Niederlande

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1739110889

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-131976

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Niederlande

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Mittler

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IV, 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP. I] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 35 of the Colony which was called Queensland, had to govern for six months without any legislature, but he had as his Colonial Secretary, Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Herbert, who accompanied him from England, and he with his two other chief officers, the Attorney-General and the Colonial Treasurer, presented themselves for election for the Assembly and were duly appointed, thus giving the Governor the advantage of experienced officers in the Ministry. The Legislative Council was nominated by the Governor of New South Wales, but he wisely accepted the advice of the Governor of Queensland, and thus a curiously inconvenient arrangement resulted without injury to the new Colony. Western Australia still stood outside the system in this as in many other ways. While the rest of Australia was destined to adopt at no distant date a policy of extreme Opposition to native immigration, Western Australia looked to the east for its connexion, and under its Crown Colony administration seemed to have little in common with the rest of the continent, from which it was isolated by lands deemed to be desert and utterly useless, though in 1911 that judgement shows signs of being reversed. But the desire for responsible government was strengthened by the gradual influx of settlers from the west when the gold resources of the Colony became known, and in April 1883 the Administrator was asked to ascertain from the Home Government whether responsible government could be conceded. The reply of Lord Derby, of July 23, 1883.2 indi- cated difficulties in the vast size of the Colony, the small Population, and the fact that a demand for responsible government would probably mean that the Colony must be divided as New South Wales had been divided, since the interests of the tropical north and the rest of the Colony were divergent. The Governor, in a dispatch of April 9, 1884.2 was inclined to advise that the grant of responsible government should depend on the result of the elections of 1885; he suggested that the four nominated unofficial ‘ Parl, Pap., August 1861. ? Ibid., C. 5743, p. 2. * Ibid., pp. 5 seq.

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