MARRIAGE WITH! DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11511, 18 March 1905, Page 7

MARRIAGE WITH! DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

MELBOURNE, March 1

, The secretary of the British Empire League has written to the Prime Minister on the subject of harmonising the English with the colonial marriage law in respect to marriage with a deceased wife's sister. The letter informs Mr Reid that* on January 18 the Council of the League, presided over by Lord Derby, passed unanimously the following motion, proposed by Lord Strathcona. and seconded by Sir Thomas Fuller, Agent-General for Cape Colony: — "This Council now" resolves to give that hearty support to such action as shall secure tbat the legitimate offspring of marriages in one part of the Empire shall be legitimate' in other parts, and expresses the hope that the Prime Minister will at some convenient date give his favourable consideration to a request from a dsputation, which will be authorised' to submit to him the views of the Council upon this important question."

Two well- known opponents of any change in English marriage laws, namely, Viscount Knutsford and Lord Hugh Cecil, ST.P., have actually accepted the Council's resolution, which augurs well for action by the Balfour Government.