TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1004, 13 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CA BLE NEWS. [eeuter’s special telegrams to the press AGENCY.] THE WAR. The Siege of Plevna. Bombay (Undated). The Czar, Archduke Nicholas, and Prince Charles, of Eoumania, with the RussianRoumanian army, are attacking Plevna. The Russian head-quarters are at Ivadenitze, between Bulgarcni and Porodu. There is no news from Mehemet and Sulieman. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, September 12. The City of New York has arrived. Further rain has fallen in the south and north-west, doing great good. Two police constables were shot by a barman at Bourke. The sub-inspector was wounded. The assassin drowned himself. Sailed —A rawata. IN TJBKPitf) VINCI AL. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] The Outward Mail. Wellington, September 13. The outward San Francisco mail will leave all the ports of the colony one day later than the original date. The Rotorua, will leave Wellington on Sunday instead of Saturday. PARLIAMENTARY. Last Night's Proceedings. Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill Read a Second Time. Wellington, September 13. Dr. Hodgkinson moved the second reading of the Deceased Wife’s Sister Marriage Bill. He quoted from Archbishop Tait, the Bishop of Ripou, Cardinal Wiseman, and others, to show that it was not opposed to the Bible, and from Mr Bright and Mr Gladstone to show that it did not prove socially injurious. It was prurient sentimentality which gave weight to the objections that [the Bill would destroy the freedom of intercourse in families. He urged the House to let reason, justice and humanity prevail against [ignorance and prejudice. Who was likely to make a better mother to the children than their aunt. Dr. Wallis opposed the Bill as a mischievous proposal, tending still further to increase the difference between English and New Zealand law. The Bill proposed to declare legal here what in England was illegal and immoral. It would tend to estrangement between the colony and the mother country, and destroy one of the dearest social relationships, without any compensating advantage resulting. It would place aunts in a false position, and have an injurious moral effect on the first wife’s children. It would make wives jealous of their sisters, and lead to impurity of thought and deed and provoke domestic dissension. It would put wives and sisters throughout the colony in a cruelly false position to gratify a few lewd wantons. Why not legalise marriage with a husband’s brother. Mr Barff thought agitation here was due principally to a number of pamphlets constantly sent to members by a society at home, where a few wealthy people were interested in having such marriages legalised. They spared no effort to attain this object. On a division, the second reading was carried by 41 to 23. The Auckland Harbour Foreshore Sale Bill was read a second time. The Canterbury Rivers Act Amendment Bill and Christchurch City Reserves Bill were further considered in committee. Progress was reported to enable to be framed. The Port Chalmers Mechanics’ Institute Reserve Bill, and the Tapanui Pastoral Agricultural Association Bill passed through committee, and were read a third time. The Local Option Bill was further considered in committee. In clause 12 the word “ majority” was struck out on a division by 22 to 21, and the word “ two-thirds ” inserted. Progress was reported. Further consideration was adjourned for a week. The House rose at 12.30 a.m.