ELECTORAL RIGHTS TO BE GRANTED.
DEFEAT OF BILL ANTICIPATED. THE GOVERNMENT'S INSINCERITY. Later. The idea that the House would agree to accept electoral rights for women is not regarded as at all probable, and it may therefore be assumed that conferences of both branches of the Legislature will again prove abortive, and that we shall have no Electoral Bill passed this session. When it is considered that this is the first policy measure which' has got through both Houses, it will be recognised how fruitless the legislation of tho session hag been. Had Government been sincere on the question they could defeat Mr McLean's clauses, but the Premier mo\ T es not a finger. The fate of the Electoral Bill will show that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been grossly deceived. The Council was strengthened for the sole purpose of passing this Electoral Bill, yet half-a-dozen of the twelve appointees voted against the Government on it. Last year electoral rights were carried by two votes, and this year the majority promises to be three. 3 p.m. The Electoral Bill will not be reached in the Council before the evening sitting, aa Sir Patrick Buckley is anxious to learn the fate of the Licensing Bills first.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6770, 6 September 1893, Page 2
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208ELECTORAL RIGHTS TO BE GRANTED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6770, 6 September 1893, Page 2
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