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Schools, 1888

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Sunday-school Teachers' Association at Maitland. [By Telegraph]. (From Our Correspondent.) West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 October 1888 · page 10

A meeting of Church of England clergymen and laymen interested in Sunday-school work in the central rural d[?]anery was held in the yestry of St. Peter's Church, East Maitland, last evening, for the purpose of taking steps to…

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Sunday School Anniversary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 October 1888 · page 10

The anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Sunday school, Albron-street, Surry Hills was celebr[?] last Sunday and Tuesday. On the Sabbath, Rev. G. W. Smailes preached in the morning, on "Here[?]…

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Church of England Sunday-school Institute

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 October 1888 · page 3

The annual gathering of the Church of England Sunday-school Institute for the diocese of Sydney was opened on Tuesday morning in St. Andrew's Cathedral at 11 o'clock,…

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Orange Public School Site

The Australian Star · Friday 26 October 1888 · page 5

ORANGE, This Day. -- A site for a public school at the corner of March and Nile streets, East Orange, was approved of by a meeting of residents on Wednesday…

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Public School Teachers and Teaching. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 10

Sir,—It appears from your leader in your issue of the 20th on "Cruelty of Children" that you fully realise the importance of the work of Primary school teachers. To have this work well done, able teachers should be obtained,…

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Emu Public School Concert

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 2

A concert, to raise funds for school prizes, was given on Friday, October 19th, by the children of Emu Public School, assisted by some kind friends, and, judging from what could be gathered of the…

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Balmain Congregational Sunday School Anniversary

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 6

The 30th celebration of the above took place on Sunday last. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers, evergreens and mottoes. The flowers no doubt…

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Entertainment at St. John's Schoolroom. "NURSERYRHYMIA."

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 6

On Tuesday evening last a grand musical mid dramatic entertainment was given in St. John's Schoolroom, Birch-grove-road, and passed off with splendid…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 15

The annual picnic in connection with the Croydon Congregational Sunday-school took place on Wednesday, 24th instant, at Parramatta Park. There was a full muster of children and a fair number of visitors. The Park was…

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Intercolonial Schools Race

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 39

All the arrangements connected with the Intercolonial School Race between the St. Ignatius's College and the Church of England Grammar School, Geelong, are now completed. A number of gentlemen having urged a change…

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Australian Schoolmasters. No. Xxi.—mr. George J. PERKINS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 27

PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, MACKAY (Q.), Mr. George Joseph Perkins, principal of the High School, Mackay (Queensland), was born in Wilshire, England, in 1844, and was educated…

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Industrial School, Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 October 1888 · page 3

On Saturday the committee which has been formed to give annual entertainments to a number of the charitable institutions in and around Sydney visited the Industrial School at Parramatta. This institution was at one…

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France and Italy. the School Inspection Dispute. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Oct. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 October 1888 · page 8

The French Government have decided to abandon the inspection of the Italian schools in Tunis, the Italian authorities having threatened to inspect the French schools in…

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St. John's School Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 October 1888 · page 5

A very suecessful musical entertainment took place on Friday evening, when tne pupils of St. John's School, Darlinghurst, gave a concert in aid of their prize fund at the local schoolroom. In spite at the unsettled weather and…

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Wesleyan Sabbath School Convention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 October 1888 · page 6

A convention of Sabbath school teachers, and officers in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, was held last evening in the Centenary Hall, York-street. In the absence of the Rev. G. Lane, president of…

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Feast at the Girls’ Industrial School, Parramatta

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 31 October 1888 · page 2

To say that the entertainment provided at the Girls’ Industrial School, Parramatta, on Saturday by the little band of philanthropists who have for some weeks now been busily engaged in…

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An Unfortunate Schoolboy

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 November 1888 · page 6

A BALMAIN schoolboy, named Fred. Phillips, while playing in the ground attached to the Superior Public School, met with a painful accident last evening. The…

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West End Wesleyan Sunday School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 4

The anniversary services in connection with the above were celebrated on Sunday last by special services conducted in the morning by the Rev. W. G. R. Stephinson the…

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Superior Public School Concert in the Town Hall

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 4

Last night an exceedingly enjoyable and high class concert was given by the scholars of the above school assisted by Miss Clara Hamilton, Miss E. L. Paisley, Masters W…

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Sunday-school Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 9

The annual meeting of the Sunday-school Union was held in the Pitt-street Congregational Church last evening. The Rev. T. E. Owens Mell presided. The meeting having been opened with prayer…

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