NOISY SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9044, 1 February 1908, Page 5

NOISY SUFFRAGETTES.

SEVEN ARRESTS MADE. POUR SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT. Received January 31, 4.23 p.m. LONDON, January 30. A number of suffragists made a noisy demonstration before nine o'clock, to-clav, outside the houses of Mr R. B Haldane (Secretary of War), Sir Edward Gray (Foreign Secretary), Mr John Sinclair (Secretary for Scotland), Hon. L. Harnourt (Liberal M.P. for Rossendalc), Mr John Burns (President of the Local Government Board), and Mr A. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland.) The suffragists expressed extreme disgust at the fact that women's suffrage had not been mentioned in the King's Speech. I Seven arrests were made, and four of the accused were sentenced to sixTvveeks' imprisonment each. DEPUTATION OF SUFFRAGETTES. MR ASQUITH'S REPLY. SUFFRAGE BILL IMPOSSIBLE THIS SESSION. Received January 31, 9.29 p.m. LONDON, Janaury 31. The Hon. 11. H. Asquith informed a deputation from the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies, headed by Mrs Henry Fawcett, and Lady Francis Balfour, that the question of women's suffrage was not prominently before the electorates at the last election, and the Government were unable to sacrifice any urgent measures entrusted to thtm fur the purpose of initiating such a great change. The introduction of a bill dealing with the subject into this Parliament was unjustified, even if the Cabinet were unanimous on the question, which they were not.