The police are being utilised everywhere as collectors of names for the new electoral rolls which include all the women ju the Commonwealth. Some rather amusing experiences have been described some of them. In Sydney, the collectors often had the door banged in their} faces, with the remark, "we don't want riy of your nasty polities here." But the collectors affirm that the women seem quite keen on having their names enrolled. The new electors are left to find out their political views for themselves or take them at the bidding of relatives. There is hardly any atte pt made to give the sex political instruction except now and then a little good advies hidden away in the leading collinns of the daily papers, and as wo-mien never read leading articles, the admonitions are thrown away. A very optimistic address was given recently Sydn Ir. Bruce Smith, an enthusias-tie stifragist, embodying the mission of women as a heaven-sent boon for the purim ion of polities. But so far no practical work whatever has been done. It is quite a now experience, this adding to the' electoral rolls of a whole body who are not only politically absolutel at the same time, altogether Jess in learning their new in which £10,000 light the rou the men involved, has i inal ort Norman Campbell, his bod in a Gladstone bag He is an actor and the above is his state hogan life as a clerk in the Savings Bank here and planned a series of frauds by means of forged pass-books ter he had voluntarily resizued his posi-on "te better himself." which would have done credit to the invention of Canon Doyle; he actually was cool enough to disguise himself as a woman and present a forged cheque successfully at the bank which he had only left a few weeks before. His subsequent career included 7 years in gaol and after that he did well ay an actor and teacher of elocution in country towns. Another man, Samuel Jennings, hails from New Zealand, and successfully "operated " with valueless cheques on two lady principals of high-class girls' schools, by asserting that he was a parent with two daughters to educate. In both cases, he paid six months' fees in advance, giving a cheque in excess of the amount and receiving cheque for the change, which of course hw got away with, his own cheques prov ing valueless. The third artist named Narons when arrested for passing value-Jess cheques, owned up to everything and gave an amazingly long list of hotel Keepers all over Victoria whom he had paid for board and lodgings in valueless cheques.
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