MORE ABOUT THE BOMBARDMENT OF AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 4265, 27 October 1876, Page 4

MORE ABOUT THE BOMBARDMENT OF AUCKLAND.

It -vrill be rci-a«iab;.' m • ctat Sir i Gb*o?*qe O Tf-y reouuc.'v ‘itvc:if;lv uumutd tl.ie conduct of Air Hargavillu in repeating in a letter to Captain Mating certain statements made in the 1 -ouvse of an alleged private conversation, Mr Dargavide in a recent letter :.o the Auckland ‘ Herald ’ remarks: — I protest against the conversation between the Superintendent and myself being regarded as in any sense private or confidential. As be himself says, we were not in the habit of conversing confidentially. He • peaks as Superintendent of tho Province to uie as member of the Provincial Council on ?'• purely political matter. His object was u> induce me to withdraw my motion with rciereuce to tho assumption by him of tho control of the police, and the arguments he used were those stated in my letter to Captain Maling. The fact of my having mentioned the matter next morning to several gentlemen shews that I, at least, did not consider the communication as of * private nature. Sir George Grey is reported to. have said that I constantly annoyed him oy asking questions. I give the statement ~n unqualified contradiction. He says he never mot me in private life. True, for the Triple reason that I have always declined ids invitations to visit the Kawau ; and I am not aware that he appears anywhere else in private life in Auckland, His memory .j,-a always been peculiar with reference to verb a' communications ; but with those who know us both well, I am quite content to let ;ny state.*uoufc he weighed against Lis for .Vrnthiuincss. I shell probably address you farther on this subject by next m-.il, merely adding cow that it w; s the iniquitous at- : rsipt of Sir George Grey to foist upon the Colony this canard , which originated in his own fertile, and cunning brain, that induced •ne to write ill • letter ieferr. d to, ami thus

.-•ace the saddle on the right horse. As be xi in" on the or igin of the bombardment rumors, the ‘Cross' publishes the following extract from a letter written to the ‘ Brisbane Courier’ by its Auckland correspondent, in October, 1875. The con e>pondent in question was at the time on the staff of he ‘ New Zealand H* raid,’ and ful'y u Sir G. Grey’s confidence :

I i-ev looming in the immediate'future

■'••• 'thing 1* ss than anarchy a;id confusion or •”o»»e. Sir George Grey is Superintendent ■f Aa -.!•:! and, and Mr Macani.ivw '•uporinu :oient -•>? Otago. Both cay that the Abolition of Provincial Governments is opposed aiikc to the spirit and Later of the constitution of the IniTK-ird Act whin • v.a* famed for ti'.a Col: uy. Tt-oy say. : miller. V will appeal u.i ti»j Supreme. .‘oart.-, and, if necon••try, to t. ; e Privy Council, ana this failing they will kneel at the foots-col of the throne itself; ;vnl they, further, something more than hint that, ail i hcse -rpnoaio failing, they ■will rcsi-t to death—which mej nathat they will refuse to give up tnc reals <T office, and the Government may do its best or its worst. That is to say, the Government can try what their authority, hacked by au armed force, cameffect.