MARRIAGE OF THE UNFIT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 5

MARRIAGE OF THE UNFIT.

REGULATION IN VICTORIA. • ADVICE FROM DAKOTA.

(Sydney Sun Cables.) MELBOURNE, June 14. Scoffs have not deterred the Victorian Board of Health from its crusade against the marriage of the unfit. The board has sought a new law providing that parties to a marriage shall be compelled to produce certificates of good health and a clean constitution.

The proposal was some time ago greet-, ed with laughter and scorn. The board has, however, affirmed its principle, and initiated a campaign for its adoption. Its latest move is to write to the authorities of the' Stgte'of Dakota. U.8.A., for information as to the working of a similar regulation there. The American measure is drastic, forbidding the marriage within the State of any “common drunkard, habitual criminal, epileptic, feebleminded person, idiot, insane person, or anyone who has been affected by hereditary insanity, pulmonary tuberculosis, in any advanced stage, or any contagious or venereal disease.” It insists that bride and bridegroom shall show an affidavit that they are qualified to marry. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. NO WHISTLING ALLOWED. PROVIDING RECREATION FOR WORKERS. LONDON, June 17. The question of Sunday observance was discussed yesterday at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference. The Bishop of Croydon feared that parents were. making mistakes in H,he training of their children. He brought up his family so strictly that he punished them if he found them whistling on Sunday. The Vicar- of Wye considered that it would probably be far better if young men and women were to play games on Sunday instead of idly loafing about—that was if due care were taken to eliminate commercialism from the sport. A resolution of the conference declared that recreation which the workers needed should as far as possible be provided on days of the week other than Sunday., VANISHING RELATIONS. FATHER’S EXCITING CHASE. USE FOR COMMONWEALTH BANK. LONDON, June 17. At the Tower Bridge Police Court, London, to-day, a man named Charles Daldry, his wife, Ada, and his brother, Thomas, were charged with stealing £2OO and also a £SO Bank of England note, from their father.

The two were clearing out on the liner Ballarat, . and were hound for Sidney, when they were arrested.

A detective ■ who gave evidence in the case said that the father missed £4OO and some deeds from a drawer' in his bedroom, and he chartered a tug and had the Ballarat intercepted. When arrested Thomas Daldry admitted taking tho ; money and in the woman’s handbag.... were two Commonwealth Bank deposit receipts, each for £2OO. The accused were remanded on bail.

LURED FROM HOME. CANADIAN GIRL’S FATE. CAPTURED BY WHITE SLAVERS. VANCOUVER June 17. Canon Hague has given Canada cause for some uneasiness and much heated discussion. Speaking before the Anglican Synod at Toronto last night, he declared that'an average number of 200 girls had been missed from the city in the last few years. Church organisations had been making inquiries, and had learnt that these girls had been lured away to become white slaves. ‘ STAMPEDE IN A CIRCUS. ELECTRIC LIGHT FAILS. PANIC-STRICKEN SPECTATORS. LONDON, June 17. • The safety-valve of an engine that was driving the electric lighting plant of a circus in Brussels suddenly developed a fault on Saturday night, with the result that the huge tent in which the performance was taking place was plunged in darkness. The spectators became panic-stricken, and. in the stampede that followed fifty persons were seriously, and many others slightly, injured.

UPROARIOUS WEDDING. UNINVITED GUESTS. GETTING MARRIED IN TYRONE. LONDON, June 17. Offended at not having been invited to a wedding at Fivemile Town, Tyrone, seven neighbouring farmers threw large stones through the window of the house where the ceremony -was taking place. Then they fastened the front door with wire, climbed on the roof, shoved over the brick chimneys, trampled on the garden,, wrecked the fowlhouse and made a bonfire of the debris.

The wedding party was compelled to take refuge in the bedrooms.

OPPOSITION ATTACK.

GOVERNMENT SAVED BY LADY.

LONDON, Juno 17. The Opposition attempted to catch the Government napping last night, and called for a division while Supply was under consideration. The Government's majority was only 36. It is rumoured that the intention of the Opposition, to catch the Government on the nop was betrayed by a lady. - FORTUNE FOR A PICTURE. ROMNEY SOLD FOR £41,000. LONDON, June 17. At ChHstie’s sale-rooms in London yesterday Romney’s portrait of “Anne, Lady Delapole,’’ was bought by DuVeens’, the famous Bond Street of art and curio dealers, for £41,370. This is a record for the sale of a picture by an English artist. The canvas measures 94in; by 48in. ■'