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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 134, 8 June 1871, Page 2

Mr. G. B. Barton has issued writs against Messrs. Fox, Gisborne, Sewel), and Yogel, to recover five thousand pounds damages, for malicious prosecution. The Canterbury gathering to commemorate . the marriage of the Princess Louise, bids fair to be a great success. The local papers say that from all sides a desire has been evinced to make it not only a Scottish but a national gathering. In the programme of sports for the Queen's Birthday in Melbourne, it was announced in the paper received by last mail that the Annihilator, capable of firing 1,000,000 bullets in fifteen seconds, would be exhibited, and that a flying man would take a flight in the air ! The account of these "sports" is not yet to hand. On the subject of the San Francisco service, the Sydney Mail of the 20th May says : — "The Government is free to make the best bargain that it can, and Mr. Webb is as free as anybody else to put in his claim. If his offer is the best and the cheapest he may get the contract, but to do so he rnust.give.up'\all idea of going round by. Auckland, foLiby that route it is impossible to deliver the mails between Sydney and England in forty-five days." In a late case in the Supreme Court, at Christchurch, a questionjrfas raised as to the legal position of.vt^puperintejtaent. Mr Garrick, who was employed as counsel in the case, referred to the Conjgiitution Act, and read four clauses which, he said, clearly defined the Superintendent to be an officer who, ex officio, co-operates with the Provincial Council for the making of good laws, with the excibplipns mentioned in clause 26, and that he has the liberty of transmitting to the Council certain laws which, if passed, he can- either veto or reserve for the Governo/s^ssent. Some people, he said, considered the Superintendent something-in the nature of a King, who could do novwron,g. On this, Mr. Justice Gresson remarked that he did not think the most ultra-provincialist in New Zealand would contend that a Superintendent was in- the position of apsoyereign.