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Schools, 1883

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Parramatta School of Arts

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 3

A GENERAL committee meeting of the above was held last Monday evening in the Council Chambers. The president (Mr. H. Schwartzkoff) occupied the chair, and there was a good…

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Teachers' Grievances — Incapable Teachers. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 17

SIR,—All who have interested themselves in the education of the young have felt that the administration of the Act under the department was from the beginning defective; but few indeed were prepared…

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New Roman Catholic School at Balmain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1883 · page 5

Archbishop Vaughan performed two ceremonies at Balmain yesterday. In the morning the new church of St. Joseph Balmain West, was opened; and in the afternoon, the first stone of a new school for the Marist Brothers was…

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Tent Schools Abolished

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1883 · page 3

It having been pointed out to the Minister of Public Instruction that in consequence of the approach of winter many public schools which are now held in tents or marquees will be quite uninhabitable by…

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School of Arts for Randwick

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1883 · page 3

A public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Randwick was held in the local town hall last night for the purpose of taking into consideration the formation of a debating and literary association,…

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Wolumba School of Arts. WOLUMBA

Evening News · Wednesday 18 April 1883 · page 2

The Wolumba School of Arts was formally opened last night. Over 200 persons were present at the inaugural dinner. Mr. James Osborne, the President, made an introductory…

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School of Arts' Bebating Club

Evening News · Thursday 19 April 1883 · page 2

The attendance at the meeting of the club on Monday evening wag large and attentive, the large lecture hall being crowded. Mr. P. J. Gandon, president, in the chair. The question submitted for…

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Deputations. School at Plattsburg

Evening News · Friday 20 April 1883 · page 3

A deputation was introduced this morning to the Minister of Public Instruction by Mr. Tighe, M.L.A., their object being to request the Government to obtain for them a certain piece of land for…

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Wesleyan Sabbath School Anniversary

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 2

THE annual celebration in connection with the above-named Sabbath School was commenced on Sunday last, when the Rev. Adm' Parsons preached sermons both…

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The Bishop of Goulburn on Catholic Education and the Examination of Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 9

THE Most Rev. Dr. Lanigan, Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, arrived at Jugiong on Monday evening, lOth inst., from Cootamundra. On the road his Lordship was met by a large concourse of the…

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Visit of the Archbishop to St. Mary's Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 19

ON Monday morning his Grace the Archbishop paid an official visit to the Marist Brotherts' School and the Girls school con-ducted by the sisters of Merey. The boys…

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St. Vincent's High School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 19

HIS Grace the Archbishop on Monday morning paid a visit to the High Scholl in connection vincent's St. Vincent's Convent for the purpose of bidding good-bye to the Sisters and their pupils…

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Fatal Panic in a Catholtc School in New York

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 8

New York, Feb.20.—A terrible panic attended with fearful loss of life occurred at a quarter past three o'clock this afternoon in.the parochial school-house attached to the…

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The New School at Balmain

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 18

ON Sunday afternoon his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney laid the foundation-stone of the now school which is to be built at Balmain for the Marist Brothrs, and as this was the last public…

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Deputations. School Land at Plattsburg

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 9

Yesterday, Mr. Tighe, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Works a deputation; consisting of the Mayor of Plattsburg, Alderman Richardson, Mr. Olliffe, M.L.A., and Mr. Hutchinson, M.L.A., with a view to…

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Temporary Chapel or School-house at Port Moresby.—chief's House, Anuapata

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 739

These engravings are taken from photographs by the Kev. W. G. Lawes, of the London Missionary Society, New Guinea. The missionary house is situated between the two villages of Anuapata and Elivara. The teachers…

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Quibbling About Primary Schools

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 3

It is very characteristic of a weak cause, supported by angry disputants, to find its advocates falling back on torturings and twisting of words, as if anything…

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Puseyism, or the Oxford Tractarian School

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 10

We wonder that Mr. Taylor did not see this from the first. Though particular points disputed between the Romanists and Protestants are different from those in question between…

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School Land at Plattsburg

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 6

Yesterday a deputation, consisting of Messrs J. B. Olliffe and Hutchinson, Ms.P., Ald. Richardson and the mayor of Platt-burg (Mr R. P. House) waited upon the Minister for Education to impress…

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Revolutionary Schoolboys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1883 · page 7

The Paris correspondent of the Times writes on March 13:—"The Alarchist infection is extending to schoolboys. There was a mutiny to-day at the Lycee Louis le Grand, and 270 youths have been sent home. A youth in the…

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