INDEX
1665
vernment, 8; responsible govern-
ment, 27, 28, 32; legal basis, 70,
71; petition of right (Act No. 6 of
1853), 142, 143 ; Executive Council,
150 ; relation of Governor to Coun-
cil, 155; Ministry, 318, 319; civil
service (Acts No. 3 of 1874, 231,
607), 349-52 ; legislative authority,
355 n. 1, 358 n. 3; privileges of
Parliament, 448, 457 n. 1; limita-
tion of length of speeches, 466;
President and Speaker, 468 ; sum-
mons, prorogation, and dissolution,
470 n. 5, 1597; duration, 502;
franchise, 485, 486 ; qualification of
members, 496, 497 ; payment, 503 ;
electoral matters, 506; Upper House,
533-6; relations with Lower House,
626-9,1620; representationin federal
Council, 782 ; attitude to federation,
784-8 ; referenda, 931, 932, 938;
instructions as to reservation of
Bills, 1013, 1014, 1601; Imperial
control of internal affairs, 1036;
native affairs, 1061, 1062 ; Chinese
immigration, 1075, 1078; Indian
and Japanese immigration, 1080-2,
1087; navy, 1270-6; judiciary
(Act No.310f 1855-6),1131; appeals
to Privy Council (Order in Council,
February 15, 1909), 1359, 1360,
1364, 1369 n. 1; prerogative of
mercy, 1395, 1412, 1597, 1602;
church, 1426, 1449, 1450; educa-
tion, 1452; financial irregularities
(cf. Assembly Debates, 1911, pp. 546,
547, 1247-52, 1305-8; Act. No.
1065), 248 ; alteration of Constitu.
tion, 427-33; appeal to Imperial
Government for intervention (re-
fused, December, 1911; Labour
Party defeated at General Election,
February, 1912; Advertiser, Janu-
ary 4, 1912), 1620.
South-West Africa, proposed annexa-
tion to Cape, 1136.
Southern Nigeria, power of Crown
to legislate for Colony of. 1444
n. 1.
Southern Rhodesia, 995.
Sovereignty, of Canada and provinces,
666 n.; applied to the colonies,
809, 1453.
Spain, treaties with, of May 23, 1667,
December 9, 1713, bind Dominions,
1153, notes of December. 1894,
1623.
Speaker, position of (for form of ap-
proval in Australian States, see
Western Australia Debates, 1911,
p. 11), 467-70: forbids censure of
(Governor, 175; casting vote of
(cf. Natal Legislative Council De-
hates, 1905, pp. 223, 234), 1253,
1616 n. 1; difficulty as to election
»f in Newfoundland, 209, 210; in
New South Wales in 1911 (cf. inci-
dent on July 26, 1909, in Common-
wealth, where clerk by casting vote
aegatived adjournment of debate
(Turner, Commonwealth, pp. 232,
233); Queensland has adopted a
new S.0. to regulate procedure and
avoid similar scenes), 1617.
Speech, Governor's, 339.
Sprigg, Rt. Hon. Sir G., Prime Minister
of the Cape (1878-81, 1886-90,
1896-8, 1900-4), 290, 325; P.C,
1302 n. 3; supports Sir B. Frere
in his dispute with Mr. Molteno’s
Government, 1259, 1260.
Staff of Governors (Private Secretaries
paid in Canada (as Governor-
(Jeneral’s Secretary), in Western
Australia (63 Vict. No. 19, sched. 4),
Queensland, Newfoundland), 98.
Stafford, Hon. E. W., Prime Minister
of New Zealand (1856-61, 1866-9,
1872), 186; views on native ad-
ministration, 1253, n. 1.
Stamps, designs of, submitted for
royal approval, 1187 n.
Standing Committee, proposed, of
Imperial Conference, 1506-11.
Stanford, Hon. Col. W. E. M., selected
as a senator in the Union. 958
n. 2.
Stanhope, Rt. Hon. E., M.P., Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies (1881-
7), summons Colonial Conference of
1887, 1463.
Stanley, Lord, afterwards Earl of
Derby, Secretary of State for the
Colonies (1841-5), reconstructs Legis
lative Council of New Brunswick,
592, 593.
Stanley of Preston, Lord, Governor-
General of Canada (1888-93), asks
for instructions as to assenting to
a provincial Act, 731 n. 4.
3tates of Australia, Part IV, chap. ii.
Statistics of disallowed Bills of
Canadian provinces, 734 1.3.
Stephen, Hon. Sir A., CJ. of New
South Wales, discusses question of
prerogative of mercy, 1389.
Stout, Hon. Sir R., K.CM.G., Prime
Minister of New Zealand (1884-7),
329 ; Chief Justice (1899— ), views
on power of Dominion Parliament
as to merchant shipping, 1200-5;
on the Judicial Committee of the
