Important Decision Rendered by Privy Council London, Oct. 15.
A judgment of far-reaching implication was given to-day by the Judicial Committee of the Privy il, the highest tribunal appeals from all parts of the Empire, which decided that women are eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate, The appeal arose in connection with the interpretation of the words qualified persons" in the British North America Act. The Supreme Court of Canada had previously cided that these did not includs females.
The decision of the Judicial Cémmittee of the Privy Coupeil is gen erally welcomed here as a recogni tion of women's rights and is teas encouragement for the jon of becrosses in their own right to the House of Lords, which has hitherto denied them entry.—Reuter:
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