HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 65, 15 August 1885, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

: . ' . !•. ,'■■■ Saturday. - : • .-. PBoaRESs of 'bills*;-'' ■/.«, Mr Stewart moved— That the amend? ments' made m the , School Gommittees Election Bill, with 'the exception, of tse clause' providing that the mi.niuium of sc\ool age .be five years, Was agreed to. The New Plymouth Exchanges Cpm-; .. pletion Act Ameticlmentßill, Bankruptcy. Act Amendment Bill, and .Property Law Consideration Amendment Bill, wero read a second time. ■'... , . , v : Cproner's Act Amendment Bill, .providing tor six person's constituting a coroner's jury, passed through Committee with Amendment. , Th«\ Divorce Matrimonial Causes Act" Amendment Bill was committed, on clause 2, extending meaning of incestuous adultery. - . : ;,/ /■ Mr Stewart moved, to strike out the Words, ■" Her Bister." Agreed to. Mr -^amuel moved, a -new Clause pro. . vidirig either husband or wife could petition for a divorce; if .separated for fbur years| if either was conyicted of indictaljle.offence, and served not less than four, years imprisonment of it, oreither certified insaixei , ,*. v .■ '■...■_■'"• . • ■ After some discussion the Clause was negatived}.' ..,. ■■' • •; ■■■':,. '. r ' ■ Mx\ Stewart moved that incompatability " Temp"er,'' as grounds for separation. . / Progress- was reported, and the House rose , at 1.40 ,^;m, „ : ;---' ''.> : ' .'•"';"..