An Island Squabble.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7872, 14 July 1905, Page 2

An Island Squabble.

-♦— OFFICIAL EXCEEDS HIS POWEI

SYDNEY, July 13. On the application for habeas corpus the Court ordered the release of Mr Hazelton, a Solomon Island trailer and ex-Assistant Commissioner, who was arrested a few days ago At the instance of Mr'Olipliant, Acting Commissioner at the Solomons. Oliphanl's affidavits set out that he had received information that Haz■lton was trafficking in arms In the Solomons, and he issued a search warrant. The search discovered arms aboard a schooner Hazel ton was running. He (Oliphant) then issued a summons against Hazelton, and visited his schooner to oMaiu certain data. Hazelton threatened that he would be thrown overboard if he came aboard, showing his authority, and,, gatehing Oliphanl's arm which \vas resting on the gunwale, shoved him back into his bqat. Oliphant issued a warrant for the arrest of Hazelton on a charge of laying hands 011, threatening, and openly insulting His Britannic Majesty's Acting Resident Commissioner in the Western Pacific, OLiphani, in his capacity as Magistrate, tried the case himself, and sentenced Hazelton to pay a fine of £lO, in default three months' imprisonment in Fiji, directing him to pay his own expenses of removal to Fiji, liofh caiije, from the Solomons in the. same steamer Reaching Brisbane ftivcr, Oliphant issued a new warrant for (lie 'detention of Hazel lon, why, on the arrival of the steamer at Sydney was placed in the lock-up, «» tic hS! gt \- 01 U,c BtMmJ Warrant! pending his removal to Fiji, Mr Justi.e* Cohen ordered HazclOliphant, m issuing the Brisbane warrant, acted outside the Sr Wherein be had jurisdiction *