TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8557, 10 August 1893, Page 3

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

.-' CoR-.EsroxD._STs are requested to make ! their, communications short. While | always anxious to find space for letters i on questions of interest, we do not undertake to publish them unless they are | short and to the point. The necessity for brevity is especially great during the I session of Parliament.

INSINCERITY OF MINISTERS.

TO TH- EDITOR OF THE PRBSS. Sik, —Does Mr Seddon think that all the people in the colony are fools, and cannot see through him ? Sir John Hail brought iv a Womau's. Franchise Bill which Mr Seddon sneaked from him in au unfair way under the pretext that he would embody it in an Electoral Bill. He brought in the Bill, but, evidently, he never intended it to become law, and if betting was allowed, and I were a betting man, I should be inclined to give a hundred to one that he never intends to let the women have a vote.' When Mr Fish pats anyone on the back it is a bad sign, whether it is the Premier or anyone else, and you may draw the conclusion that mischief is meant.

If ever the women's franchise becomes law the ladies will have Sir John Hall to thank for it, and not Mr Seddon. The other night Mr Fisher passed his " Selling Drink to Children's Bill" through the Lower House, and Mr Seddon kindly tried to make it of non-effect. No doubt he will try to stop it passing the Upper House. In fact, I think the people can depend upon getting nothing from Mr Seddon and some of his colleagues. A very large number besides myself are thoroughly disgusted with such a Ministry who promise so much, and perform so little. Mr Fish we can understand, and it is expected he will soon have a long holiday, and there are far more understand Seddon and Co. than they are aware of.—Yours, &c, Full Up.