The anniversary services of the Wesleyan Sunday-school were held on Sunday, and a tea and public meeting took place yesterday at the School of Arts. There were large attendances, and everything passed off successfully…

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The Native Teachers Proceeding to New Guinea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1882 · page 9

A farewell meeting to a number of natives of the Society and Hervey groups who have been trained in the Institution for Native Teachers at Rarotonga, and who are about to proceed to New Guinea, was held in the Congregational…

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The Native Teachers Proceeding to New Guinea

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 484

A farewell meeting to a number of natives of the Society and Hervey groups who have been trained in the Institution for Native Teachers at Rarotonga, and who are about to proceed to New Guinea, was held in the Congregational schoolroom in…

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School of Arts for Carcoar

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 6

Mr. Lynch, M.L.A., introduced to the Hon. F. B. Suttor, Minister for Public Instruction, a deputation of gentlemen from Carcoar, consisting of Messrs. Stimpson (mayor), Dodd, Fagin, and…

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Church and School Lands

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 6

Mr. Stimpson, one of same deputation, then drew attention to the fact of certain church and school lands in the district of Carcoar, being tendered for, in place of being submitted…

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Training-school for Bobbies

Sydney Punch · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 3

ORSEMANSHIP will of course be included among the multitudinous studies and exercises to be pursued in this most important institution, but it is feared…

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School of Arts Rebating Club

Evening News · Tuesday 28 March 1882 · page 3

The subject submitted for debate last evening was, "That a system of affirmation should be substituted in lieu of the present practice of administering oaths in Parliament and in courts of justice." A very…

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School of Medicine

Evening News · Wednesday 29 March 1882 · page 8

We have been given to understand that there is a deal of dissatisfaction existing amongst the medical students, since it has become known that the senate of the Sydney University intend to compel them to…

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