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COUNTIES BILLS. DIVORCE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL. [SPECIAL TO KUMARA TIMES.] Wellixgton, September 16. Mr Seddon lost his Counties Bill No. 2, but carrie 1 Cunntics Bill No. 1. Mr Reid's Miners Rights Reduction Bill was thrown out in Committee., The. Divorce Act Amendment. Bill was carried. Messrs Wak--field, Brown, Stewart, Seddon, strongly supported the measure. It provides for any Supreme Court Judge to decide cases, in lieu of the Appeal Court, with three judges, as heretofore. The cost of proceedings now will not exceed £lO, Desertion for seven years on the part of a husband or wife is now sufficient cause for divorce, if the Upper House do not throw out the bill.
The Licensing Bill has now passed into law. The Legislative Council have appointed a committee on the Gold Duty Abolition Bill, hut the chances are against its becoming law. Tenders are ordered for blocking the Kumara sludge-channel.
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Wellington, September 14. In the House of Representatives, Mr J. B. Fisher has given notice to move that the constitution of the Legislative Council should be amended and settled upon the following basis:— (1.) The Council to consist of fifty members holding office during five years and no longer. (2.) The number now short of fifty, and all further vacancies, to be filled by election conducted upon Hare’s system. (3.) The present members of the Council to be deemed and taken to be elected for the next succeeding five years. (4.) Every nominee member resigning his office within six months from the passing of the Bill hereinafter referred to shall receive the sum of £6OO for compensation. That a Bill to give effect to the foregoing proposition be prepared by Government and introduced into Parliament during its next session. Timaku, September 13. A six-roomed wooden house and shop on the main south road was totally destroyed by fire this evening. It was owned and occupied by Mrs Hope, who states her insurances to be £2OO in the Standard,, and £3OO in the Northern Insurance, and estimates her loss at £SOO. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the candle setting fire to the curtains in one of the bedrooms upstairs.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1551, 16 September 1881, Page 2
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