HOUSE OF LORDS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 2

HOUSE OF LORDS.

AUSTR.U.IAN AND N.Z. CARRE ASSOCIATION. LONDON. June 26. The llou-e of Lords has carried the second reading, by 00 votes to b, of Iwml Enlwistle's .Matrimonial Cause * Bill. Lord liuckmaster. in moving the second reading said the opponents ( t me Bill urged that the temptation to women to commit an art ot infidelity was far less than the temptation to men. Many men were wont to speak with confidence mi subjects of which they could know nothing. Oil what basis did they estimate the different storms of temptation by which men and women alike were swept away, lb* did not think a wife would resort to this Bill merely for a single act ol adultery.

Lord Brave moved the rejection of the Bill, opposing it’d extensions of the grounds of divorce, in order to stop its spread. He was afraid that Britain was degenerating into the condition of America, where the present state of affairs was merely ‘‘camouflaged polygamy and polyandry." Lord Birkenhead said he supported the Bill, though lie would have preferred a comprehensive, instead of a piecemeal, reform ot the divorce law. The Archbishop of Canterbury said he would vote for the Bill, simply because it was confined entirely to the dissolution of marriage on the specific ground of adultery. It it had multiplied the grounds of divorce. he would have opposed it.