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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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910 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV proclamation by the Crown, the frontier is so altered, while by the Constitution Act for Western Australia ! the Crown has power to annex one portion of a Colony to another. It is certain that all these powers remained in existence up to the date of the Commonwealth, and that the provisions are by that Constitution impliedly repealed, as Professor Harrison Moore 2 suggests, seem very improbable, and in the case of demarking a contiguous boundary, he admits that there may be doubt. Indeed, in 1908 there was a proposal on foot bo settle the disputed boundary between the States of South Australia and Victoria by such an agreement, which fell through because the Parliament of Victoria, being convinced that the land belonged by right to Victoria, was not prepared bo pay the sum agreed upon provisionally by its Premier. § 9. Parva AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (a) Papua So far the only territory which has been taken over from the Crown by the Commonwealth is the territory of British New Guinea, being the portion of New Guinea which was secured by the British Government in the struggle for its possession which ensued on the over-zealous annexation by Queensland in April 1883 of the portion not claimed by the Dutch. A Protectorate was proclaimed by Commodore Erskine in November 1884 over the south-east coast and adjacent islands, and a special commissioner, Sir Peter Scratchley, was appointed in 1885, but died the same year, being appropriately succeeded by the Hon. John Douglas, formerly Premier of Queensland. At the Colonial Conference of 18873 there was much discussion of the Western Pacific, and much dissatisfaction was expressed with the Imperial Government, but on that occasion the Colonial Premiers undertook to do what was clearly essential, viz. to make good the cost of governing the island, the annexation of which was clearly of no Imperial interest, and the cost of govern- ' 53 & 54 Vict. c. 26. * Op. cit., p. 596. * Parl. Pap., C. 5091. See also C. 3617, 3691, 3814 (1883); 3839, 3863 (1884) ; 4217, 4273. 4290, 4441, 4584 (1884-5) ; 4656 (1886).

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