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Mrs Marion Hatton. Mrs Hatton was a woman of unusual energy and great determination, and threw herself into the work with extraordinary vigour. In Dunedin, too, Mr H. S. Fish, the arch-opponent of Woman Suffrage in the House of Representatives, this year found his Waterloo. An able man, with great pugnacity, Mr Fish had been most successful in obtaining civic honours, and this year aspired to the Mayoral chair. His candidature was strongly supported by the liquor trade and the opponents of the enfranchisement of women. A coalition was formed of the Franchise League and the various temperance organisations to oppose him, and after a most