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Schools, 1888

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School of Arts for Carcoar

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 5

CARCOAR, Thursday.--A movement has been started for the erection of municipal chambers and a school of arts combined. A meeting of the School of Arts committee was held last…

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The Old Scholar Cardinal and the School Boys

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 7

A CORRESPONDENT of a London paper. April 28, writes : On Monday h is Eminence Cardinal Newman. honoured Oscott with a wholly unexpected visit. A telegram had arrived a few minutes…

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Balmain Superior Public School Athletic Sports. List of Prizes and Donors

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 4

It is certainly unnecessary to remind the juvenile portion of our renders that the above sports take place to-day, but we would suggest to parents the possibility of…

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Musical Entertainment St. John's School-room

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 4

A very enjoyable musical entertainment was given in St. John's School-room, Birchgrove-road, on Wednesday evening last, the attendance being an exceedingly…

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Late Sporting. Football. England V. King’s School

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 4

A match between the English footballers and past and present members of “the King’s School is to be played on the Parramatta Cricket Ground on Tuesday next, June 12…

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At the School of Arts

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 7

Esmeralda Longcoffin—“I am looking for a book.” Librarian—“What son of A book do you wish ?”…

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St. Lawrence Mission Schools Tea Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 13

Yesterday afternoon the Protestant Hall was filled by a large nnd fashionable audience on the occasion of an afternoon tea concert, in aid of the St. Lawrence Mission Schools, Darling Harbour. The affair owed its success in…

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Playing School

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 29

Rat-tat!on the table, and school has begun. As I'm the whole school, why, the class numbers one. The teacher's my own little girlie of five,…

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Australian Schoolmasters. No. Ii.—the Rev. P. E. RAYNOR; M.A., Warden of Christ's College, Hobart (T.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 28

The Reverend Philip Edwin Raynor,M.A., of New College, Oxford, now warden of Christ's College (lately the High Sohool). Hobart, was born in Kelvedon, Hatch Rectory, near Argar, Essex', on February…

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The University of Sydney. the Medical School. (See illustration on thia page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 30

The handsome edifice now approaching completion in the Sydney University grounds to the left of the main building as one approaches it along the main avenue is destined for the accommodation of the…

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Teachers in Training. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

Sir,—I crave the influence of your valuable journal to bring before the "powers that be" a matter of great injustice to the pupil teachers of this colony, hoping that someone better able than myself will advocate their cause…

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The Want of Fires in Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 4

BATHURST, Monday.--Much dissatisfaction is expressed by parents sending their children to the public school at no firewood being provided by the department for warming the…

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Alleged Stabbing Affray Among Schoolboys

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 8

MELBOURNE, This Day.--It has been reported by the Warrambool Police to-day that William Brebner a lad of 13 stabbed Arthur Davis 12, both attending…

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The Englishmen in Parramatta. England V. King’s School Past and Present

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 3

The English team of footballers visited Parramatta on Tuesday (yesterday) to meet a team composed of students of the King’s School, past and present. The Visitors arrived by train…

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The Public School at Wollongong. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 June 1888 · page 8

Referring to the question asked in the Legislative Assembly last night by Mr. Melville regarding the Public school at Wollongong it is thought there must be some mistake. The Public school at Wollongong is one of the…

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The Nicholson Street Public School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 5

A large number of the parents and friends of the children attending the public school, Nicholson-street, assembled on Thursday afternoon, by invitation of Mr. Waterman, to…

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Superior Public School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 5

The presentation of prizes in connection with the late athletic sports, held, at Birkenhead, on Saturday last, took place in the schoolroom yesterday afternoon in the presence of a…

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Schools Vacations

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 6

All the public schools and most of the private schools have now "broken up" for the midwinter vacation. For some time hundreds of pupils have been engaged on work for the…

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The Britishers v. King's School

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 39

The hardest battle the British team has yet fought in the football field took place at Parramatta on Tuesday, when it met Kind's School (past and present). Many people anticipated that the Britishers would walk over the school…

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The Season of 1888. the School of Industry Ball

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 34

When Lady Darling, in 1826, founded the Female School of Industry in Sydney, she and the various ladies associated with her in the good work could hardly have foreseen the long and successful career…

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