IMPERIAL POLITICS
WOMEN'S 6UEEBAGE. Prtu Association—By Tckgr&ph—Copyright. LONDON, February 26. In a Jott-er to tho Dundee branch of Iho Women's Freedom League Mr Churohill says ho intends to vote against p tltc oecnnd reading of tho Ooncifiation Bill. Ho adds tho bcliof that tho country \r not prepared to give a volo to 7,000,000 women at tho presont time. Mr Augnstino Birrcll urged a deputa- d tion of Rrifltnl woman to stick to the. Con- P ciliation Hill, which woidd plnoo a million H and a-quartcr women on tho register. If t! they tried to amend the Government's " Reform Hifl, as had been suggested, they 1' mast loso all. w A CLOSE CONTEST. « LONDON, February 27. « (Received Feb. 28, at 0.10 a.m.) The by-election for tho Si. RoJlox '» division of Glasgow, occasioned by Mt '' M'Kinnon Wood's appointment as Secrc- h tary for Scotland, was hotly contented. *' It resulted as follows:— >> M'Kinnon Wood 8430 M'Qiiirton (Unionist) ... 8061 " Tho election was fonghl on the issues . of Homo Itulo and tho Insurance Act. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15389, 28 February 1912, Page 6
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