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Schools, 1883

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School of Arts Lectures. the Discovery of America

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1883 · page 8

ON Monday, night, at the Council Chambers, Professor D. W. B. Slad[?] delivered a lecture on the discovery of America. There are not more than twenty persons present throughout…

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School of Arts for the Glebe

Evening News · Monday 28 May 1883 · page 3

A movement is on foot for the formation of a School of Arts at the [?]. A public meeting was held a short time ago in reference to the matter, and a prosisional committee was appointed to draw up a…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Instruiction, Sydney, 23rd May. 188[?]. Tenders for Works in Connection. with Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1883 · page 2

TENDERS will be received at this Office for the work specified in the Schedule hereunder, up to 10 o'clock a.m., on the various dates set forth in the second column, Tenders are to be addressed to the Under-Secretary,…

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Public Schools' and Artillery Cadet Corps

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 May 1883 · page 3

The above corps mustered at the Redfern railway station at 9 a.m. on the 24th instant, and proceeded to Parramatta for the purpose of celebrating her Majesty's birthday by an…

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Loyalty and the School of Arts Debating Society. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 30 May 1883 · page 3

SIR,—I was taken last night to swell the admiring crowd who attend at the School of Arts Debating Society, and am compelled to express my surprise at the tenor of some of the expressions used by a…

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Ambulance Lecture at the School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 June 1883 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon Professor Anderson Stuart delivered the second of a series of ambulance lectures at the School of Arts to a fairly large and evidently appreciative audience of members of the…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 29th May, 1883. Tenders for Works in Connection with Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 5

TENDERS will be received at this Office for the works specified in the Schedule here under, up to 10 o'clock, a.m., on the various dates set forth in the second column. Tenders are to be addressed to the Under-Secretary,…

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Presbyterian Sabbath School Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1883 · page 4

A meeting in connection with the Presbyterian Sabbath School Association was held last evening in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, St. Leonards, the meeting being the first of a series, the second of which will be held next month…

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Religious Instruction in Victorian State Schools. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 June 1883 · page 7

A conference of delegates from the Bible in State Schools Leagues was held to-day, when about 50 representatives from the Melbourne and branch leagues were present. The Bishop of Melbourne referred to the…

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Those miserable Tent Schools. ARMIDALE

Evening News · Thursday 7 June 1883 · page 2

The weather ia bitterly cold, and there is snow in various parts of New England. Three fourths of the children who attend the tent schools are sick. Where is the Minister of Instruction, and…

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A School Struck by Lightning at Auckland, N.z

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 June 1883 · page 4

A heavy thunderstorm, which passed over Auckland, N.Z., on May 28th (says the Auckland Evening Star), will long be remembered by both children and teachers of the Ponsonby public…

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School of Arts Committee

Evening News · Friday 8 June 1883 · page 3

A meeting of the School of Age committee was held in one of the [?] of the institution yesterday evening his Honor Mr. Justice Windeayor, [?] in the chair. The minister of the last meeting were…

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Waggh Wagga School

Evening News · Friday 8 June 1883 · page 2

The same deputation that had waited on the Minister of Public Works from Wagga Wagga waited upon Mr. Reid, the Minister of Public Instruction, on the subject of half an acre of ground being obtained for…

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School Board Meeting

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 2

A MEETING of the District School Board was held at the Court House on the 1st inst., at 11:30 o'clock a.m. Members present—Hon. G. H. Cox, Mr. T. R. Smith, M.L.A., Mr…

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Catholic School Examinations

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 15

DURING the last fortnight, the Rev. Father Carr examined the Catholic schools at Gundagai, Tumut, Adelong, and Wagga. The Gungai school is taught by Miss Walsh, who has given…

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The Inspector of "The Catholio Schools of the Archdiocese

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 15

THE Academic, or old collegians' association in connection with St. Patrick's College, Melbourne, met in the college lecture-hall on Friday evening ; the Rev. C. Nulty, B.J., president, in the chair. There was a good attendance of members,…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 7th June, 1883, Tendenrs for Temporary School Buildings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 5

TENDERS are invited for Erecting Temporary Wooden Buildings for the Public School at Charleyong. Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Department of Public Instruction,…

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Public School at Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 13

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Loughnan, A. G. Jones, Day, L. Levin, Ms. L. A., and a number of residents of Wagga, had an interview with the Hon. Minister for Public Instruction yesterday, to ask the Government to…

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Parramatta School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 13

A deputation appointed at a public meeting at Parramatta was introduced by Mr. H. Taylor, M.L.A. yesterday, to the Colonial Secretary, that they might solicity the aid of the Government in provioing the town with a new school of…

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School Days at Eton

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 1067

The sketches of Lord Rosebery and Lord Randolph Churchill are particularly good. "Rosebery (or Dalmeny, as he then was) had a slight figure and fresh, prim, youngladyish appearance. His family name of Primrose suited…

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