TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 150, 13 October 1876, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

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WiMXtiVtvros;, Friday. MR. BARTON AND THE CHIEF

JUSTICE.

Mr. O. E. Barton appeared before the Chief Justice this morning, to receive- sentencefor contempt t-f Court. His Honor, after pointing out the gravity of the offence of Mr. Barton, and how severely it was .in the power of the Crown to punish such offences, then discharged the rate without inflicting any penalty. THE GOVERNOR'S DESPATCHES. A ffttw of the papers laid on the table of the House last night, fcy command, contain* : First, a copy of the despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of State, dated June, 187l>, concerning a letter from Sir George Grey. The Governor shows by incontrovertible facts that Sir George. Grey's apprehensions about the bombardment of Auckland originated with himself, in IS7S, in a conversation with Mr. Dargavttte, of Auckland, long before the Abolition Bill was thought of. He says : " Sir George Grey, when he wrote tJiia tetter, must hare been puvt'eetty awajre of the fact that the Government of a Colony have no control whatever over tier Majesty's Forces, and that tliey could, under no circumstance.-*, hu brought into action except through the intervention of the Governor himself. To suppose, therefore-, that it could be possible for Her Majesty's ships to- be used for the purpose of cannonading the City of Auckland, he must, in the first place, have presumed that 1 had entirety loat my sonses before I cont'd be induced to make snett ft requisition to the officer in command of Hur Majesty's ships - r and in the second place, that that officer must have been I immalty mad to comply with it. As to the \ ulti'it vires point of view of Che Abolition Bill, the Governor says that the Legislature has power und>-;v the authority of thy Imperial Parliament to make the change proposed by the Ab«>tition Act, is, I think, amply proved by the faet that your L<>tdi ship has informed me that Her Majesty ! will not be advised to- diaalto-w it."" I Yesterday the Gov'eruor sent the following cablegram to tV> S.jurwtary of State : ~ i\:tobtr 12.. Superin«i»ndent» of Auckh.nd and G;a.;o! ave sent to'egraias to- y""ur Lordsnip uirecs, forwarding copies- to- me. Copies laid by me before t'artiaruenf. Minutjvs advisj no reason to> fear fc.Ue consequences prydictv,tU in wuich l entirety concur. Couutits . b»dl to replace ttu- ITcovinees passed the hewer House by large majority ; the second reading parsed Council without division.—No av.'''