INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, September 6. The Woman's Franchise League contemplate running two lady candidates for the vacancies in the Education Board. At a meeting of the City School Committee the members expressed great dissatisfaction with the results of the school examinations, and declined to accept the explanation of measles and shifting teachers as satisfactory. They appointed a sub-committee to investigate the matter. This Day. An old lady named Agnes Harvey was burned to death in a house here yesterday. She lived alone. Wellington, September 6. The Minister of Lands told a Blenheim deputation which waited on him to-day that Government were negotiating for the purchase of the Starborough run in Marlborough, and there was considerable probability of an arrangement being come to. Sir James Hector, who lately visited the Cheviot Estate to report oa the supposed seam of coal, discovered it to be driftwood. He believes, however, that there are indications of coal on the estate, and he intends to return and conduct a more extended investigation. Pahiatua, This Day. The Star and Herald have amalgamated, the former being merged into the Herald, a lately established paper owned by a company. Tho Star ceased publication from yesterday.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 59, 7 September 1893, Page 2
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