POLITICAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE. By Telegraph—Own Correspondent. Wellington, Last Night. The present law makes it a ground for divorce where the respondent to a suit "is a lunatic or person of unsound mind, and has been confined as such in an asylum for periods of not less in the aggregate than ten years, within: the twelve years immediately preceding the filing of the. petition." and where "the- respondent is 'unlikely to recover from such unsoundness of mind." The amending Bill, introduced by the Minisr ter of Internal Affairs in the Legislative Council yesterday, will reduce the period under this section to seven years. .

PRIVATE BURIAL GROUNDS. The Cemeteries Bill, introduced hy the Minister of Internal Affairs in the Legislative Council, makes provision fort the setting aside as private burial grounds of any land in fee simple where the bodies of deceased persons have been buried prior to the passing of the Bill. Such private burial grounds are to be managed by trustees, whose appointment is to he notified in the Ga« zette.

MEIKLE'S APPEAL. John James Meikle is again petitioning Parliament for compensation in respect of his imprisonment for alleged sheep-stealing. He asks that the original -vote of £SOOO, placed on the estimates for compensation («nd reduced to £2500) be paid—that is to say, a further sum of £2500. Petitioner states that he lost alVhe possessed through hit, wrongful imprisonment, and asks for compensation for the weary twenty-five' years of misery he has had to' endure.