A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
JUDGE MACDONALD AND MR.
HAMLIN.
[BY telegraph.—special CORRESPONDENT.]
Wellington, Thursday. The Post says on the subject of the Mokau Jones business: "Some rather interesting questions of privilege are likely to be raised in connection with Judge Macdonald's vindication of himself from Mr. Hamlin's charges. The Judge's letter to the Native Minister has been laid on the table of both Houses by command of the Governor. The first difficulty arising from this course of procedure is that the members of the Council are called upon to consider allegations made in the House of Representatives of which they know nothing. This is unconstitutional and impossible. Yet they cannot resent the introduction of the papers without disrespect to His Excellency. The solution of this difficulty will probably be the withdrawal of the letter by the Governor, who, of course, will be acting on the advice of his Ministers throughout. As to the production of the letter in the House, the question is raised by what right anyone outside is allowed thus" to enter into a controversy with a member speaking in his place. Such a proceeding is regarded by members as a dangerous precedent."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9099, 6 July 1888, Page 5
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