TELEGRAPHIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2851, 6 July 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Female suffrage agitation. Auckland, Tuesday.— -A meeting under the auspice 3of the Women's Franchise League was|held last night in the Opera House. Mrs Captain Daldy occupied the the chair, and the ball was crowded in every pait. A number of resolutions were i carried to the effect that the meeting considered women were now entitled to the franchise, not as a privilege; but as a right, and requesting the Legislature to pass au act granting the Bame without delay. Each resolution was proposed and seconded by ladies, who read or recited their little speeches with marvellous sangfroid, utterly oblivious of the cries of 'Hear, Hear* and the applause of au attentive and delighted audience.

It was contended that woman should have a vote as she is of very renote origin, having come out o"f Adam's ri^s and come' down to us through tlie ages hand in hand with man, and notwithstanding all this, she is placed on a level with criminals and lunatics, in being deprived oE a voice in the making of those laws which she has nevertheless to obey. One Speaker had failed to see any difference between a woman and a nj*o e*cej>fcu» th* «©x, while ail

agreed that wom&a was not merely a luxury ;but a neces.ity and without her \ the. tinbnrn millions would remaiu and politicians ai well as ot-her men would soon die O nt. It was emphatically urged ti'iat all the objections to the .extension of the Franchise to women were - based merely on sentiment and uoi; on reasoi?. * | Each resolution was carried, almost unanimously, and woman, with all her faults, fu rnisUed to t&e s Sfeckland pubha last night, one one of t\$ moM; amusiug and entertaining fo&&mkamm it has enjoyed For a long time past. Obituary. 4 V AvcKL&mt, Tuesday. -rMr : Bawe? Barrister and Solicitor, died'i'thii morning, the cause of death "Being inflaenza. Mr Dawes was 4j>f? a b umber of years managing 'clgi^ jt 0 Mr Coleman, solicitor, and orflr? a fow mouths aga started pEai-tic> ; his own account. Deceased was Z2 years of age aud leaves a wiJowi arid four young children. . A % Mr Harrison Kets aiiollicr po»| AucKiiiND, Tuesday.Mr SatrisoD late head-masttr of Beresford^Street school, has been appointed to the charge of a school in flawei^district; there were 60 applicant*)* J - Fire. Auckland, Tuesday.— A twelve roomed house in Nelson Street, wellknown as the Convent, and owned by Mrs Gribbs, was destroyed by *■ fire last evening, together with the whole of the furniture. - ? t Unsuccessful financing. Auckland, Tuesday.— At a Tmeeting of the Auckland Harhor soard this afternoon a letter was read tan the Manager of the Bank pf'^'Rew Zealand statiog that up to the pre« sent, the conversion of the Bo^urd'siS per cent bonds of 1874 i D^7^^' cenfe bonds with 50 years to rujQ^^bad not been successful. Prote§taKain«tcompeiMiitioai AuoKJiAND, Wednesday.-- Putlio meetings hate been held at Dvn t din, Invercargill, Timaru, Brannerton and Masterton at which resolutions wera | passed protesting against the proposed legislation giving compensation *to publicans for non-Tenewiila|licen.ae»»