GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1785, 10 November 1879, Page 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. PaiDAT, Notbmbbb 7. After the division in Committee on tne Qualification of Electors Bill on Mr Montgomery’s amendment, , , Mr Ballanch moved that the word person” be inserted instead of man, thus enabling women to vote. On the motion being put, that person take the place of “man,” the motion was declared lost on the voices. , . , A diviaon waa called and resulted for the clause as it stood; — Ayes—29. Messrs Allwright Messrs Moorhouae Barron Ormond Brandon Pybe Colbeck Eolleston Dick Seddon Driver Shanks J. J. Fisher Sheehan Gibbs Shephard Gisborne Stevens Hamlin Fntton Kelly Tole Levin Whyte McDonald Wood McLean Richardson Nob

Messrs Adams Messrs Murray Atkinson Oliver Bain Pitt Ballance Beeves Brown Beid DeLautanr Saunders Finn Speight George Swanson Hall Tainni_ Harris Tawhai Hnrsthouao TeWheoro Ireland Tomoana Johnston Trimble Kenny Tnrnbnll Macandrew I Wallis Montgomery 1 Willis Moss 1 Wright TVTr Moss then moved in the first sub-sec-tion of section 2 the following amendment “Every person, being a British subject, not less than twenty-one years of age, who shall have resided in New Zealand one year, and in the electoral district for which he or she claims to vote not less than one month (?) immediately preceding the registration of his or her vote, is entitled to be registered as an elector and vote at the election for members of the House of Representatives.” A good deal of discussion ensued, hut eventually the House adjourned at 12.15 without getting any further.