GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

A FRANCHISE BILL. LONDON, June 9

A Bill which would enfranchise women at the age of 21 was stubbornly resisted in the House of Commons. Attempts were made to raise th.e age to 25 or 29. Sir Frederick Bianbury declared when the present Enfranchisement Act passed, it was declared women did not want to sit in Parliament.

“ We women did not say so,” interposed Lady' Astor. “ English women did,” retorted Sir Frederick Banbury, referring to the first woman member’s American birth. Lady Astor was described in the House yesterday by Colonel Arthur Shoo as a “ capricious and illogical but charming woman.”

Colonel Shee suggested 29 as a. voting age, by stating, amid thte laughter of the House) that earlier than that woman were ‘‘ captivating capricious, fascinatingly futile, irresistibly irrational, ingeniously inexperienced, politically pusillanimous, and wholly and charmingly incomprehensible,” and therefore he did not want woman to have her nose in politics until she knew what she was about.

DEATH AT 105 YEARS

LONDON, June 9

Betsy Arnold, 105 years old at least, but who claimed to have remembered the Battle of Waterloo,(fought in 1815). is dead at Bodyngyn. She drank whisl'y and smoked a pipe all her life. Betsy was born in Skibbereen, County (fork. Her husband, still alive, is many years her junior. The ancient Irish woman just before her death avowed her belief irr hard work, a drop oi whisky, and a puff at a pipe. Her diet consisted mainly of plenty of potatoes and* vegetables'and 11 cabbage water.”

dissatisfied republicans,

(Received this day at 11.25 a.id.;. NEW YORK, June 14

Leaders of the Progressive forces .'n the Republican party are dissatisfied with Mr Harding’s They ae inaugurating a third party for the purpose of bolding a convention on 10th. July to nominate their own candidate. It is reported that thirty States are ready to support this movement.