Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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34 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part II proposed for appointment before he was actually appointed.! Lord Knutsford, in a letter to the Agent-General of Queens- land of October 19, 1888, declined to comply with the pro- posal on the ground that it was obvious that the officer charged with the duty of conducting the foreign relations of the Crown, and of advising the Crown when any question of Imperial as distinct from Colonial relations arose, must be selected by the Secretary of State for the Queen’s approval, and must owe his appointment and be responsible to the Crown alone. It was not possible, therefore, for the respon- sible ministers of the Colony to share the responsibility of nominating the Governor, or to have a veto in the selection. But the Secretary of State was deeply conscious of the necessity of selecting a person of high capacity and character for the important post, and hoped that the selection made would prove acceptable. The choice fell on Sir H. Blake, and evoked a storm of indignation : the Ministry joined with the opposition under Sir Samuel Griffith in deprecating the appointment, and communicated their views through the Agent-General, a course to which Lord Knutsford took exception, preferring that the matter should be dealt with in the usual formal manner through the officer administering the Government, to whom he telegraphed asking the grounds of the objection to the appointment proposed. At this juncture the Agent-General of South Australia intervened with a request from his Government that they might be informed who was to succeed Sir W. Robinson. The case for the refusal to give the required information was conveyed to the Agent-General in a letter from the Colonial Office of November 15,1888, in which stress was laid upon the Imperial duties of the officer selected, and on the danger of charges of favouritism being brought against a Colonial Governor, who was approved by a Colonial Government, if he used his discretion in the delicate business of granting a dissolution in their favour. Moreover, it was intimated that it would be difficult to ask a distinguished man to undertake a post t Parl. Pap., C. 5828 (1889). Cf. Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, i. 337, 338.

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