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 made, necessitating an immense amount of correspondence, to enlist active sympathy for the movement, and not without success. During the session of 1889, Sir John Hall paid a short visit to Christchurch and discussed the situation with Mrs Sheppard. A comparison of the information possessed by each, elicited the fact that of the members of the House, thirty-three were in favour of womanhood suffrage, twenty-seven were in favour of enfranchising only such women as were ratepayers or householders, and the remainder were either doubtful, or were decidedly opposed to woman suffrage in any form. It was evident that if the support of the twenty-seven who