The " Argus" says : — " A curious point was lately raised on behalf of an aboriginal namod Tommy, who was put on his trial before the Beechworth General Sessions on the charge of horso-sfcealing. Mr Bowman, prisoner's counsel objected to the jurisdiction of the Court, arguing that the prisoner was not a British subject. Mr Armstrong, on behalf of tho Crovrn, says the ' Argus', replied that everyone in this colony was assumed to be subject to its laws. The prisoner was in our country. Mr Bowman rejoined that prisoner said that we were in his country. The aboriginals had never beon conquered — had never ceded the country, and had never sold it. Mr Armstrong said that the Legislature had assumed in various acts that they had power to deal with the aboriginal inhabitants. Judge Cope is reported to have said that he ' certainly thought it was a monstrous thing for us to come into their country and impose our laws upon them. He could not see what court they could appeal to. They only appeal appeared to be an appeal to arms. He thought the question had, however, been decided. He would now proceed with the trial, reserving the point.' . The prisoner w»3 found ' guilty,' and a former conviction being proved against him, he was sentenced to two years' hard labor on the roads.' " The " Waikouaiti Herald" says : — " We regret to learn that on the Coal Creek Station some two thousand sheep have been 'snowed up,' and with slight prospect of their being got out alive. The fall of snow in the up-country districts is reported as something enormous, and that it is feared that the flockowners in many parts will be heavy sufferers from the severity of the weather." The same paper observes : — " The difficulties under which Messrs c Hoyt Chaplin and Co's coaches, travelling between Waikouaiti and the Duns tan, nave had to contend have been very great t and the comparative regularity with which
the up-country mails have been delivered is j highly praisworthy. So deep has been the snow I on certain portions of the road between Pigroot j and the Dunstan, that more than once, we believe: the wheels of the coach have been taken off and the coach temporar2y^conyered into a sledge." We " Wanganui Times" have it upon reliable authority that a new" Governor .''•will shortly as- ' sumo the reins of power in New -Zealand. That fact is no secret to Sir Q-eorge Grey and his " reßponsible advisers," nor do we see why they should keep bo important a matter a secret from the -colonists. : i
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Southland Times, Issue 714, 23 August 1867, Page 2
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