PRIVILAGE OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7949, 25 August 1891, Page 5

PRIVILAGE OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

(PEE 33 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) ■■': t V. NAPIER, August 2^.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day a> case against the Hon. J. D. Ormond for breach of the' Babbit Act. was called; oni The complaint, was that Mr Ormond had neglected to eradicate rabbits front hie run af WallingfordJ The Clerk, pi Court, Captain Forater, said the enmrnona had been sent to Wellington for service 'ba Mr Ormond ■'but he would not aceepi it, pHading privUege daring the tims the Legislative ; CounoiF - watf in !; wasion. Mr Cornfordj, who appeared lot the Rabbifc Bfeard, e»Td "tbli'-'-was a matte| that waaaltogether within the disaretion of the-Odtnt. The vfe# onebf mia» demeanour < and -wm « criminal proceeding. The word misdemeanour was applied to all those offences for which the law had not provided a particular name.., question was' for the Court to consider, but he thought if Mr Ormond had accepted service and a applied for ■an adjournment j that was the proper course for him to have taken. The K.M. perused the Act under which membere were privileged In'jbhii aspect, and said it eeemed to him that misi deraoanonr wae an indictable ofEenbe^ ''One ,on which a person could bo committed for trial. The present cliarge appeared;to be neither felony noi; misdemeanour, but he ' thought the conetabTe should have handed the 'summons to Mr Ormond and have done wta it. Mr Corpford cojneurred*; Itwai eventually decided to adjourn the matter for a fortnight, the summons to be re* isjttied.", ,, ,' .■'.. ■■".' -■• .'■ ' .