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Outlines of Women's Franchise
the district of Wairau. This district was then part of the province of Nelson, but was afterwards formed into the province of Marlborough. Had Mr Gilbert, the witty librettist, known more of early colonial life, he would have been aware of numbers of able and many-sided public officers whose varied duties quite outrivalled those of the famous Pooh Bah. Dr. Müller held the position of Resident Magistrate for 22 years, and during the early part of that period set up Customs, Postal, and indeed every other department of Government, filling, at one time, no fewer than thirteen offices himself.
For some years before leaving England the injustice of the law
