BRITISH POLITICS.
COLONIAL MARRIAGES BILL. SECOND READING CARRIED. LONDON, May 16. Tne Colonial Marriages Billgwas read a second time in the House of Lords, division. Lord Elgin explained that the Bill legalises marriage <vith a deceased wife's sister between parties domiciled in the colonies. The measure wna not retrospective in regard to properly. The Minister said there was strong feeling in the colonies on the subject, and in the interests of the Empire the grievanoe should be removed. Lora Halifax, President of the English Church Union, aud Lord Salisbury denounced the bill us a flank movement to alter the law ot the Motherland. Lord Strathcona and Lord James of Hereford supported the measure, the latter saying that Lord Lansdovne also supported it. VIVISECTION. LONDON, May 16. A Royal Commission has been appointed to make enquiries into the working of the vivisection law. (A vigorous opposition to "iviseotion has been carried on in England for some time. The National Anti-Vivisection Society, whiob advocates the total abolition of the scientific torture of animals, has been particularly prominent in the agitation).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 18 May 1906, Page 5
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178BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 18 May 1906, Page 5
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