BRITONS IN OTHER LANDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 15

BRITONS IN OTHER LANDS

NATIONALITY BY DESCENT. The British Home Secretary recently introduced a Bill to provide for the continuance, under certain conditions, of tile British nationality of successive generations of British descent born abroad. Under the existing law, British nationality by descent ends after the first generation (or in the case of persons born before 1915, the second generation) born abroad. The Bill proposes that every child born abroad of a British father shall he a British subject, if the birth of the child k at Hie time registered at a British consulate; and the child, on obtaining majority, asserts his British nationality by a declaration duly registered.

The romance of a member of the English nobility and -a simple fisher girl is the plot -basis of “Astbore,” a picture adapted from the famous song by Trotere, and which is included is Everybody's programme this week. Violet Marriot, one of England’s leading dramatic players is in the leading role, as a fisher girl who is instrumen tal in rescuing an English nobleman from shipwreck. Then there comes a romanoe into the _ lives of the two which finds its oulmination in the fates setting a happy course for them. The acting of the star is brilliant, and there are several tense situations in the picture, including the rescue of the hero by the heroic