PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.
(From our own Correspondent )
Wellington, Ootober 21.
Very few members are now about the Parliament Buildings, most of them having returned to their homes, or making a tour on the northern railway lines. Ministers are busily engaged going through the estimates item by item, but it is stated that they are finding some difficulty in perfecting a soheme of retrenchment that will suit the views of tbe various localities. Consternation prevails in theGovernment buildings, tho Civil Servants being exceedingly anxious as to how tho proposals of the Government will affect themselves.
More Bills are now circulated, among others being Mr Merchant's Animals Protection Act Amendment Bill, the main features of which I wired to you when the Bill was first introduced. Mr Samuel's Bill to amend the aw of divorce is fche same Bill introduced laßt year. Ifc provides that married persons may petition for a dissolution of marriage on grounds of desertion, drunkenness, neglect, cruelty, sentence to imprisonment for seven years and upwards, violent assault, and adultery, or incurable insanity in either parent, the divorcee to be at liberty to marry again within the space of three calendar months after the decree is made absolute.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 311, 21 October 1887, Page 2
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