ABSTRACT
SouTH AUSTRALIA.-,-We observe with satisfaction the excellent debate on Woman Suffrage which has taken place in South Australia. Dr. Stirling, who last year moved a resolution in favour of woman suffrage, which was agreed to without a division, has followed his action by bringing in a bill to that effect. The Consti-
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tntion Act Amendment Bill was introduced in the House of Assembly on June 16th. On July 21st Dr. Stirling moved the second reading of the bill in an admirable .speech. The bill proposed that every woman, spinster or widow, possesed of the qualifications entitling a man to vote for the Upper House, should be entitled to vote for both Hotlses. He pointed out that by this bill about one-seventh or one-eighth of the present number of voters would be added to the statistical register1 or from 4,000 to 5,000 names.
