Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Wednesday 27 March 1907, page 7
SUFFRAGIST PASSIVE
RESISTER.
REFUSES TO PAY TAKES. HER FURNITURE SOLD.
LONDON. March 25.
On the ground that the franchise has not been extended to women, and she is therefore without a vote, the widow of Sir James Steel, a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh, lately refused to pay her house and property taxes.
The authorities thereupon ordered the sale by auction of a sufficient portion of Lady Steel's household furniture to meet the, demand, of the tax collector, and the sale was held yesterday in the presence of 5,000 people.