LADIES IN COUNCIL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 25 July 1891, Page 204

LADIES IN COUNCIL.

Nearly 500 delegates, from about 180 Liberal Associations throughout the country (writes our London correspondent) attended the Council Meeting of the Women’s Liberal Federation at the Prince’s Hall, Piccadilly. Mrs Gladstone occupied the chair, and the assembly was addressed by such recognised upholders of ladies’ tights as Lady Aberdeen, Lady Carlisle, Miss Cobden, and Miss Cons. On the previous evening there was a reception at Lady Hayter’s. On the 27th the annual meeting of the Federation was held at

St. James’s Hall, and on the 29th Miss M. Martin Leake, the secretary, read a paper on ‘Organization’ to a meeting of the Official Union of the Federation in the Conference Room of the National Liberal Club. Altogethei the past week was fraught with moment for the ladies, business being nicely blended with amusement through the capital concert given by Miss Cons, on the 23rd, at the Royal Victoria Hall. I give portraits of Miss Cobden and Miss Cons, as typical representatives of the women’s suffrage movement. They are martyrs to the paradoxical law which says that, though they may sit on the County Council, they may not speak or vote.