BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8519, 26 August 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

DECEASED W<iEE'S. SISfER BILL Received Aaig.ust-25,-i4i52 p.m. iKDNDON r tAagust24. The Deceased Wife?s Sister Bill passed through committee in the House of LordsThe Earl of Shaftesbury moved an amendment &at the Mil should be retrospectiveLord Loreisirn: '*i¥»u purge the parents if they .marry .again, but are unmerciful to dhe .children, who are blameless.'' The amendment \wasafiaaily withdrawn. An amendment was : tnoved by the Archbisbci? -of -Canterbury prohibiting the Asgliean clergy at such marriages. The Marquis «sf ;Lansdorar«e warned the House of >the . serious responsibility it would impose .uj*m itself if the parties to these marriages were restricted to the Segist-rarcstOffice. After a debsie, .the was negatived by fiQS .votestto 65. Lord Tweedmmith's amendment, ; making it optioasE£or ; a to ; allow such marriages ,in ; hjscehurch, v was adopted. A BY-ELATION. ■ Received August '3s, :l£&r?£LONDON, August:£s. '■Owing to Captain F. W..;F.£lerrvey, the sitting memlier for JBgxy St. | 'Jlii&ands, succeeding to asrtbe Marquis of Bristol, a -tion to fill the vacancy aras bqld,rfKid j resulted as follows: ! Hon. W. Guinness, Conesscwa;ty& - •-• '&s& \W. B. Yates, Liberal ...... Ml _ _ j