A SUFFRAGIST COMEDY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 5

A SUFFRAGIST COMEDY

MICE AT A POLITICAL MEETING.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LO-NDON, December 3, Students broke up Miss Pankhurst’s suffragist meeting at Nottingham. They liberated tame mica on the platform, bat she caught and fondled them.

Miss Christabel Pankhuret was born in 1860, and was educated at Southport and Manchester High School, and, at sixteen, abroad at a school in Switzerland. On tho death of her father, a year later, she assisted her mother in earning their living. Miss Pankhuret became a member of tho Independent Labour party, and commenced work for the suffrage by sending up resolutions to the I.LJ?. Conference, and assisted in getting them carried. In 1903 she formed the Women's Social Political Union, and carried resolu.ions on woman suffrage in Trades Councils all over tho country. In 1901 Miss Pankhurt, applied for admission as a student at Lincoln's Inn, and, being refused, she spoke at tho Union Society of London—the well-known Legal Debating Society—on the question of Ilia admission of women to the Bar, and_ cirried the society with her. In 1905 she obtained the prize for international law at Victoria University, Owen's College, Manchester, and last year she took her LL.B. degree, obtaining honours and being bracketed at tho head of the list with one man. She was arrested for interrupting Sir Edward Grey's meeting in Manchester in October, 1903, and went to prison for a week. Miss Pankhnrst is one of the roost popular speakers on the TV.S.P.U. platform.