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A conference between teachers of public and private schools, and principals of colleges, and Mr. Sargood, Minister for Defence, was held this evening for the purpose of discussing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Referring to remarks in the Legislative Council last night, I would like to offer a simple little nut to some of our Upper House magnates. If there is so much that is wrong in the children of poor men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. ABBOTT moved for leave to bring in a bill to authorise the issue of a grant of a certain portion of the church and school lands. The motion was agreed to, and the bill read a first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Unless on the principle of "when a man is down kick him," I am at a loss to see why Mr. Bradley singles out private schools for his strictures while so many other places of business are still worse in a sanitary point of view—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--I have watched with great interest the work done in this colony in the cause of secondary education, and as I am personally acquainted also with that obtaining in New Zealand, I have, perhaps, not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A conference of teachers of public and private schools, and principals of colleges, and Mr Sargood, Minister for Defence, was held this evening for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Dean Russel, writing to the "Advertiser," urges the electors to support candidates favouring the reading in school- hours of selected portions of the seri[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. J. H. YOUNG drow attention to the want of residence accommodation for school teachers in country districts. He understood that there was a hard and fast rule that money should be expended…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIR,—As I perceive, from a paragraph in your paper a few evenings back, that there is a proposed amendment of the Public School Act, not, in my opinion, for the better, I think it is high time for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE High Schools have been reprieved for the year. There was no great enthusiasm either in attack or defence. Mr. Lyne confined himself entirely to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir,—I shall be glad if you will permit me to express an opinion, through the medium of your columns, that the administration of the Public Instruction Act, so far as it relates to the appointment and control of school teachers in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the invitation of the Bishop of Adelaide a private meeting of ministers of religion was held in the Church Office this morning, for the purpose of discussing what common action should be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The 15th annual meeting of the subscribers to the Sydney Jewish Sabbath School was held last Sunday, in the Protestant Ball, Castlereagh-street, when the president, Mr. M. Gotthelf, presided. The annual report, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 618 →Speaking a few weeks earlier at Leicester at the opening of a Sunday-school Memorial Hall, Mr. Mundella said he was the first man who in his own person had united the two offices of vice-president of the Council and president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 582 →On the 27th Nov. last Mr. Coonan, in the House, made inquiries about the conduct of Mr. Brettell, the public school teacher at Cessnock, and the papers in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hon. J. P. Abbott yesterday morning paid a visit to Cockatoo Island, for the purpose of investigating complaints, which had been made with regard to interference with the school premises,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is unfortunate for the satisfactory settlement of the question that the movement to omit the item of £7000 from the Estimates for the “High…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Assembly last week, Mr. Abbott stated, in answer to Mr. Burdekin, that the conference of sohool inspectors held last year in Sydney recommended—1. That in the event of the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. ABBOTT moved for leave to bring in a bill to authorise the issue of a grant of a certain portion of the church and school lands. The motion was agreed to and the bill read a first…
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