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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 511, 23 September 1867, Page 1

Tub Bkitish Postal Telegkai'h Scheme.—The Post Cilice authorities are said to be busily engaged, observes the Builder, in maturing their postal telegraph scheme. It will be incorporated in a Bill which istobesubmitted to Parliament after the lieform Bills have left the Commons. A compulsory purchase by the Government of the plant and interest of all the existing telegraphic companies was originally contemplated, but die Treasury and the Board of Trade have taken some objections to this course, and the Bill will be of a permissive character, giving the companies the option of sale on terms to be agreed upon with die Government. When the Government has acquired the telegraph lines thev will become a department of the Post Ohice. INew wires will bo lai 1 down, and existing wires rearranged and redistributed on postal principles, com | billing despatch with a low uniform rate l of charge, and prepayment by stamps. It) is proposed to begin with a shilling rate for an}’ distance, which will frank a mcs-| saga of twenty words, without include g the names and addresses of either sende or receiver. The message will be delivered! free by special messengers within thej a-adius of a mile, so that a considerable demand will bo created for the services of lads and young men. ivailway companies, it is assumed, will be glad to sell the use of their surplus wires to the Government, and to permit additional wires to be laid down along their lines la London, eac i of the ten postal districts is to have its! own central telegraph oillce, and each re-1 reiving house in those districts will be a 8 ibordiuate oliico. Pillar hoses will be used for the deposit of messages. More frequent collections will be established ; and as soon as the message deposited in the pillar box reaches the head oillce ol the district, the telegram wil be transmitted to its destination.

Women’s Bights.—Mr Mill’s speech for giving suffrage to female householders was not quite so iuii o( illustration as his admirers expected —though the division was even more favorable than they hud hoped. Mr Mill insis ed on the doctrine ot making taxation and representation coextensive. Ho attacked the “ obscure feeling’" that women should really be devoted to nothing but what would make men happier, lie dwelt on the importance of raising women intellectually, if we would not have them pull men down to their own level. Women might be kept ignorant of politics, but they could not be kept entirely from the most dangerous part of it —political personalities. He assumed that giving won e i a vote would involve giving them political knowledge. And he pointed out several real legislative grievances under which women lie. Ifni lie did not touch the question of the exist ing political capacity of women, and, on the whole, the speech was one of the least telling Mr Mill has yet made. lie got, however, ,3 supporters, 193 voting aga.nst bun, and was left in a minority of Ido I'en Conservatives besides Mr Russeh Guerney (one of the tellers) supported Mr Mill—feeling, we suppose, that women will be a conservative element in the Constitution. Mr Bright, M? Fawcett, Afv Baines, Mr Thomas Hughes, Mr G. S. Befevre, Lord Amberley, Mr Denham, Sir G. Bowyer, Sir F. Gokismid, all voted in the minority. Mr J ulian Goldsmid and Ttf * jjp^r.qi Osborns paired °gs' nc! ' Mr Mill. -Spectator.

‘‘ W ell, Mr Jackson,” said a clergyman t~ . lv ai *° •.•uuuuj uiusi; «-/v u blessed day to you. You work hard six days, andthe seventh you come to church.” “ i es,” said Mr Jackson, “1 work hard all a r i , WJO rt ttft, ojiu lutti x tumca lU Cuui Cllj SUS me down, cocks up me legs, and thinks of nothing.”