Enfranchisement of Women.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6479, 23 September 1892, Page 2

Enfranchisement of Women.

THREATS OF OBSTRUCTION. (FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER.) Wellington, to-day. Clause 2 of the Electoral Bill, containing the definition of the word " person " as including: women, thus affirming the principle of female suffrage, was passed by the Council without murmur or comment. Sir G. Whitmore, who entered the Chamber subsequently, protested, and threatened to obstruct the Bill line by line and word by word. Sir Patrick Buckley also announced his intention of opposing line by line the new clause granting electors' right to women. It was ultimately agreed to adjourn till to-day, when a straight-out vote on the broad question of female suffrage will take place. The rumor that heavy gold 'has recently been obtained in Duncan's Valley is undoubtedly authentic (says the Blenheim Times), for the successful miners themselves were down in Picton lately, and if their words did not betray their luck, their actions did. At the last meeting of the Wanganui School Committee when the Inspector s re» ports were read "some of the members objected to the many trivial faults found in the reports, as they considered it was more : harmful than anything else to commit such I small matters to writing." Mr Maxim is perfecting a flying machine at hia place near Bexley, Kent. The wings will have a spread of 10ft. It will be worked by a boiler, and the fuel used will be gas made from petroleum. The machine is designed for a crew of three men, and it is estimated that the lifting power will be five tons. A laborer named Adams, aged 25, was brought before the Resident Magistrate afe Carterton, and committed to the Wellington Asylum. He had been attending Salvation services, and in religious fervour cut and lacerated his breast with a Knife— '• to let the devil out of him," he said. The following figures will show whafc has been the effect of the reduction of the postage on letters for the United Kingdom from 6d to 2id. There were 566,790 lefcters posted in 1890, and the postage waa L 17.066. In 1891. 644,742 letters were posted, but the amount ttm only L 8,178,