ADDENDA
Page 8. For the Acts regulating the government of South
Australia, see 4 & 5 Will. IV. ¢. 59, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 60, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 61,
13 & 14 Vict. c. 59, 5. 8; for Western Australia, see 10 Geo. IV. c. 22,
continued by 9 & 10 Viet. c. 35, 13 & 14 Viet. ¢. 59, 8. 9; Orders in
Council, March 20, 1857, March 3, 1859, October 11, 1861, May 14,
1868 (six officials, six non-officials nominated in Order); Act 33 Vict.
No. 13; 37 Vict. No. 22; 46 Vict. No. 24 ; 50 Vict. No. 10.
Pace 136. Cockburn’s charge was in R. v. Nelson and Brand
‘published, 1867) ; that in R. v. Eyre was by Blackburn J.
Pace 200. The Governor's action in 1909 was discussed very
energetically in the Assembly on September 28, 1911 ; see Mercury,
September 29 ; Examiner, September 29 and 30. But the consti
butionalitv of his action was defended warmly by the Premier.
Page 209. See Newfoundland Assembly Journals, 1909, p. 342.
The correspondence was printed in Newfoundland ; cf. McGrath,
Newfoundland in 1911, pp. 60-3.
Pace 220, n. 1. The question of the effect of the contract with
the company came before the Supreme Court in the case of The
Attorney-General of Newfoundland v. The Commercial Cable Co.
The Government claimed 16,000 dollars in respect of four cables of
the company under the Act 5 Edw. VII. c. 7, s. 2, while the company
urged in defence that by the contract of 1909 a cable running to the
company’s station in Newfoundland and then again to sea was to be
reckoned for the tax as one cable. The Court refused to allow the
Act to be set aside by a contract unratified by the Legislature ; see
Royal Gazette. October 17, 1911.
Pace 223. The relation of the Governor and ministers has been
recently illustrated by an extraordinary series of events in New
South Wales. The Labour party took office in 1910 with a secure
majority of two in a house of ninety members, and a probability of
steady support from four or five other independent members. The
policy of forbidding the acquisition of freehold was adopted, and
with it the intention of repealing the Act permitting the conversion
of leaseholds was declared by the Minister of Lands. This develop-
ment raised doubts in the minds of the Independents and also of some
of the Ministerialists who represented country districts, and though
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