cuaP. vi] GOVERNOR AS IMPERIAL OFFICER 285 
Australian States, New Zealand, the Commonwealth, and 
Canada. In the case of the Transvaal, the Orange River 
Colony, and Natal, there is silence as to Imperial interests, 
and this is followed by the case of the Union of South Africa, 
for in all these cases a more antique model—that of the Cape 
—is followed, which throws upon the Governor in every 
capital case the duty of deciding on his own deliberate 
judgement what course to take. In the case of Natal the 
Governor was given with regard to his acts as Supreme Chief 
a free hand after communicating his views to the Ministry 
and endeavouring to secure their co-operation, and in the 
case of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony it was 
arranged in the letters patent constituting the representative 
Legislature and responsible government that the Governor 
as opposed to the Governor in Council should exercise the 
functions of supreme or paramount chief. In both cases 
the control of the natives was deemed an Imperial interest, not 
on the ground of any special duty of the Imperial Govern- 
ment to secure the good government of the natives in these 
(Colonies, but because the Imperial Government is responsible 
for the rest of British South Africa, and unrest among any 
set of the natives communicates itself at once to the others, 
a fact fully appreciated by the Transvaal and Orange River 
Colonies when during the Natal native rebellion they sent 
men to the assistance of the Colony, and a consideration 
which weighed very heavily with those who agreed to unite 
the Colonies of South Africa. The matters in which the 
Governor is required to reserve Bills are now all matters 
which can fairly be said to have Imperial interest in the 
narrower sense : they concern divorce, which has Imperial 
bearings as a question of private international law; any 
present to the Governor himself which is due to the Imperial 
Government’s control over the Governor; currency and 
differential duties; any law containing provisions inconsistent 
with treaties; any law interfering with the discipline and 
control of the Imperial troops where there are detachments 
still situated in the Colonies, and any extraordinary law affect- 
ing the prerogative, the shipping of the Empire, or the rights