DAVEY'S PETITION AGAINST MR SUTTON.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5544, 22 November 1879, Page 3

DAVEY'S PETITION AGAINST MR SUTTON.

OUR OW CORRESPONDENT THREATENED ■ .V-.. iWITII ARREST, I JIR COItNFORD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, i (from our own correspondent.) • Wellington, 1 21. -- On the meeting of the Native Affairs .Committee .to-day, -the Chairman (Mr Hamlin) referred to the fact that certain newspapers (the Hawke's Bay Herald ( and Lyttelton limes) had committed a breach of privilege by publishing from their correspondents information relative to the proceedings of the Committee, and enjoined secrecy upon all present. It &\ipears that Mr S.utton went to the Speaker and drew, his attention to the fact of the publication, when probably tlie Speaker ' would iJiave issued his warrant to bring ' your correspondent before the bar of the House, but for a statement made to him to the effect that Mr Sutton. himself had <■ given information for. publication to. .the correspondents relative to the. case. The only witness examined to-day was Mr Cornford, of Napier, Mr Sutton's own solicitor. His" 'manlier '"was' extremely nervous.-, „- I Ha ve- not yet succeeded in■getting'detaiis of hise'vidence, but have it on-th© authority-of-persons who heard it, ..that,. it.; was of a .very damaging nature/ and that in cbiilection ' with' it the» Committee will probably rijake a presentment to the Hous.e.^. The. examination- of Worgan ■will be .continued on. Monday. Mr ./.oseph:Hamiin, ; brother. gf the, Chairman, and Mr Sutton have yet to. be> 6xa,mined. •' ■ The committee's report, which is'^looked , ' forward to with interest, is expected to bo • '^eady about the middle of the week. . ; ■■•>;■ ..'.,'. '■''■' r '■• '';-■ '■;' •^■■■■.-' Later.:"' ■ The evidence. to- day 'disclosed that some ; , §ightcen months ago Rcira Noinoi" and lief , Jiusband, Wi Raugirangi^ were parties to i . a suit to recover £7000, the value of the 350 acres alleged to have been promised i as a reserve by Mr Sutton. Kora, it was

sfoed^was OTM^iMo MrhObrhford'-s, office without. iihe j .lEnqwle3e'e of her liuK-~ bind, or^n^r'^oifdi^f^fe.W^&f K^sT Tie only persons present besides Rora were Mr Cornford,, Mr, Siitton, an&i'Jfche interpreter, Mr'Jdaiaii Hamliri.' 'effort w&s^made to, induce, her to sign a document Setting forth thai' she had no caiise oij action^ but unsuccessfully ;' The object whs thought td be to 1 obtain the j document in order to pro.duee t it upoii tM trial of ttie case, as 7 evidence fact, but' as the ■■JudgeSfdismissed the case iipona point of lajvv the guestiq'n.of^fatot did not- arise. The committee .did,- not succeed to-day in eliciting .whethei 1 inph'ey was offered itora Njoiribi to .induce 'her' to sign 1 this 1 jtaperj but Mr Hamlin's evidence is ' expected $6 throw' light on the' question. 'Mi?; Corn-: fotd, in giving his evidence, was at the time, so- nervous, as to excite marked attention and form, the subject of comment.