School for Little Coogee
A deputation representing residents from Waverley and Coogee waited upon the Minister of Education to ask for the establishment of a school at Little Coogee. They said that there were no facilities for a large number of children living in the vicinity of Little Coogee, and they had to walk in some instances as far as a mile and a half to the Coogee or Waverley school. The Minister said he would obtain a report on the matter.
Rev. Clark's lecture on Dickens
In these days of prolific fiction-writing we are apt to forget that in Dickens we have a veritable modern classic … It is of course the fashion in some quarters to sneer at Dickens … to say that his pathos was mawkishness, and his humour burlesque, to call his character-drawing caricature and his high prose descriptions bathos but as Paley said of Gibbon's attacks on Christianity, "How can you answer a sneer."
Trumble in splendid form
The match between Oxford University and the Australian team concluded at Oxford today, and resulted in a victory for Australia by seven wickets. The result was in large measure due to the splendid bowling of Trumble, who was almost unplayable … [taking] six wickets at a cost of only 17 runs in the second innings …The next match commences at Bristol today against Gloucestershire.