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Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 10

i OFFICE- WORKSI Cumberland Street. Castle Street. Telephone No. 571. Telephone No. 710. JW. FAULKNER and SONS, Dunedin, « Engineers and Ironfounders. WireWeavers, and General Galvanisers. Manufac- » turers sf W ire Netting for Sheep, Pig, and Babbitproof Fences, (any width or gauge.) Galvauised after made, Ornamental Iron Grave Railings and Concrete Kerbing. Also Front Fencings, Garden Seats, Ac, Carriage, Cottage, and Field Gateß, Pillars in Wrought or Cast Iron, Stone or Concrete. Rivets and Bolts, (plain or galvanised,) Coppered Steel Sofa and Chair Springs, Wirewove Mattresses, Sieves, and Screens. Wiro work for Oat and Malt Kiln Floors, and Wool-drying Wire work of every description made to order. Estimates given. Highest price given for Old Zinc and Caßt Iron. « f ,3. W. FAULKNER & SONS, D UNB DI N^ •m/T R B. G. GRBS HA M, SURGEON DENTIST, Dee Street (Over Mr Rein's Jewellery Shop), . INVERCARGILL. 1 \l First-class Work, with »H Latest Improve(ments, and Moderate Prices. Painless Extraction of Teeth, 5o MR S M'Q UEE N, Ladies' Hairdresser. , HAIR COMBINgTaND CUTTINGS Made up &t LONDON PRICES. Theatrical Wigs Supplied. 52 and 54 GEORGE STREET, DtJNEDIW. Orders by Posb punctually attended to. 23a WOMEN'S SUFFBAGE AND PROHIBITION. Miss Ackerman, widely known as a lecturer and platform speaker in the cause of prohibition and Christian work among women, arrived in Sydney recently and chatted freely with a Daily Telegraph representative on what she had seen and learnt during her visit to the United States, her native country. She got to Chicago in time to attend several of the notable international gatherings which were held at tha World's Fair. There were men and women from everywhere. At the religious congress, for.example, nearly all creeds were represented. And did they all speak in English? Didn't they ! My ! they put some of "us " — meauing those supposed to bo most skilled in the language and its idioms — to the blush. The congress was a perfect revelation to hundreds who had but a shadowy acquaintance with the tenets of what the supercilious Anglo-Saxon calls the doctrines of heathenism. Each representative made a short speech or delivered a short lecture outlining his creed, alluding to its founder, and sketching historically the progress which it had made. "And such handsome men ! " said Miss Ackerman quite rapturously. "Greab dark eyes, beautiful white teeth, and such pretty ways ! They were just lovely ! And all arrayed in their beautiful robes of office, too. One enthusiastic Yankee— perhaps he was an Englishman — was so captivated by the beauties of the Buddhist religion, j I think it was, that when the speaker had finished he embraced the creed. It was a novel sight. Of course in all their utterances the speakers explained the peculiar boauties of their religion." A feature of the congress that struck Miss : Ackerman was the complaints made by one or , two of the foreign representatives against the ; invasion of the Christian missionaries. In , future work among the •• heathen," Miss i Ackerman remarked, missionaries will have to devote more attention to the logical side of Christianity and- less to the emotional. This fact impressed her most strongly. It was impossible to listen to the discourse of these eloquent and cultured men without being coni vinced that to carry Christianity forth to the lands where it would be met by men of such learning and experience the representatives of Christianity must be individuals of high intellectual standing. Two other features of the World's Fair gatherings were the meebir>ga of the members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and of the representatives of the women's suffrage movement. The emancipation of the gentler sex is spreading, gradually, perhaps, but no less certainly, from west to east, until it if, she believes, only a matter of time when woman will march to the poll and record her vote for Congress, as well as for the two Houses of every local Legislature. "Looking, however, at the representative body which discussed the subject at Chicago," said the lady, "you could notice the extraordinary advance in public sentiment.' Miss Ackerman does not think women will demand seats in the Legislature. They would be content with 6eeiug that the right men wero elected. Personally, she did not look with much favour on the election of women to the position of mayors of towns or to the offices of street supervisors. As the political education of women proceeded their aspiratiojjs would be turned, she thought, not so much to public posts of this character as to the class of work which would sweep away the drink traffic and improve the condition of home life. She believes that woman will be on the side — not of Socialism, as it is ordinarily understood, but of Christian Socialism. Miss Ackerman will not admit that as the temperance party are now fighting for national prohibition in the States, State prohibition had seen a failure, khe says: "State prohibition has not been so great a success as we believe national prohibition will be. Under national prohibition we shall be able to prevent the importation of liquor to the country, a proceeding which we are unable to effect now." Constable Gleeson, of the local police force, has been promoted from the third to the second class.