Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1254 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V the Governor, who on his own responsibility offered certain terms to natives who should surrender! They had come into violent conflict with the Governor as to the respective rights of the Imperial Government and the Colonial Govern- ment as to the treatment of prisoners of war. These prisoners were confined, by the desire of the Colonial Government, on a hulk which the Governor visited and thought unsuited for their detention ; moreover, he thought that they should be brought to trial with all reasonable celerity, while the Government withheld action. The Secretary of State ulti- mately instructed the Governor explicitly that he was at liberty in this matter, as the war was being carried on by Imperial troops, to act on his own responsibility, and to dispose of the prisoners as he thought fit. The Government objected to this view and maintained that they were entitled to dispose of the prisoners. This elicited from the Secretary of State an expression of his views to the effect that the Government were really asking that they should be supplied with troops and a commander by the Imperial Government, while the Imperial Government was divested of all control over the operations of these forces for which they paid, and were thus reduced to the position of being tributary to the Colonial Government.? The position was rendered more and more difficult by disputes between the Governor and the general commanding with regard to the conduct of hostilities, and in consequence of the absolute inability of the Governor and the officer com- manding to agree as to the policy to be pursued, and also of the Governor insisting on retaining troops which the Imperial Government had desired should be returned to Australia, the Imperial Government decided to take the control of all the troops save one regiment out of the hands of the Governor, instructing him that the other troops should be treated as being merely in the position of troops which had called at New Zealand en route. See Parl. Pap., March 2, 1865, p. 4. ' See Parl. Pap., H. C. 467, 1863, p. 242 ; July 1864, p. 18 ; February 7, 1865, pp. 117 seq., 197. Cf. Parl. Pap., H. C. 307, 1869, pp. 232 seq., £20, 522 sey. ; Rusden, ii. 185-90.

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