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Schools, 1889

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Dr. Higgles and the Public School System

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 July 1889 · page 4

In the Assembly yesterday, Mr. Abigail drew attention to a serious charge made against a branch of the public service by Dr. Higgins, Assistant Bishop to…

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Technical Schools in Sydney. Visit of the Minister for Education

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 July 1889 · page 5

Last evening Mr. Carruthers (Minister for Education) Messrs. Dangar, Tonkin and Morton, Ms.P., Edward Combes (president) and W. Edmunds and A. Bethel, Ms.P…

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The High Schools Examination

The Australian Star · Thursday 18 July 1889 · page 6

THE results of the examination for admission to the Boys' High School appear in our advertising columns to-day. The names of the successful candidates for the…

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Debating Institutes. School of Arts

The Australian Star · Thursday 18 July 1889 · page 7

The School of Arts Club held their usual weekly session on Monday night. Owing to the absence of Mr. R. Atkinson Price, the president, Mr. S. A. Byrne took the…

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Dr. Higgins and the Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 July 1889 · page 4

The telegram in our Tuesday's issue, to the effect that Dr. Higgins, the assistant Roman Catholic Bishop of Sydney, had "condemned the public schools as insidiously assisting…

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Bishop Higgins and "Godless Schools."

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 July 1889 · page 4

By what was either an extremely indiscreet or an unfortunately misreported speech, Bishop HIGGINS, Cardinal MORAN'S recently-arrived colleague, has…

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Bishop Higgins in Explanation. His Reported References to Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 July 1889 · page 5

Dr. Higgins, the Roman Catholic Auxiliary-Bishop of Sydney, whose recent remarks at Cooma on the occasion of the opening of a new convent have attracted public attention,…

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Humor The Schoolmaster

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 2

The teacher has be E Z time To teach the A, B, C s; It per C V rance takes, sub[?]me, And all his N R G's…

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Dr. Higgins on Public Schools. (Sydney Morning Herald, July 18.)

Evening News · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 3

The moderate and fairly thinking members of file Roman Catholic Church in the colony would do well to pay attention to the utterances of their bishops, for the purpose of learning wisdom,…

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Catholic. What Bishop Higgins Said at Cooma. the Public Schools Again

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 15

SOME remarks reported to have been used by Bishop Higgins at Cooma in connection with the opening of the new convent at Cooma, and in which his Lordship was represented as referring to the…

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Teachers and the C. S. Act. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 7

Sir,—Now that the Premier has intimated his possible intention of repealing the Civil Service Act, saving the superannuation clauses, surely this is an opportune moment for the position of teachers (under…

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Bishop Higgins and "Godless Schools." (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 5

COOMA, Friday.--A telegram published in the Mercury to-day announces that Bishop Higgins denies the statement attributed to him with reference to the public schools of the colony…

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The Old Schoolhouse

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 28

I wonder, Will, what sort o' boys and girls are. there to-day, Where we spent hours and hours, half in study, half in play?…

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Our Public Schools. To the Editor

Evening News · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 3

Sir,—I think that it would only be seemly for 'Bishop Higgins, now that he has set the ball rolling, while affirming, like Archbishop Vaughan did, that our public schools are calculated to instil…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, July 23. The Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. Church and School Lands Act Amendment Act

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 July 1889 · page 6

The SPEAKER reported the receipt of a message from the Governor, conveying the Royal assent to the Church and School Lands Act Amendment Bill…

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The Bible in State Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 July 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.-- The Anglican Synod have unanimously adopted a resolution favoring the reading of the Bible in State schools…

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Dr. Higgins and Public Schools. (Manaro Mercury, July 23.)

Evening News · Friday 26 July 1889 · page 5

Our telegram on Saturday announced that Dr. Higgins had denied the correctness of our report of his speech after blessing the convent on Sunday week. That gentleman has a right to deny…

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Shorthand in State Schools

The Australian Star · Friday 26 July 1889 · page 6

A DEPUTATION from the Phonographic Society, introduced by the president, Mr. S. Cook, waited on the Minister for Public Instruction to-day and requested that a system…

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Shorthand in High Schools

Evening News · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 6

The Minister of Public Instruction was waited upon, yesterday, by a deputation, introduced by Mr. S. Cook, who asked that provision might be made for the teaching of shorthand in the…

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The Anglican Bishop of Melbourne and Christian Education. a Plea Fou Religious Instruction in the Schools. the Secular System Condemned

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 16

THE Right Rev. Dr. Goe, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, in a circular which has been read in all the Anglican Churches of Melbourne, writing in connecticn with a petition to Parliament…

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