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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 523, 25 October 1890, Page 2

The Rangiora Standard puts the female suffrage question in a very forcible light. In spite of the witticisms levelled at petticoated legislation (says oar contemporary) woman suffrage is almost a universal fact. The anomaly of refusing a vote to a woman in a country over which a woman rules is too ridiculous for even the most bigoted o! Conservatives, and the absurdity of permitting every drunken larrikin or unednca’ed chawbacon to have a voice in the election of his rulers simply because he wears the •viriliSy and of refusing the same privilege to such women as Frances Power Cobbe, Frances E. Williard, or the late Lydia Becker, has struck every thinking man, not only of our own, but of every other civilised land. In this New Zealand of ours, as in every other young country, the women of the family are in everything but u main strength and stupidity,” the equals of the men. The girls enjoy the same education as the boys, and after their school days are over, the intellectual progress of the mainly rests in their handSi