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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 144, 6 January 1903, Page 4

The net profit from the floral fete held a few flays ago in Auckland will, it is expected, amount to nearly LSOO. A gentleman who is in business in England, and who has taken some interest in public.life, writes to a friend in Wellington in strong terms of the rnuch-distr ssed Education Bill, which has since passed the British Parliament. The correspondent says the Bill "is the most atrocious thing that has ever been attempted, I think, since the time of Archbishop lAud. It has thoroughly roused the Nonconformists, and they are banding together not to pay the rate. 1 was put up on the Radical ticket against the squire for the seat on the District Council, the point on which the election turned being the new bill, and was only beaten by two votes. It surprised the Tories, as this is one of their strongholds; We are going to contest all elections on this question. The Bill is aimed at an extermination of the Nonconformists, and I am persuaded if it is forced it will cause a civil war or will drive thousands to emigrate, as did our Puritan Fathers. I think with envy of your splendid education system of secular education in New- Zealand. Let it never be tampered with." An event that is probably without precedent in the history of matrimony took place at Blaydon Parish Church on a recent Saturda}' afternoon, when three sisters weie led to the alter, their names being Miss Nancy, Miss Margaret, and Miss Sarah Ashburn, The rector [Rev. H. P. Napier-Claver-ing] officiated at this unique event. WADE'S WORM FIGS—Hie Wonderful Worm Worriers—are a safe and sure remedy, in is boxes ; sold everywhere.