SIR GEORGE GREY DEFIANT.

Evening Star, Issue 4118, 9 May 1876, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY DEFIANT.

The Superintendent of Auckland’s communication to the Commissioners, whom he addresses in their full official titles, gives his reasons for refusing to assist them in their mission The concluding part of his letter is as follows:

there,or P« to say I shall hr all constitutional means oppose any stabs -which the slightest degree to c/mproKthe and constitutional' freedom of this Province! L h ?J® 2* • honor further to remind you of that rule ?! i aw w hwh that no commands or order by a supenor will avail as a defence when a person «£■“ itaelf lawful. I Ce. tW !° re ’ to request you not to venture to attempt to carry out, within the. Province of Auckland, on - y° n “a professedly sent. Si!ri5 P ffi ed t0 the Civil Service of this Ooiony, and hold your respective offices in it. +Sl<^ ie «ffl Urpt> S e °lu fu }fUi®? duties imposed on these offices by .the General Assembly of New Zealand. Ton have not lawful authority, for outeringr on the duties you have now undertaken. In so i om ?7, ou BX6 acting outside tho Civil Service of the Colony, and have become the' emissaries of a single gentleman, who had no right or power whatever to despatch you on such a duty. If, therefore, in defiance of my warning, and in breach of lawful and constitutional rights of the Province, you enter npon, or attempt to prosecute: fcnv such inquiries within its limits, I Bhn.it fed It to be my duty, as Superintendent, to appeal to' the proper tribunals, in order that yon nay be JSM L J a 1 i y °T r Actively dealt with as W may ditect. I shall cause a copy of this letter to be sent to tee Provincial Auditor at the <»mi« tune, Galling on him to decline to give you any information, or take any action whatever, save sueh only as he is authorised and empowered to giv* di take by law, under which, and to carry out which, he .was appointed to that office, and which law eo l e J’ Boo , urß J e )y defiLes and limits powers and unties he can lawfully and constitutionally exercise and perform as Provincial Auditor.. t