FEMALE FRANCHISE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13638, 4 July 1908, Page 5

FEMALE FRANCHISE.

SENTENCE ON. SUFFRAGETTES. ELECT TO GO TO GAOL. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, July 2. Twenty Suffragettes at the Westminster Police, Court., were bound over in' a security of £2O each to keep Oie peace for a year, in default a month's imprisonment ; five were bound over in . two securities of £25 each to keep the peace for a year, in default three months' imprisonment; one was bound over in £lO to keep the peace for six months ; and one ■was discharged. Lord Russell, in defending one of the Suffragettes contended that 'their opinions regarding the franchise were tantamount to J religious belief entitling them 'to imprisonment as first division misdemeanants. ". ! " ' ' Defendants elected to go to prison. A COLONIAL VIEW. Received 5.15 p.m., July 3rd. LONDON, July 2. In his address at- the University of St. Andrews, when the degree of doctorsliip of laws was conferred upon him, Sir T. Carrutliers, the Australian statesman, said that experience had much modified his op-, position to the enfranchisement of women. He added that tie women of Australia had not won the franchise by resorting to antics,