cuar. 1] THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR 119 
which desire to have the advantage of the royal approval as 
conveyed by the grant of a charter. The prerogative, though 
thus it cannot be said to be dead, is not one which can 
possibly be exercised by a Governor. 
Again, the Governor has no right to confer honours of any 
sort, and the Privy Council has denied that the power can 
be so delegated, save by statute! The bestowal of honours 
can clearly not, on any reasonable theory, be regarded as 
a necessary part of a Colonial administration, and there is 
no instance where the power to confer any honour has been 
recognized. The rule has been extended to the case of a 
medal intended merely to be a local reward issued for services 
in New Zealand, though there the matter was arranged by 
the ex post facto approval of the Crown to the grant being 
conveyed to the Governor.2 Tt is true that the Governor is 
given by the Colonial Regulations, confirming various instruc- 
tions by dispatch and otherwise, a limited right to regulate 
precedence in the absence of authoritative instructions, but 
the general rules of precedence emanate from the Sovereign. 
Moreover, the Governor or Governor-General isnot entitled 
to perform the act of investiture of a man with an order 
granted by the Crown without special permission from the 
Crown. This permission has been given from time to time 
to the Governor-General of Canada and the Governor-General 
of the Commonwealth, and since 1910 to the Governor- 
General of the Union of South Africa? But though these 
officers have been authorized by letters patent of 1902 to 
invest officers upon whom the two highest classes of the 
O.M.G. have been conferred, they have not received autho- 
rity to dub a man a knight ; this must either be done by 
© Attorney-General for Dominion of Canada v. Attorney-General for Province 
sf Ontario, [1898] A. C. 247, at p. 252. 
* See Parl. Pap., C. 83, pp. 42, 190. 
' The Duke of Connaught on opening the Union Parliament in South 
Africa in 1910 invested several recipients of honours. In 1879 the 
Marquess of Lorne was permitted on May 24 to invest six members of the 
(Canadian Government with the insignia of K.C.M.G., a then unprecedented 
occurrence in a Colony. For the present practice elsewhere see New 
Zealand Parl. Pap., 1904, A. 2, p. 7.