Marriage with a DeCEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
(B- Telegraph.) /"UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.} Wellingtom, September 12. At the annual session of the Church of England Diocesan Synod; the" President, the Bishop of Wellington; m his opening address said he could not but regard the present education system but one as likely m years .no come to be prejudicial to the interests of the colony. He condemned the Act of Parliament which legalised marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and hoped no clergyman holding a parish m this district would celebrate the ceremony. One clergyman had consulted him recently as to such a marriage, and he had advised him not to solemnise it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 241, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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110Marriage with a De-CEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 241, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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