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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1299, 5 June 1880, Page 2

Dr. Wallis is certainly an eccentric ;politician. His-latest piece of eccentricity was : the.announcement which, he made yestepday of his intention to move an amendment iin the Regulation of Elections Bill for extending the franchise to women. We are* afraid the rev. doctor is a practical joker. His speeches generally are mirth-provoking, the drollery of them being greatly enhanced bythe solemn pulpit-like manner in which they are delivered, while his strange crotchets and peculiar ideas upon many matters render him a very desiraiblemember-of Parliament, if only for the "relief fhatf' his speeches give to. the prosaic tedium of the generality of Parliamentary debates,-? .There are matiy things about the member for 'Auckland that we admire," for, though eccentric in his manner and his ideas upon sopie matters, he is a thoroughly ! conscientious and honest member of Parliament, bnt we can 'scarcely' think that he is" in;:earnest in his latest moye, npr; -eap we fhyik tbafcithV House will treat his ously. It will probably be accepted as one of the doctor's jokes, and, after occasioning some amusement for members, be quietly rejected. If the doctor had turned bis attention to endeavoring to secure voting

power for women who hold- property in their own right and pay he would have done something more practical, v