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 and the Hon. C. C. Bowen. The Government was again charged with insincerity, many Councillors asserting that the Bill had been sent up for the express purpose of being killed, the Premier not daring to oppose Womanhood Suffrage in an elected Assembly. Amendment after amendment was proposed and negatived, and the position of affairs was frequently most intricate. Many Councillors voted in a contrary direction to their opinions, some with the object of killing the Bill, and so getting rid of the hated Suffrage question, and some with the object of preserving this feature of the Bill at almost any cost. The Bill, however, emerged from the ordeal without serious loss,