QUESTIONS FOR POLLY PLUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2358, 16 August 1871, Page 3

QUESTIONS FOR POLLY PLUM.

To tho Editor of the Heuald. Sib, —I would like, through tho medium of your columns, to ask "Polly Plum" to state in a few short petty sentences, withouL any of that circumlocution which characterises her letters, what she demands as " Women's Rights?" I have read the whole of the controversy (?) between her and her various correspondents, but aa yet fail to see what, she aims at. Her letters to me are " full of sound and fury," but after reading them through they "signify nothing." After patiently reading every tiling emulating from her during the past six months, I am still in a stato of blissful ignoranco as to the nature of the so-called " rights" she claims for women. Her ideas are so wrapt up in a cloud of words that it is impossible to sift the grain of wheat (if there is one) from the bagful of chall' in which her letters are smothered.—Please answer tho following questions st'rivtim :— Ist. What rights are they which "P. P." desires for women ? 2nd. Has not woman a perfectly legal right under the present law to protoct her own property and secure it to herself by means of a marriage settlement ? 3rd. On what does she ground her idea that women generally aro dissatisfied with their present position ? -Ith. Setting aside tho present agitators—Mill, Miss Nightingale, and others, —that " P. P." is so fond of quoting, can she stato on her veracity that she knows six married ladies in Auckland who .ire dissatisfied with their present legal position ? sth. Can "P. P." bring to bear any text of Scripture which is violated by the present legal position of wom.e.i ? In conclusion, 1 would again ask " Polly Plum" to reply in terse sentences to these questions, to avoid circumlocution, far-fetched similes, and recondite allusions.—l am, io., Jeelady* P atee.