SUFFRAGETTES' AGITATION.
TWENTY-SIX SENT TO UAOL.
London, July 2. Of the woiueu suffragists who ap ; pearcd at the Westminster Police . Court, twenty were ordered to be hound over by a security of £2O to keep the peace for a year, in default to undergo a month's imprisonment; live to he ' bound over by two sureties of £2O each to keep the peace for a year, in default three-months' imprisonment; and one to be bound over by a surety u{ £lO to keep the peace for Hix months. One was discharged. Lord Russell, in defending one of the accused, contended that their opinion! regarding the' franchise were tantamount to a religious belief, entitling ?-. them to imprisonment as first division uiisdeamants. All the defendants -elected to go to ' prison. ; AUSTRALIAN STATBIAX'S VIEW. Received July 3, 5.15 p,m. London, July 3. The University of St. Andrew bna conferred the Doetorship of Lawn on Sir Joseph C'armthers, who, in acknowledging the honor done him, stated that ex- - perience had much modified his opposi- ; (ion to the enfranchisement of women, adding that women in Australia had not won the franchise b# resorting to such antics as those at Newmarket,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 166, 4 July 1908, Page 2
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194SUFFRAGETTES' AGITATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 166, 4 July 1908, Page 2
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