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Schools, 1895

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Sunday School Picnic

Evening News · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 6

The annual picnic in connection with the Liverpool Presbyterian Sunday School was held yesterday at Warwick Farm, when about 250 children and parents…

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Swimming in Schools. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 6

Sir,--I have for some time past contemplated enlisting your valuable support for the purpose of impressing upon the public and the Government the great importance of having…

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Paddington Wesleyan Sunday School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 November 1895 · page 8

Special services in connection with the thirty-seventh anniversary of this Sunday-school were held at the Paddington Wesleyan Church on Sunday. The interior of the church was prettily…

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Mill Hill (Waverley) Presbyterian Sunday School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 November 1895 · page 8

The scholars the Mill Hill (Waverley) Presbyterian Sunday school held their annual picnic at Little Coogee on Saturday. About 200 scholars and 100 adults were conveyed by tram to this pleasantly…

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Stealing From a School

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 November 1895 · page 7

Yesterday, at the Glebe Court, before Mr, Macfarlane, D.S.M., two lads of 14, named Wm. Gallagher and Sydney Howes, were charged with, in company, stealing a…

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Star's Special Cables a School Burked, Many Scholars Killed. Thirty-One Corpses Recovered. Two Boys Arrested on Suspicion. London, November 13

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 5

A shocking case of incendiarism, involving great loss of life, has occurred at Grenada, in Mexico. A school was set on fire while the pupils were at…

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News by Cable. Terrible Fire at a School. Thirty-one Children Burnt to Death. Many Others Hissing

Evening News · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 6

LONDON, November 13.—A school at Grenada, in Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. Thirty-one of the scholars were…

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Fire at a School. Thirty-one Children Burned to Death. London, Nov. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 5

A school at Grenada, in Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. Thirty-one inmates were burned to death, and many others are missing…

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Fire in a Mexican School. Great Loss Op Life. Suspected Incendiarism by Boys

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday, Noon.--A Are broke out in a school building at Grenada, Mexico, while the scholars were asleep…

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School of Arts

Evening News · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 5

The regular monthly meeting of the committee of the Sydney School of Arts was held on Wednesday. The following members attended, viz., F. J. Thomas, president…

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Sydney School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 6
Also in The Australian Star

The regular monthly meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday night, the following members attending:—Messrs. F. J. Thomas (president), Ralston, Beaver, Briggs, J. Reid, W. Reid, Bond,…

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Public School Concert at Balmain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 6

The Balmain town Hall was attended by a large audience last night, on the occasion of the pupils' annual concert in connection with the Smith-street Superior Public School, Balmain, the proceedings…

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Fire at a School. Thirty-one Children Burned to Death. London, Nov. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 5

A school at Grenada, in Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. Thirty-one inmates were burned to death, and many others are missing…

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The Raids in Asia Minor. Jesuits and Christian Teachers Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday--The Kurds have killed four French Jesuits at Malatia, a town in tho province of Dlarbekir. in Asia Minor. They have also…

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Fire in a Mexican School. Great Loss of Life. Suspected Incendiarism by Boys

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday, Noon.--A fire broke out in a school building at Grenada, Mexico, while the scholars were asleep…

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Smith-st. Superior School

Evening News · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 2

The pupils of the Balmain Superior School at Smith-street gave a very successful concert in the local town hall on Thursday evening. The building was…

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Tenders Accepted. Public Schools, &c

Evening News · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 7

The undermentiond tenders in connection with Public Schools have been accepted by the Government, viz.: Appin, improvements and repairs, J. Whitfield, £19 13s…

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Yass. the Convent Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 18

IN consequence of his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan having arranged to hold Confirmation in St. Augustine's Church in the early pare of December, the Sisters of Mercy found that they could not…

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Bible Teaching in State Schools. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 9

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the Synod to-day passed a resolution expressing the greatest satisfaction that a proposal was about to be submitted to…

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