SUMMER SALE AT G. H. STILES’.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 4

SUMMER SALE AT G. H. STILES’.

The militant suffragettes in the Old Country get very little for their pains except doubtful notoriety and varying terms of imprisonment. Their tactics do not appeal to the majority of New Zealand women, who adopt more peaceful means to secure their ends. And what might cause the window smashers considerable surprise; the pacific methods of their New Zealand sisters usually prove most effective. Dear knows what would happen if an army of London suffragettes invaded Foxton during the holding of G. H. Stiles’ Stock Reduction Sale. It is pretty certain that their march would come to a sudden halt opposite the windows of the White House and that a flank movement would be hiade to investigate the bargains displayed therein. Then the excitement would commence. Those voteless women could no more resist attacking the bargain citadel than they could refrain from throwing stones at Mr Lloyd George, The bargain that fill every department to overflowing will quickly diminish in volume when these eager quick-eyed shoppers get down to business. Men folk, too. will find it hard to resist the temptation to join their wives, mothers and sisters in an expedition to this Sale ot Sales. Money saving will be the fashion in Foxton, while Stiles’ Sale asts,—Advt.

customs. As an earnest of her desire she is attending the Aramoho school.

A Taratahi (Carterton) resident related to a neighbour that he had in a stoat’s nest among a collection of egg shells, bones and feathers, a couple of heads of eels, says the News. The neighbour accepted the egg shells, and feathers, but mentally made a reservation as to the fish heads. Recently, however, as he was catching his horse near the bank of a creek he saw a large stoat dragging something along the ground, and on going towards it saw that the stoat had an eel, about eighteen inches long, by the neck. How the stoat caught the eel was a mystery, but that he had it was a palpable fact. It would appear that the stoats are trying a change of diet, and find fish, eggs and poultry more j.o their taste than the rabbits they were imported to exterminate.

Mr Fisher M.P., speaking at Auckland the other day said that some people thought no sooner would the Massey Party be in power than miracles would happen, that reforms would be all passed at once, and that changes would immediately take place. That, he did not need to remind them, was a mistaken idea altogether, for no party in the world was able to carry out changes, no matter how necessary they were, all at once. The party had put through some of its reforms last session, but if it had not done everything its supporters must not be in too much haste to review the progress made as not being fast enough.

A Carterton settler was visiting Wellington last week, and went out to Lyell Bay (says an exchange). He was on a seat there next to a gentleman with whom he presently got into conversation. The Cartertonian remarked on the changes in and about Wellington in the last fifty years or so. The other remark el, “You must be an old-settler; what ship did you come out in?” “The Oliver Lang,” said Wairarapa. “Why,” said the other, “I too came out in the Oliver Lang.” And it proved that the two bad been shipmates, and remembered each other’s families quite well, although they had not seen one another personally for over fifty years. J

Exactly what position a woman in England holds to-day is rather difficult to determine, according to Miss Margaret Hodge, a suffragette, who is now on a visit to New Zealand with a view to gaining knowledge advantageous to the cause in England. In Auckland the other evening, she said that one Magistrate had decided that women were not “persons.” Another in forbidding them entrance to a law court, had held that women were not “the public.’' Mr Asquith, in refusing to accept deputations and petitions, affirms that they are not “subjects of the King.” A clergyman recently called the suffragettes “objectionable .bipeds,” remarked the speaker, amid laughter. “And until we can obtain other terms, I suppose the women of England must be content to remain ‘bipeds’ for some time to come !”