THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

A PILGRIMAGE TO LONDON.

SERVICE IN ST. PAUL'S

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, Mav 10.

The 'National Woman's Suffrage Union is arranging for a pilgrimage to London of seventeen processions from all parts of the country. The processionists will carry out propaganda work en routs and will attend a service in St. Paul's on July 27th.

FURTHER OUTRAGES

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, May 10. Suffragettes cut the seats and fittings of a taxi-cab in which they were riding, doing damage to the extent of £lO. A clockwork bomb and suffragette literature were found in the sorting department of the Reading Post Offio3. They were addressed to dn of ficial of the Town Hall. A bomb was found in the waitingroom of the Lime street station, Liverpool. It was inscribed, "Votes for Women I" A taper was attached, but it had flickered out before reaching the powder.

THE CONSPIRACY CHARGES

(Received Mav 10. 8 a.m/> LONDON, May 9. At the hearing of the conspiracy case in which seven women (including Mrs Drummond) acid a man namxi Clayton, a consulting analyst, are charged with conspiring with Mrs Pankhurst and others to damage property, a detective gave evidence that he had found a lotter containing the suggestion of a plot against the House of Lords by getting a Suffragette typist a position there. Despite the kgal prohibition, the National Labour rress, Mancheser, printed the newspaper The Suffragette.

PLAIN TO DODGE THE SERMON. HOUSE BURNED. (Received Mav 10, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. The Women's Social and Political Union is experiencing difficulty in hiring public rooms. The Suffragette leaders suggest that all members of the Unioia leave places of warship which they attend on. tho 11th before the sermon as a protest against the way in which the Churches have treated the Suffrage question. A Suffragette burnt "Oakley," a large empty housa at Barrow-in-Fur-ness.

HOUSE BURNED

£IO,OOO DAMAGE. (Retired Thi« Morning, 12.5 o'clock.) LONDON, May 11. Farrington Hall, the Dundee residence of Mr Henry McGrady, a former Lord Provost, was burned in six places simultaneously. . The Suffragettes are believed to be responsible for the outrage. The damage is estimated at £lO,000.