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Schools, 1888

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Grand United Sunday School Demonstration

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 325

The last of the great public events in connection with the centenary of the colony passed off most successfully last Saturday afternoon, when a Grand United Sunday School Demonstration and Service of Song was held in the…

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A Devonshire Schoolmaster

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 8

Mr. Baring Gould, M. A., in his life of Mr. Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow, gives the following advertisement over a little shop in Devonshire. It was written by "a schoolmaster of the old style"…

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Agricultural Schools

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 4

WE are threatened with another Government fad. In reply to Mr. CARRUTRERS Sir HENRY PARKES stated in the Legislative Assembly, yesterday…

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A School Book on Australasias

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 9

Mr. W. Wilkins, the late Under-Secretary for Public Instruction in Now South Wales, who some time ago published a " Geography of New South Wales," has now issued a carefully…

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The Victorian State School Books

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A deputation from the Australian Natives' Association waited today upon the Minister of Education with the request that a more national series of school…

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New Roman Catholic School-hall. Laying the First Stone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1888 · page 5

Despite the unsettled state of the weather yesterday afternoon, a couple of thousand people assembled in the vicinity of St. Benedict's Roman Catholic Church to witness the…

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Bathurst School of Arts. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 8

The annual meeting of the members of the Bathurst School of Arts was held, to-night, Mr. J. Rutherford, J.P., in the chair. The thirty-second annual report, which stated that though the progressive increase in members and…

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Bathurst School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 5

BATHURST, Monday.—The annual general meeting of the subscribers of the School of Arts was held on the balcony of the institute to - night, the president, Mr. James Rutherford…

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Parramatta School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1888 · page 12
Also in The Australian Star, The Cumberland Mercury

The annual meeting of the Parramatta School of Arts was held in that institution on Monday evening. The president, Archdeacon Gunther, presided. The secretary's report stated that the number of members on the roll was…

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Bathurst School of Arts

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 February 1888 · page 6

BATHURST, This Day.--The annual meeting of the members of the School of Arts was held last evening, the president, Mr. J. Rutherford, presiding. It appeared that…

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The St. Leonards School Op Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1888 · page 3

The twenty ninth annual meeting of the St. Leonards School of Arts was held on Monday evening, Dr. Ward, senior vice president, in the chair. There was a large attendance of…

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School Boys on the Trams. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 11

Sir,—Several letters have appeared lately on the above subject. The passengers (myself among the number) who travel by the 8.30 a.m. from Globe Point to town are subject to continual annoyance by the presence of the large…

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The Parramatta School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 February 1888 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Parramatta School of Arts was held on Monday evening, the president, Archdeacon G[?]ther, in the chair. Reference was made in the report to the fact that…

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Catholic. Our New Catholic School-hall. Great Gathering at St. Benedict's

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 14

IT was feared that the threatening state of the weather on Sunday would spoil the big demonstration which had been arranged by Father Coonan to mark the ceremony in. connection with,…

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Sydney Grammar School

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 363

The trustees of the Sydney Grammar School have within the last few days received a most welcome and important gift, Mr. Boyd D. Morehoad, of Brisbane having paid to them the sum of £1000 for the purpose…

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Messrs. Griffin, F All Ran and Co's School Books, Children's Books and Gift Books

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 9

From Messrs. Grithn, Farrnan, Okeden and Welsh, the well-known publishers of art and educational books, we receive through their Australian agent, Mr. Empson, Clarence-street,…

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Schools of Arts and Their Modern Functions

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 6

THE Parramatta School of Arts Committee deplore the want of interest taken in the institution by the public, despite their efforts; and at last, in…

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Shorthand in the Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 9

Sir,—As the ability to write shorthand now forms such an important feature in modern education, and is rapidly becoming a necessary qualification for all those engaged in commercial circles, kindly permit me, through your…

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