The Divorce Extension Bill
HEE MAJESTY BEFUSES TO SIGN.
By Electric Telegraph.— -Copyright, | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION."] Sydney, March 20.
Accompanying the intimation of the refusal of Her Majesty, to give the Royal assent to the Divorce Extension Bill was a letter from the Colonial Office, pointing out that the Queen's Advisers disclaim any intention of interfering with colonial legislation, but that they could not ignore the exceptional importance of the Bill. The letter further urges that any alterations of the law should be confined to the cases of persons domiciled in the country, in order to obviate suggestions of immorality and illegitimacy. Assent to the Bill should not be again asked till it was absolutely certain that the people at large agreed with the principles of the measure, and the Bill should be left to a succeeding Parliament to pass, after the country had been afforded an opportunity of expressing a definite opinion on the question.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 99, 22 March 1888, Page 2
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