Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, December 1, 1886. Tenders for Public School Buildings
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 5
TENDERS are invited for the erection of Public School Buildings at Naremburn, North Willoughby. Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Department of Public Instruction,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 6
Sir,--I desire through your columns to direct the attention of the Minister for Public Instruction to what occurs to me as a grave omission in the curriculum of study at the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 December 1886 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Monday.--A deputation consisting of members of the Presbyterian Assembly waited on the Minister for Education to-day, urging that Bible lessons should be…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 December 1886 · page 7
Sir,—Referring to Mr. F. Treatt's suggested agricultural schools and your commendatory remarks thereon, there appear to be one or two important, factors which have been entirely overlooked in the conclusion arrived at Mr…
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Evening News · Friday 10 December 1886 · page 3
W.E. Hoowerth, a teacher in the Superior public school at Stanmore, was summoned, in the Newtown Police Court, on Thursday, for having aseaulted E[?]mund Russell. The complainant, a boy, stated…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 December 1886 · page 7
At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. Maunsell, D.S.M., N. E. Hooworth, headmaster, of the Stanmore Public School, was charged with assaulting a pupil named Edmund Russell,…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 15
THE following Catholic candidates were successful in the Civil Service Examination which was held at the University on the 1st of November:—Nora Brannelly, Convent of Immaculate Conception…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 15
ON Sunday afternoon a meeting of the parishioners of St. Benedict's was held in the local shcoolroom. The object of the meeting was to devise means for providing additional school accommodation…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 18
ON Wednesday there was an exhibition in this school, presided over by the Sisters of Charity, and the parents of the children and tfieir friends must have been highly edified and delighted with…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--a deputation representing the conference of the boards of advice waited on the Minister of Education to-day to…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 8
THE monthly meeting of the committee of the Granville School of Arts was held on Monday evening last. Present:—Messrs. 3. Nobbe (in the chair), Olsen, Grimwood, Flowers,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 29
The soldier, not the schoolmaster, is the most important personage in Russia, which contains a larger proportion of popular ignorance than any other country claiming to be civilised. Twenty-five years…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Congregational School Church, Mortlake. Opening Services
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 December 1886 · page 4
The opening services in connection with a new schoolchurch recently erected by the Congregational body at Mortlake were held on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday afternoon a meeting was held, at which the Rev…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 December 1886 · page 7
The annual entertainment in connection with the presentation of prizes took place yesterday at St. Ignatins' Jesuit College, Riverview. The weather in the morning was as unpropitious…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1886 · page 9
Sir,—Your Brewarrina correspondent. Mr. E. D. Millen, in referring to my communication which appeared in your issue of the 30th ultimo—if he will permit me most courteously to say so—has obviously misinterpreted, or by…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 December 1886 · page 10
This concert at the Y. M. C. A. Hall, given last evening under the direction of Mr. H. N., Southwell, was at the outset considerably disarranged through the absence, of a pianoforte. At 9…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 15 December 1886 · page 3
THE concert given in the Town Hall on Friday evening last by the pupils of the Parramatta North Public School, assisted by several of our leading amateur singers, was a great…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 December 1886 · page 4
A large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the Clergy Daughters' School, Waverley, yesterday afternoon, to witness the presentation of prizes to the pupils by the Hon. Lady Carrington. The approach to, and the interior…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 December 1886 · page 4
The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Nurses' Home and Training School took place at the Home, Phillipstreet, at noon yesterday, the Hon. Sir Alfred Stephen, G.C.M.G., presiding. Amongst those present were:…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 December 1886 · page 6
The fourth annual meeting of the subscribers to the Nurses' Home and Training School Phillip-street, was held at noon on Wednesday when Sir Alfred Stephen, G.C.M.G., occupied…
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