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Schools, 1889

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The School Ship Vernon

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 6

The annual report of the nautical school ship Vernon was laid on the table of the Assembly yesterday. The document, as all documents throwing light on the criminal…

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Congregational School Church, Kogarah, Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 9

This building has been designed with a view to its ultimate use as a schoolroom, and with this object has been arranged with a centre nave 41ft by 23ft, and with attached aisles 9ft wide. The…

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Parramatta School of Arts

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 8

THE School of Arts, For our own ports, A show intend to hold in This month of June…

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Parramatta School of Arts. to the Editor of the Cumberland Argus

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of Saturday last is contained a statement of some person having opened the reading room which should have been opened but was closed…

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Parramatta School of Arts. the Exhibition

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the committee of the Parramatta School of Arts was held on Friday evening. The President, Mr. R. H. De Low, presided, and there…

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St. Ives Public School

Evening News · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 8

"Opening of St. Ives Public School" was the order for Saturday; and I must admit that, had it not been for the fact of the ticket for the ceremony intimating that carriages would be in…

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Opening of the Public School at St. Ives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 7

The Public, school just erected at St. Ives was formally opened on Saturday in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen and most of the children of the place. Sir Henry Parkes was to have…

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Public School Opening

The Australian Star · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 6

ON Saturday Sir Henry Parkes was expected to open a school at St. Ive's, in the St. Leonards electorate. Owing, however, to the pressure of his official duties, ho was…

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Opening of the St. Ives School. the North Shore Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 4

St. Ives is a pretty little settlement, consisting almost wholly of orchards situated about 12 miles from Milson's point and two miles and a half off the Lane Cove-road. On Saturday…

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Inauguration of the Adelaide School of Mines. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 7

On Saturday afternoon about 3000 persons went by invitation to the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building, and took part in an imposing ceremony of inaugurating the School of Mines and…

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Alleged Forgery an Uttering. a Schoolmaster in Trouble

The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 June 1889 · page 5

IN the charge division of the Central Police Court to-day a respectably-dressed schoolmaster, named Robert Stoors Wilton, was charged wit having forged a cheque for £33…

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Charges Against a Victorian Schoolmaster

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 June 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Public Service Board to-day held an inquiry into the conduct of Martin Henry Foran, State school teacher, lately in charge of Cremorne school, Richmond…

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South Australian School of Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 June 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.--The ceremony in connection with the formal opening of the South Australian School of Mines was held in the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building on…

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Public School Cadet Corps

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 June 1889 · page 3

The Minister for Public Instruction has recently had under consideration the necessity for improving the organisation of cadet corps in connection with the public schools of this…

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Railway Disaster in Ireland. Collision Between Two Excursion Trains. One Hundred Sunday-school Children Killed. [Bt Cable.] (From Ouu Correspondent.) London, June 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 June 1889 · page 7

Two excursion trains, laden with 1200 Sunday-school children came into collision at Armagh, in Ireland. The effects of the collision were terrible. One hundred of…

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Performance by School Children

The Australian Star · Friday 14 June 1889 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA, This Day.--Last night the Oddfellows Aall was crammed, us standing room being available on the occasion of the production of…

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Katoomba. From Our Own Correspondent. School of Arts

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 4

We have got to something definite at last in connection with the School of Arts which has been on the tapis for the last few weeks. The gentlemen who undertook the preliminary steps did not meet with…

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Shocking Accident in Ireland. One Hundred Sunday-school Children Killed

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 16

London, June 12.-Two excursion trains, laden with 1200 Sunday-school children, collided at Armagh, in Ireland. The collision was most severe, and when an examination could be made…

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General News. Plethora of Teachers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 1255

We understand that, in view of the large number of teachers already in the service of the Department of Public Instruction desirous of undergoing, a complete course of training, there will be no…

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Romish Tampering with School Histories

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 8

"SWINTON'S HISTORY," the Boston School Committee said, " was removed in the interest of truth and fairness," its "teaching," they said, "is not correct; it conveys the…

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