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 would disastrously affect the financial equilibrium of the Colony and would shatter its credit in London.

It is pleasant to reflect that peace of mind has been restored to those venerable Senators, for the past eight years have shown a record of uninterrupted prosperity. We have no unemployed, taxation has been reduced, the annual budgets have shown large surpluses, and the credit of the Colony in London stands higher than ever before.

It must, however, be admitted that to those ultra-enthusiasts who believed that all virtue and right-mindedness was concentrated in woman, and that the casting of her vote would