The Divorce Bill
The Lyttelton Times warmly ap--1 proves of the Divojco Amendineufc Bill pointed out that its great feature, and the one that should uot he lightly re garded by the women of the country, is the proposal to demand the same fidelity from a husband that has always been required from a wife It has too long been a reproach against the men of civilised nations lhac they have made one law for themselves aud another for their women. Few people will, it thiuks, envy the notoriety obtained by two or three of the Legislative Councillors by their attempts to continue this monstrous injustice, but if Mr RlacGregor's Bill should be cast aside the shameful blot ■ will remain upon our statute book for s at least another year. It does not sug--3 gest for a moment that women, in r ordeir to purify ther own home, should 8 imperil the sanctity of the marriage I tie, but it believes that if the Bill were ' sent down to the popular branch of . the Legislature, it would be amended o in such a way that it could be passed c with the approbation of the church, as 3 well as with the warm approval of the 0 people of the colony.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 56, 31 August 1894, Page 2
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211The Divorce Bill Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 56, 31 August 1894, Page 2
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