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 have an absolute majority at the end of next year. Although still disfiguring our Statute Books, the CD. Acts are a dead letter, the Bill for their repeal has been passed several times by the House of Representatives, and they are only retained by the obstinacy of a number of the Legislative Councillors who have a life tenure of their office.

An equal standard of morality has been set up, and the conditions of divorce have been made the same for both sexes. Women may now recover damages for slander without having to prove special damage. Women have been admitted to the practice of law in our