Women in Politics New Zealand June 15, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE JUNE 15, 1895.

Women In Politics In New Zealand.

The enfranchised women of New Zealand are on the job with both eyes open, and no mistake. Truly, when woman is about she don't let you forget it.

At a meeting of the Auckland Women's Liberal League a resolution approving of old age pensions was carried, and also one approving of the scheme of the Canterbury Progressive Liberal Association, and another in favour of equalising school teachers' salaries.

And yet again -

At a meeting of the Women's Political League a resolution was passed requesting the General Assembly to pass legislation of such a character as would place the sexes on an equality as regards breaches of marriage bond and divorce, and also to increase the power of the police in dealing with the social evil and houses of ill-fame.

And yet again, thirdly, as they say at church, a Christchurch message says -

At a meeting of the Women's Political Association, it was resolved to join with the Liberal organisations in inviting the Premier to deliver an address in Christchurch.

The secretary was instructed to press upon the Government the necessity for the adoption of the strongest measures to prevent the immigration of Chinese and other Asiatics.

It was also resolved that the attention of the Government be called to the infectious nature of consumption, or tuberculosis, and to the large number of people coming to the colony suffering from such disease.

Sporting.

BICYCLE RACING CALENDAR.

July 7 – Hospital Sports Carnival, Exhibition Grounds.

July 13 – League's Championship Carnival, Exhibition Grounds.

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ZIMMERMAN, the world's champion cyclist, leaves the United States on the 8^th August en route to Australia.

FRED Passey, Queensland's champion draughts player, is going to write a book on that interesting game.

THE great French race for 8000 metres, the Grand Prize of Paris, was won on Sunday last by a horse named Andree.

DURING the recent South Australian Jockey Club meetings the sum of £82,972 10s. passed through the totalisator.

THE Boomerang Football Club, winners of last season's premiership, downed a representative Toowoomba team last Saturday by 17 points to 3.

R. W. LEWIS, the cyclist, at a public trial in Sydney managed to break all previous Australian records for one mile, covering the distance in 2 min. 8.1.5 secs.

A MATCH for the chess championship of Australia, between Messrs. Wallace and Essling, for £25 a side, is being played at the Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne.

HOSPITAL Sports Carnival takes place at the Exhibition Grounds, Brisbane, July 6. The programme comprises 4 cycling races and 5 pedestrian events.

THE death is announced of Mr. Gilbert Hore, aged 27, the Adelaide champion tennis player. The deceased was a scholar of no mean degree. Cause of death, consumption.

THE London Daily Telegraph has opened a 1s. subscription list, and headed it with 2000 shillings, for the purpose of presenting the veteran cricketer, W. G. Grace, with a testimonial for his prowess in the cricket field.

IT is stated by a South Brisbane alderman that gambling has extended even to the churches. He had heard that in one church not 100 miles from Brisbane the boys who went round with the collection plates actually had a sort of sweep on who should get round first. “Tattersall's” and Oxenham had better look out.

THE following letter reached this office on Saturday last :-

ED WORKER – I beg to notify you that I hereby accept your challenge about finding a man to run a horse a mile, and will be ready, at any appointed time to meet you and put up a deposit. The amount of wager can be arranged later. Anxiously waiting your reply, - Yours &c., J. M'INTOSH, Annie street, Paddington. The WORKER regrets to say that the man who was willing to run any horse a mile has back down, and this journal therefore invites any sporting athlete to take up Mr. M'Intosh's offer.

DESCRIBING one of the races on the off-day of the Thompson River Grassfed Meeting, the Central Standard says; “It was really a very clever trick, and one that 'beat' the best of them present, for a horse which wins two advertised hack races on the first and second days of the meeting, the second carrying a penalty of 7lbs., and then, on the off-day, to compete in what was styled a match against a horse which ran nowhere in the two events abovementioned, and loses the race, to the consternation and surprise of everybody. It was really, as stated before, a very clever trick; but, still, sufficiently clever to warrant their never again being permitted to run on the Longreach course. The match was undoubtedly got up for the ostensible purpose of making money at the expense of the public. It was pure and simple downright robbery.”