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MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

LORD STRATHCONA'S BILL READ THE SECOND TIME. ROYAL PRINCES VOTE IN ITS FAVOUR. irUESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 30, 9.10 a.m.) LONDO-s, 29th May. Lord Strathcona's measure for the recognition in England of marriages with deceased wives' sisters solemnised in the colonies, has been read a second time in the House of Lords by a majority of 116 to 31. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Connaught, who only on rare occasions exercise their legislative privileges as Peers, were present, and in the division voted in favour of the Bill. The Marquis of Salisbury (Prime Minister), the iiarl of Halsbury (Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of York (Right Hon. 'and Moat Rev. Dr. Maclagan), and the Bishop of Manchester (Right Rev. Dr. Moorhouse) voted with tho minority. Earl Can-in gt on, formerly Governor of New South Wales, in the course of the debate, cited the case ot the Rev. G. Poynder, a Church of England minister in Victoria, who was recently suspended for twelve months by the Bishop of his diocese because he had married the sister of his late wife.

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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 5

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MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 5

MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 5