COLONIAL MARRIAGES.
DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh Received 12 20 a.m , May 17.
London, May 16,
The Colonial Marriage Bill was read a second time without division. Lord Elgin explained that it legalises in Britain past enl future co'ooial marriages of a deceased's wife’s sister between parties domiei : ed in the coloni-s. It was not retrospective in regard to ptoperty. There was a strong feeling in tho colonies on the subjfcs, la the interests of the Empire the grievance should be removed. Lord Halifax and Lord Salisbury denounced the Bill as a flank movement to allot the Motherland law.
Lord Strathcona and Lord James sup ported the Bill, the latter sayiDg thal Lord Lansdowne also supported it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1751, 17 May 1906, Page 2
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