Yesterday evening the Congregational Union meetings for the year were opened with a devotional service, in the Pittstreet schoolroom. There was a moderately large attendance. The Rev. J. Jefferis, LL. B., chairman, presided, ...
Article : 2,130 wordsThere happened not to be any religious instruction given in either the boys' or girls' department of the Cleveland-street school on themorning of our visit, but we were informed that the various classes in both departments, ...
Article : 1,219 wordsYesterday was a shilling day at the Exhibition, in accordance with the recently amended regulation of the Commissioners with regard to the admission of the public, but not withstanding this the attendance through ...
Article : 3,057 wordsSir,—The International Exhibition of 1879 evidently languishes for want of support and patronage, and threatens to be a "white elephant." Weather and commercial depression have damped enthusiasm, and the "show" which was ...
Article : 780 wordsSir,—Although I had not thought thus to infring a second time upon your space, I feel myself beholden to reply to the letter of Mr. Arthur T. Edwards, in your impression of the 15th instant. Whether there were 300 ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,—Three leading men of our Sydney literati have just now given us their views on the Education question Each of the trilogies is distinguished for an [?]barrassing power of words. The piling up of the verbal agony is something ...
Article : 942 wordsSir,—May I ask a you to allow me space in your columns to enable me to reply to the strictures conveyed in the notice of the performance of the "Creation," published in your issue of this morning. ...
Article : 386 wordsSir,—Referring to your notice in the news of the day, on the "Production and Consumption of Wool." there is in the New South Wales Court of the Garden Palace an excellent case of samples of wool, principally from the ...
Article : 209 wordsA lecture was given at the Temperance Hall, yesterday evening, by the Rev. J. A. Dowie, the subject being "The Pastoral Letters and Speeches of Dr. "Vaughan: their Folly, Audacity, and Mendacity." The attendance was ...
Article : 473 wordsSir,—Previously to the opening of our Exhibition there appeared in your columns a paragraph stating that several "brass bands," at present stationed in Sydney, had offered their services to the Exhibition Commissioners, the absence ...
Article : 238 wordsThese three shows will commence simultaneously to-day, and, judging by the arrangements made in connection with them, they are likely to constitute three of the principal attractions of the week. The ...
Article : 912 wordsSir,—Permit us, as one of the old-established pianoforte houses in this city, to protest against an assertion your reporter has been led to make in his review of German pianos in your issue of this morning. Speaking of a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 21 Oct 1879, Page 3
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