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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7929, 19 September 1905, Page 4

"If there were not numbers of women," said a lady speaker at a meeting at Christchnrch. "who are better c|*uilHhh.l in all ways to sit in th" . House of "lb-presentaftfves than the majority of the m"ii now representing us, I should he sorry indivd for my s«»x. I'nder the present law a Maori or a naturalised Chinaman is eligible to offer himselt for eleci i(t:i. whilst the in<i>t Mined ami cultural woman is debarred."

A Milton (Otago) man.' droving fnmi (MinUm. hat I tin anxious tim«- with phosph<-ristil oats (says the Mirror). Several of his charges fell by the wayside. For four mi!'*s the dn»\vr had to lead his flork. and o.wr up live grain as he went along. Naturally there was. trouble uhen"he reiurmtl to his erty plover, and a Court case against th# owner of the oats seenml .icmineiit, but a set' lenient was airm-d iit. lecturing at St. Clair. Dunedin. the other evening. .Dr. VisiM. of the J First Cimrch. took occasion to rebuke those ulh. imagine that reli- | gion is necessarily allied to sadness i ami wo»*-ivork<M faces. lh J said : I "This sort of thing is not unknown even in Dunedin. A oi my , cowgregut ion resignul because be said , [ make j>eople laugh."- I