Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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1004 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART v action independently of ministers, for the Governor has no other person to fall back on to carry out his will. In 1861 the Governor of New South Wales did indeed himself seal a grant under instruction from the Imperial Government to settle a long outstanding dispute which had commenced in times when the Imperial authorities controlled the land policy of the Colony, but his action was heartily condemned by the Legislature! Governor Sir William Macgregor in 1907 was compelled to take steps himself to secure the publication of the Imperial Order in Council regarding the fisheries in Newfoundland, the Colonial Secretary, who was Prime Minister, declining to do the work. Again, on Imperial grounds the Governor of Natal was instructed in 1906 to put off executions of certain natives, but the result was the resignation of the Ministry, and the Imperial Government withdrew the instruction on hearing further and better details of the transaction, which showed that the natives had had a full and fair trial.2 | There are of course other cases, and it is always possible that a Governor may have to do what Sir Bartle Frere did in 1878, in Imperial interests dismiss a Ministry,® and appeal to the constituencies for a verdict in his favour. At the same time it must be admitted that that was an extreme case. In a few cases the Imperial Government has clearly used its instrument, the Governors, to secure a change of domestic policy in the interests of the Empire as a whole. The Governor-General of Canada, Lord Monk, was extremely active in pressing the question of federation on his ministers, and the records of federation show how far he deemed himself entitled to go in expostulation with them on their slow tactics. The Lieutenant-Governors of the Maritime Provinces also did their best, and in one case, that of New Brunswick, the acceptance of federation was proximately due to the action of the Lieutenant-Governor in getting rid of the anti-confederation Ministry. He did not dismiss New South Wales Legislative Assembly Votes, 1861, i. 58, 416, 647-743 * Above, pp. 291 seq. * Parl. Pap., C. 2079. ' Cf. Pope, Sir John Macdonald, i. 291 seq.

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