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The A.J.C. having decided to encourage racing over obstacles by materially increasing the prize money for both hurdle-racing and cross-country events, have taken another important step in that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Wednesday afternoon a match in connection with the schools' premiership (Rugby) was played at Parramatta between the King's School and the Newington College teams, meeting for the second time this year. The match…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the result of a six years' agitation at Lindfield for the establishment of a public school, the Department for Public instruction has accepted a tender for the building, and the work has been put in hand. According to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The King's School and Newington College played their second male of the year in the schools' competition at Parramatta on Wednesday, The King's School winning by 19 points to nil. The game was much closer than the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There has lately been great difficulty in obtaining male teachers for the State schools, the number of youths entering the profession falling off. The Minister of Education, in a report,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London, August 11.—Four Mayors in France have been suspended for disregarding the instructions of the Government in regard to the closing of religious establishments…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The ceremony of opening and blessing the new school-churoh of Our Laxly of Seven Dolours at Greenwich was performed by the Coadjutor-Archbishop on Sunday last in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →London, Aug. 18.—A Commissary of police in executing decrees under the new Religious Associations' law at Douarnenez, in the Department of Finistere, threatened to blow up…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Gentlemen,—I have just learned that you have placed our little paper—The WATCHMAN—on your Index Espurgatorius, and that, too, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Church party in Brittany proposes to boycott the lay schuols in consequence of the action of the Government in forcibly closing the religious schools. Tradesmen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir J. G. Ward states that 800 salaries have been raised as the result of the Teachers Salaries Act passed lost year, and 500 are slightly lower. The annual report of the Education Department states…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The annual meeting of the Toongabble School of Arts was held on Thursday evening, Mr. J. Knox, the president, occupying the chair. The annual report was not of such an encouraging…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GOLDEN TEXT (John iii. 14, 15).—"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up ; that whosoever…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Commonwealth general order No. 134, published on the 12th instant, contains the following :—The organisation and efficiency of a citizen force necessitate above all other considerations the…
Continued on Trove, page 473 →The new wing of the Burwood Stale School was opened on Friday, August 8, be Chief Inspector Bridges. To commemorate the event invitations were given and accepted by several members of the House of Assembly and prominent citizens of the borough. Mr. Scholes, as Chairman of the Hoard of Advice, opened the proceedings by giving an outline of the rise and progress of the borough. The school at present has an [?] of 1000 scholars, under the guid[?] of the popular master, Mr. Ferguson. The attendance at the opening was large. The Cadet Hand rendered some suitable selections…
Continued on Trove, page 483 →At a conference of school boards of advice today a motion was carried to the effect that religious instruction should form part of the ordinary lessons in State schools, given by accredited…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The annual meeting of the School of Arts members was held on Thursday, the President, Mr. J. Knox, occupying the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Wednesday afternoon the second King's School-Newington match of the your in the Groat Public Schools' Premiership Competition, was played on the King's School Oval in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the matter of the premature publication of the particulars of his scheme for the establishment of schools of instruction for the Commonwealth…
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