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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1020, 6 February 1869, Page 2

Women and hek Rights have come to grief, and " the persons" have been sent j to roam forlorn, in company "with Mr. Mill, in. the dismal shades of disfranchisement.. The stony-hearted judges of the Court of Common Pleas have unanimously refused to admit female electors, or to upset by a " fluke" the settled practice of centuries. — Ausbrala&ian. Ameeica.-— ln America, matters are still very unsatisfactory.' ' 'President "Johnson and the Congress are again quarreling. The President sent a message urging the repeal of the bills which were lately passed, as the phrase is, over his head, and tho Senate refused to receive his message. This struggle, however, is now nearly at a close. It is a much graver matter that the American press generally repudiates Mr. Reverdy Johnson's endeavours to settle the Alabama dispute, and that Congress has addressed the President for that Minister's recall. The best news that has come from that quarter is that the President has granted an unconditional pardon to Mr. Jefferson Davis and the other Southern chiefs who were still under the ban of the law. — Australasian. Visit of the G-overnoe to Waieaeapa. — Tho Mercury says: —We understand that it is the intention of his Excellency Sir G-. Bowen to visit the Wararapa during the races. His Excellency will most probably be accompanied by his Honor the Superintendent, and has intimated his intention of attending the ball at the public hall, G-reytown. _ An advertisement appears iv the same, inviting the residents of the Wairarapa to meet on the 4th inst., to make arrangements for his reception. The Ruahine. — This vessel will leave Wellington for Southampton on the 22nd March next ; and among her passengers will be Captain Benson, General Manager of the Company, and Mr. Brown, Superintendent Purser. — Independent. TnE Bishop of Dunedin. — The Bishop of Dunedin (Dr. Jenner) has arrived in the colony. At Panama, as we learn from the Merccmtile Chronicle, he performed the ceremony of consecrating the Foreign Cemetery of Panama, with the customary formalities and solemnity.