FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13270, 22 November 1911, Page 6

FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

SIR EDWARD GREY'S VIEWS

(Received Nov 21, 10.10 p.m.)

London, Nov 21. Sir Edward Grey, in a letter to Lord Lytton, states that the prospect of a real substantial extension of the sufrage to women has laterly improved. It is unreasonable to expect the adoption of a measure giving women an absolute majority on the Parliamentary register, but he is in favour of an extension on the basis of tho Conciliation Bill, and also to married women. The Government's Bill is so drawn as to facilitate such an amendment which, if it secures the suffragists' acceptance, will be more quickly feasible than a separata measure. A member of the front Ministerial bench might move an amendment if tho supporters of the movement considered it desirable, but the only opportunities would be useless without union amongst tho sunwrtors of women's suffrage ill the Houso of Commons.