NEW ZEALAND WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XIII, 27 March 1897, Page 392

NEW ZEALAND WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

An echo comes from New Zealand telling how the Female Suffrage Bill came to pass the New Zealand Parliament. The Government promoted the Bill, in accordance with electoral pledgee, and supported it with every show if enthusiasm in the Assembly But they did not want it to pass, and relied upon the Upper House to 1 brow it out. The majority of life senators are in the sere and yellow leaf, some of

them having sat since the colony obtained self government, and have to be trundled down to the House in bath chairs when occasion arises. Unfortunately, the Female Suffrage Bill came on at an hour when the veterans, on whom Ministers relied for rejecting ir, had hobbled off to bed. Before they could be brought back to the house in blankets the matter bad gone too far, and the Bill for female suffrage became law—to the consternation of those who had only made a show of desiring it.