ELECTORAL RIGHTS.
. IMPORTANT BRITISH RULING. By Telegraph—Pi<ess Association—Copyright London, August 24. The Court of Appeal has ruled that a tenant is ineligible to vote unless he directly pays tho poor rate. This decision reverses tho practice of the last-forty years. If strictly observed, it will disfranchise half the voters in some of tho industrial constituencies. The electors on the registers in Iho United Kingdom m 1910 wero classified as follow: Owners, (508,270; occupiers, 6,494,115; lodgers, 383,571; freemen, etc., 52,002; universities, 48,154; lota! electors, 7,705,717; total population, 41,4-18,8G5.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 5
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87ELECTORAL RIGHTS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 5
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