THE ELECTORAL DISABILITIES OF WOMEN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 3218, 30 August 1878, Page 2

THE ELECTORAL DISABILITIES OF WOMEN.

TO THE I3DITOB.

Sir. — My ouM wom.m a=s bin recdin some funny things iv your paper, you no hoo can see better nor me, an h o mooatly roads. abifc wen chslder are in bed, hoo's bsen reedin about a now law for elections, and hoi wants ma to ax you a question. A tould her a chu-l atond on my yed a bit lunger before a rir out it newspapers and get mesel talked about reet throo Itangoteke. Now,',a dun no if you are married, if you aro yul no weel enuff if a woman sets her mind on a thing shcol aye it, if hoo goes throo fire and water for it. So, after we wur in bed and a wur just going to sleep, hoo turned roand and hoo said, '.' Why shud no you rite tut newspapers as wcel as Charley Toms or old Polgreen, you could put someatelse at bottom for your name same us Charley did were h j Jcalls old Polgreen a glutton 1" A tould her that wur no Polgreen'3 letter because I axed him and he sed he nowd nout about it, he sed he wur squelched ami bouled out, an he wur going to take ile. Wo argid a lung wile, but hoo wad have it, an hoo sed hoo wur goin to Wanganui, an hoo shud call an ju3t as you hersel. Wei, dang it, thinks I, if hoo onct gets ith office, ther'al be no paper that day, that's very sertin, so as usual, for quietness, I agreed to ax you if when tho neAV olee3Uun law comes out if women can sit on the road borda and' town counsels. I am, &c, Plivic s. • Po river, August 26th, 1878. [Our correspondent may rest assurod. The administrative ability of the fair sex is considered to have sufficient scope in tho government of their households. — Ed W.H.].