A CLERICAL DISPUTE.
OVER A PRETTY WEDDING
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, January 28. The Bishop of London denies the position taken up by Dr. Tristram. It is possible that the difficulty will reach the Law Courts.
[Div Tristram, who is Chancellor of thd Diocese of London,, has been issuing marriage licenses in his own name, and he has ignored an instruction from the Bishop of London that no license for a marriage with a divorced person, or of a person:with his deceased wife's sister, is to be issued without the Bishop's personal assent in writing. Dr. Tristram, who married Mrs Pretty (a lady who eloped with a young man to New Zealand and was afterwards divorced) to a solicitor in the Chapel Royal, has told the Bishop that he is,hound _to observe the law of the-Kingdom.] -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10151, 30 January 1911, Page 5
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138A CLERICAL DISPUTE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10151, 30 January 1911, Page 5
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