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Schools, 1888

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Country Public Schools. the Question of Fires. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 May 1888 · page 5

FORBES, Tuesday.--At a public meeting held here last night the following resolution was carried unanimously :--That this meeting respectfully asks the Minister for Public…

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Sir Henry Parses and the Bathurst Catholic Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 15

THE Bathurst Times of Tuesday has the following in its report of the Premier's visit :-Sir Henry Parkes was next shown over the Convent school, the Orphanage, and the educational…

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Those Naughty Boys. SCHOOLMISTRESS N. S. Wales to Mr. Punch

Sydney Punch · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 7

I'M so glad you've come back, for these terrible boys With their play and their nonsense, their fights and their noise Are driving me frantic no lessons--all toys…

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Agricultural Schools

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 35

A. L. (Goulburn) has expressed himself thus: It is doubtful whether agricultural schools and colleges will accomplish much real good. However much we educate our youth in theory, unless they can see that a living…

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A School of Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Minister of Education, in reply to a deputation asking for £10,000 for the establishment of a school of mines in Castlemaine and the purchase of apparatus,…

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The South Australian Teachers' Association. the Annual Meeting. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 May 1888 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Saturday.--The annual meeting of the State-school Teachers' Association was held to-day. The president, in his address, stated that the proposal of the Ministerial…

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Sydney High School A. A. C. Sports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1888 · page 5

President, Mr. J. Coates; committee, Messrs. J. Cullen, H. N. Slee, C. P. Watt, W. Suttor, J. Kingsbury, M. Cleeve, E. H. Quodling; referee, Mr. J. Coates; judges, Messrs. T. B. Trebeck, W. C. Taylor. G. Barbour;…

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Teachers and the Salvation Army

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1888 · page 4

Mr. Colls, on behalf of Mr. Dawson, asked in the Assembly yesterday: ''Is it a fact that Miss May Sutherland, pupil teacher at the public school, Cooma, has been asked to resign…

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Charge against a Music Teacher

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 5

CROOKWELL, This Day.--At the Police Court yesterday a music teacher named Joseph Walker was charged with the abduction of Lydia Gaunson, a girl of 19…

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School Attendance. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 5

Sir, -- The report of the Department of Public Instruction is at length before us, and the lesson to be learned from its array of figures is not very gratifying. It has been said that "figures…

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News by Telegraph. a Music Teacher Charged with Abduction. the Powers of Racing Clubs. Official Appointments

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 5

WILCANNIA, Friday. -- Mr. Gower, the police magistrate, has been offered the magistracy of Broken-hill, Mr. Wyman Brown, the present police magistrate and warden, finding his work CROOKWELL, Friday. -- Joseph Walker, a music teacher, was charged at the police court to-day with abducting Lydia Grimson, 19 years of age. Both parties are well known here and MORUYA, Friday. -- At the District Court to-day a case of great interest, Crapp against the jockey club, came on, for forcibly removing a fruit cart from the racecourse. The judge held…

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Amusements. the Criterion Theatre—"the School for Scandal."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 May 1888 · page 8

Old theatre-goers, who can, carry their memories back 20 years or so have never forgotten, and are apt occasionally to recall with enthusiasm, a period of theatrical history in Sydney when high comedy of the class of "The School for…

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Charge against a Music Teacher

The Australian Star · Monday 14 May 1888 · page 6

CROOKWELL, This Day.--At the police Court yesterday a music teacher named Joseph Walker was charged with the abduction of Lydia Gaunson, a girl of 19…

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Ragged Schools

The Dawn · Tuesday 15 May 1888 · page 4

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A Public School Teacher Wanted at Condong. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 12

Sir,—Permit me through your columns to call the attention of the Department for Public Instruction to what seems to us an unnecessary delay in sending a teacher to the school at Condong, Tweed River. A promise was made by…

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Sidney High School Athletic Club. Third Annual Sports

Referee · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 3

The above club put up a splendid day's sport on Wednesday on the Association Ground. The committee are to be congratulated upon the excellent time they kept, their…

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Catholic. a Remarkable Record. Works Established by Cardinal Moran in Four Years. Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Convents

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 17

THE Right Hon. W. B. Dalley in his address in St. Mary's on the eve of the Cardinal's departure gave a striking and startling summary of the amount of work done by the Cardinal since his…

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Letters to the Editor. Teachers and Truant Officers. (To the Editor.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 17

SIR,— Some of the regulations and methods of procedure at present in operation in the Public Instruction Department indicate a remarkable want of administrative capacity in the Minister…

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Melbourne Public Schools Four-oars Race. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 15

This afternoon the first heat of the public schools annual four-oared gig race was rowed on the Upper Yarra in the presence of a large number of spectators. The Scotch College having drawn a bye, the Geelong and Melbourne…

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Inspection of Non-public Schools

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 3

We have from time urged the advantage of a system of State control over primary instruction, to a degree far beyond the limits laid down in the Public Schools…

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