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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 92, 7 August 1876, Page 2

An exciting contest (says a Poverty Bay j contemporary) between thrf>e fine i bull whale.s took place near the Mahia peninsula a few clays ago, a lacjy whale being the casus belli. One of them managed to have Ms under-jaw broken in the encounter, and following 'day He . was washed ashoxe_At.AYluinga»:ai, .dead from the effects oLthainjuries, received battle. Thp'nafoves' at. 6n""ce _seized;'cut. up-and- dried? prize; but he proved to be the "yield of &lL^is/ r e?g©e|pd ' to be trifling. '.^--•''-•" '

The Toronto " Nation" makes the Wb«« inif suggestion Mr. Israeli ha* taktsn ti>'innuvrtte »».» matter of tfitt Royal titles, we woutd another chang; oil Unite as sensatiotdi?acharacter. perh»£s. bttt itfhiuh has more reason in it. Let him pass ;iii Act of Parliament declaring that *'* e * mindencies which are in the enjoyment of josponsihte government cease to be dei Mijinlwiciea, and declaring them to be inoluilfd in the designation of * Ureat iVritain.* fliis would give Canada and the Australian j l.'ulonies de jure that equality with the. United Kingdom which they already possess ,lu facto. In like rnaimef, s<> soon as any I'rown Colony became invested with respon■ilili; government, let it be embraced in the '(Uicral designation, ft is true of Canada. ,16 least, that 'dependency' is a hated deiignation, and which it wnntd Fie wry on the part of the Imperial anthorilius to dispense with. This could be done \ttthotit interfering in the feast with the existing machinery of Imperial administralinn, f.ord Salisbury claimed that ' Empress* nKictty described the relation in which Her MttJMsSy stands to India. It may be claimed iritli equal force that 'Queen of I treat Britain' is a title which equally represents Her Marty's relation to all those enntitrie* render JitirsWay which, govern themselves for them■elves, subject only to- Imperial considerations. "