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Schools, 1888

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A Schoolmaster in Trouble

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 5

ORANGE, This Day,--George Anderson, M.A., a recent arrival here, and who has started a private seminary, has been arrested on warrant for passing valueless…

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Bathurst School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 5

BATHURST, Monday.--A large meeting of members of the School of Arts was held to-night to consider the motion to open the reading-room on Sunday afternoons. The motion…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 6

Sir,—It is difficult to conceive what good the Primate can hope shall accrue to the cause of religious instruction by his straine[?] attempt to claim Professor Huxley as an advocate of Bible teaching. In your report of the meeting…

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A New School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 5

BALYNST, Tuesday.-- At a meeting of rate payers last night it was decided to establish a School of arts. A small minority favored a free public library…

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Breaking into a School

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Yesterday, At the local police court, a man with the decidedly "inspiring" name of John Beaven, was charged with breaking and…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 9

Sir,—" Layman " in to-day's issue of the Herald accuses me of making an attack on the ministers of all denominations, but especially on those of the Church of England, for not doing their duty in imparting special religious…

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New School of Arts

The Australian Star · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- A meeting is to he held at Stockton on Tuesday night, for the purpose of establishing a local School of Arts. The township across the water is…

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Schools of Arts' Endowments

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--The committee of country schools of arts are up in arms re there being no provision this year on the estimates for their endowment. At a meeting…

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New Catholic School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 14

ON Sunday last Cardinal Moran was again engaged in the performance of a foundation-stone ceremony. Nearly every Sunday during the past few months the Cardinal has had an engagement…

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Superior Cookery. By Mrs. Black, of the West-End Training School of Cookery. Glasgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 10

This compact little volume of recipes follows in tho wake of the numerous small cookery books publishod within the last low years; and although one of the most useful, its contents differ slightly from those of…

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Grammar, with Vocabularies of Volapuk (the language of the world), for all speakers of the English language. Second (greatly revised) edition. Translated and published, with the consent of the inventor (Johann Martin Schleyer), by W. A. SPEET, Certificated Teacher of the Universal Language. Whittaker and Co., London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 10

Many attempts have been made to find a languago which may be used as a common means of intercourse between different nations, but hitherto without success. Languages have been invented, but the difficulty has…

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Religion in Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 619

The Bishop of Sydney has been honourably distinguished ever since he came to the colony by his enthusiasm on behalf of religious teaching in public schools. Although his traditions led him to prefer the…

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Hamilton School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5

On Saturday afternoon the memorial stone of the new Mechanics' Institute, Hamilton, was laid by Mr. James Fletcher, M.L.A., with great [?]clat. It was pay Saturday, and Humilton was e[?] Jete. Flag were flying in all…

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The Proposed School of Mines. Suggestions by the University Senate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 March 1888 · page 8

The question of the establishment of a School of Mines is now engaging the attention of the Government, and although the details of the scheme have not been perfected, it is understood that a sum of £20,000 has been placed on the…

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Penrith Wesleyan Sabbath School. Anniversary Services

Nepean Times · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 3

The anniversary services in connection with the above school were conducted in the Penrith Wesleyan Church on Sunday day last, In the morning at 11 o'clock Mr…

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Mining. a Government Smelting Works a School of Mines

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 10

THE Government have decided, in view of the extensive mining discoveries throughout the colony, to take immediate steps towards the erection of smelting works for the purpose of…

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A School of Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

The movement now on foot for the establishment of a School of Mines in connection with the University is one which ought to have been started…

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Sherwood New Public School. Official Opening

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

THE HONOURABLE JAMES INGLIS, Minister for Public Instruction, accompanied by Mr. Kemp, Architect for the Department, visited Parramatta on Tuesday for the purpose of formally…

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An Evening at the School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 6

By starting from the junction of King and Pitt streets, and travelling south along the right hand footpath of the latter thoroughfare, the chances are entirely in favour of your passing within a few feet of the…

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A Great Teacher. (See portrait on page 657.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 9

Dr. Maclaren, of the Union Chapel, Manchester, stands probably only second to Spurgeon as a leading light of the Baptist denomination. He was born in Glasgow in the early part of the…

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