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 towards women was impressed on the mind of Mrs Müller. It was therefore hardly to be wondered at that, living in New Zealand in the epoch-making fifties, and associating with such nation builders as Sir William Fox, Alfred Saunders, Sir David Monro, Sir E. W. Stafford, and Alfred Domett, Mrs Müller should feel that in this new land women, as well as men, should be free.

Quietly and unobtrusively, in frequent conversation with those early law makers, Mrs Müller suggested the equity of the enfranchisement of women. But while for the greater part they listened with courteous apathy, there were some—Sir David Monro among them—who were