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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13602, 22 November 1907, Page 7

J-.16 a insult'of communications which have been exchanged between the Federal Government and the Colonial Office, arising out of a gross miscarriage of justice in England, to which attention was drawn during the last Federal Parliament by Mr. Justice Higgins, then a private member of the House of Representatives, an Act.has been passed by the Imperial Legislature which; enables the Acts of the King's oversea dominions* to be accepted without formal proof. . The- new Imperial law provides, the Commonwealth Attorney-General says, that any. copy of a colonial law bearing the imprint of a Government printer shall be accepted as evidence in the British courts of'! the existence of tho law. Some few years ago an Australian charged in England with an offence connected with his wife's property was able to secure his own trial under English law because formal proof was not .\ available for. the . bench respecting the jexisv: tehee of the Married Women's Property Act. in the' Australian State of which the man was a citizen. :, , - ' , Tho purchasers of PEARS' ANNUAL aro always sure of full value 'for their money, and tho announcement; that this year's Annual will contain ■ stories ;■ by no t fewer than seven living authors of established merit will make -the demand keener than ever.: PEARS' ANNUAL will be t published ;on November 25* and a copy should bo ordered At; once, as the demand will certainly be m excess of the supply.