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ON MONDAY week the pupils of the Dominican Convent, Tamworth, provided a most delightful entertainment for their parents and a few friends. His Lordship Dr. Torreggiani, Dean O'Connor,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →IN the compiliation of the list of Catholic pupils last week in connection with the Junior Public Examination held at the University, we accidentally omitted the names of several…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mr. Haynes said, the fact remained that the Roman Catholic authorities had shown a want of confidence in the teachers in their own schools. The late Dr. Vaughan, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PARRAMATTA, Saturday.—On Friday night some of the inmates of the Girls' industrial School at Paramatta, taking advantage of the temporary absence of the matron, became unmanageable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hon. J. H. Carruthers, after returning thanks for the welcome given him, said that he appeared there as a member of parliament, as the Minister for Public Instruction, and as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—As supplementary to my fervent censure of brutal treatment in the Euclid lesson, I would further urge that this perplexing task be expunged from Public school standards, because so many subjects of vital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 26th October, 1889.—Dear Sir,—Adverting to your recent representations to the effect that the Public School buildings at Hornsby are in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →" Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 29th October, 1889—Sir With reference to your letter, dated 3rd ultimo, I am directed to acquaint you that the Minister of Public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PARRAMATTA, Saturday.—Annette Hunter, Lucy Ellen Dower, Barbara Gillespie, Alice Carmichael, Eliza Stanfield, and Margaret Toohey, inmates of the Parramatta Reformatory…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday afternoon his Eminence Cardinal Moran opened a bazaar at St Bide's school, Pyrmont. The object of the undertaking is to aid in liquidating a debt of about £750 on the church…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—A lot of regulations in connection with our Public schools have been adopted by the head of the Public Instruction Department lately. Amongst them is an old one renewed, which requires all teachers to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the absence of the Minister For Education Mr. Under-Secretary Johnson on Monday dispatched an officer to Parramatta to report fully upon the riot of Saturday at the Girls'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hon. J. N. Brunker, Minister for Lands, opened the newly-erected Public school at Mount Pleasant on Saturday in the presence of a large number of people. Mr. Brunker was enthusiastically received…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The R.M.S. Carthage, which arrived at Albany yesterday, bringa the following details of the schoolboys' strike:— Since the terminus of the dock strikes there have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In connection with the outbreak at the Industrial School, six girls, named respectively Dower, Gillespie, Carmichael, Stanfield, Toohey, and Hunter were brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THURSDAY ISLAND, Monday.--A report reached Yale Island the day before the Spendthrift left that a South Sea Island missionary-teacher at Lesi had been murdered by six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NARRANDERA, Saturday,--A meeting was held here last night to take action for building a school of arts on the land dedicated for that purpose, and a committee was appointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BATHURST, Wednesday.--A pleasant school concert at the village of Eglinton took place at the schoolhouse. Solos and part singing, and an address from Mr. Halsted,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The usual weekly meeting of the above club took place in the smoking-room of the School of Arts, on Monday evening last. Mr. R. A. Price, the president, occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The Minister for Lands, Mr. J.N. Brunker, opened the Mount Pleasant public school at Mount Vincent on Saturday with some ceremony. There was…
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