THE VICE-REGAL EVICTION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 7

THE VICE-REGAL EVICTION.

■ ARGUMENT BT LEARNED COUNSEL. I , Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyriijlit i - , i (Rec. February 25, 10; p.m.) i i 1 : . : • ■ Sydnoy, February 25. i _■;' At the hearing of the 'in junction / appii- ,■■■■• cation filed on behalf of the ■ Citizens' V Committee,-in. connection with the alleged oviction of the Governor-Goneral (Lord f(. .... Denman), and the taking-over of Sydney Government House by. tho State'Governi ment, oounsel for the' Government con- ■ 'tended .that; from Hhe time: of .'Governor > Phillip any..;land.,taken> possession of in • the name of tho King belonged to ■ the s Colony, by virtuo of any Act of tho Gov-' ernor, of the 'Colony. Even- beforo; the i : passing, of the Constitution. Act, it, would not have bean competent for the King'to : take lands from thVCololfy"except through . . the: Governor. -The-sovereignty of' the lands in. - and the proprietorial . . rights were vested in: the i Governor. "'lf i i therehad been.", any infringementof ■ the Tights of tho Impprial Government in the matter that would be:for negotiation,'-n?t • litigation. . ...<i .Counsel also claimcd that'tho Governor • • was an Imperial officer. . He was awaro : of what 'his. Uinisters' had .' done, yet'he did not disapprove. It was conceivablo ■■■■; that if. the .acts of his Ministers had in- , fringed Imperial rights ho could.have <lis-1 missed them;' .The Governor was respons- . iblo to the King^therefore,:',the: matter v /was outsido.the 1 jurisdiction of, tie.'Court.