PARLIAMENTARY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume V, Issue 427, 14 October 1876, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

(PBESS AGENOT.) WbIUNGTON, Yesterday morning. The House sat till 4 this morning. A Select Committee has beon appointed to enquire into the facilities given to newspapers to u»« the telegraph;

A long debate ensued regarding the appoint' ment of an Inspector' General of .Prisons, and a motion by Mr Bums, that a cablegram be sent home cancelling any suoh appointment, was lost by one. It was agreed to give Cole man Phillips £150 instead of £300 applied for. Eighteen Harbour Board Bills passed. The Governor's Despatch to the Secretary of State re the Grey Craze. Precis of papers laid on the table last night by command. 1. Copy of despatoh from the Governor to the Secretary of State, dated June, 1875, covering a letter from Sir George Grrey. i he Governor shows by incontrovertible evidence that Groy's apprehensions about the bombardment of Auckland originated with himself in 1874, in a conversation with Mr Dargaville, of Auckland, long before tho Abolition Bill was thought of. He Bays, '* Sir George Grey, when he wrote this letter to your Lordship, must have been perfectly aware of the fact that the Government of a colony have no control whatever over Her Majesty's forces, nnd that they could uuder no circumstanced be broughbanto aotion except through the intervention of the Governor himself. To Buppose, therefore, that it could be possible | for Her Majesty's ships to be mcd for the purpose of cannonading the city of Auckland, he must in the first place have presumed that I hud entirely lost; ray senses before I could bo induced to make suoh a requisition to the officer in command of Her Majesty's ships, and in the second place, that officer must have been equally mad to. comply with it." As to the ultra vires point of view of the Abolition Bill, the Governor sayg, "That the Legis* lature has power under tbe authority of the Imperial Parliament to make the change proposed by the Abolition Act is, I think, amply proved by the fact that your Lordship has informed me that Her Majesty will not be advised to disallow it,"

Governor's Cablegram to the Secretary of State.

Yesterday, the Governor Bent the following oablegram to tho °e«retary of State : — " Wellington, October 12.

"The Superintendents of Auckland and Otngo have sent telegrams to your Lordship direct, forwarding copies to me. Copies laid by me before Parliament. Ministers advise no reason to fear the consequence predioted, in whioh I entirely concur. The Counties Bill, to replace provinces, passed the Lower House by a large majority. The second reading passed the Council without a division. " (Signed) Normandy. "Earl Carnarvon, Colonial Offloe, London."

1 ■ Last Night: Tho whole of this afternoon was oooupied in diecußsing the Governor's despatch and its reflections upon Ore?. The Opposition members strongly condemn tho tone of the despatch.