FEMALS SUFFRAGE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13317, 18 January 1912, Page 3

FEMALS SUFFRAGE.

AN OPPOSITION MEETING

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London, Jan IG. Mi1 MoKcrm.i, Mr J. A. Pease, Mr C. E. Hobhouse, Colonel Seoley, Mr Lambert, the Hon Hugh St l.eger, the Ear] of Granrird, and Lord Ht-rscbelh also appear oil tho platform to protest against granting womanhood suffrage on the 28th February.

Mr F. E. Smith, M.P., writing in "Tho Times," states that votes lor women would he a national calamity of the first magnitude, and a referendum was desirable to help the section of tho Liberals who arc prepared to face tho difficulty. Tlio Ministry arc not inconsistent iv advocating a* referendum, as it is'not a party mea-