INDEX 
1449, 1450; education, 1452; 
alteration of Constitution, 427-32, 
434, 435. 
Villiers, Lord de, C.J. of South Africa, 
member of Judicial Committee 
(1897— ), 1374. 
Violence, Commonwealth duty to 
protect States against domestic (aid 
refused to Queensland in February, 
1912; British Australasian, Feb- 
ruary 8, p. 4), 804, 805, 1262. 
Virgin Islands, change of Constitution 
of bicameral legislature of (by Acts 
No. 214 of 1854, No. 47 of 1859 (one 
chamber, elective majority), No. 5 
of 1867 (nominee), and Leewards, 
Act No. 16 of 1902), 10, 366, 367 ; 
no power of Crown to legislate for, 
1444 n. 1. 
Visits, 1307. 
Vogel, Hon. Sir J., Agent-General of 
New Zealand, Prime Minister of 
New Zealand (1873-5, 1876), 186; 
views as to post of Agent-General, 
340; proposes colonial representa- 
tion in the Imperial Parliament, 
1458; views on annexation of 
islands in the Western Pacific, 
1135; on treaties, 1173. 
Vondel. case of. 796-804. 1125. 
Wade, Hon. C. G., Premier of New 
South Wales (1907-10), 330; ob- 
tains increase of Legislative Council, 
574; proposals for reform of 
Council, 574, 575 ; attitude towards 
Commonwealth referenda of 1911, 
866 n.3; is refused a dissolution 
by Sir W. Cullen, 1616, 1617. 
Waitangi, treaty of, 1104 n. 1. 
Wales, Prince of, precedence in Canada 
in 1907, 1311. 
Walker, J. Bayldon, J., removal of, 
from Grenada (Times, November 4 
and 6, December 16, 1908),1383 n. 2. 
Walker, Sir B., interferes with Mr. 
Baird's property in Newfoundland 
under modus vivendi, 1103. 
Wall, case of Governor, 28 St.Tr. 51, 
137. 
Wantabadgery case, in New South 
Wales, 1404 n. 4. 
War, prerogative as to, not now dele- 
gated to Governor, 131, 132. 
Ward, Rt. Hon. Sir J., Prime Minister 
of New Zealand (his party majority 
reduced by 1911 election; United 
Empire, ili. 9), 308 n. 1, 309, 325; 
views on exclusion of natives from 
the Union Parliament, 759 n. 2; 
on agenda for the Imperial Confer- 
1669 
ence of 1911, 1495 ; represents New 
Zealand at the Conference, 1501 n. 2; 
proposalsfor an Imperial Parliament 
or Council of Defence (United Em- 
pire, ii. 532-41), 1458, 1503-5; 
views on Standing Committée of the 
[mperial Conference, 1507, 1509, 
1511; on Declaration of London, 
1515; on commercial treaties, 1518; 
on British shipping, 1519, 1520, 
1521, 1522, 1524; on an Imperial 
Court of Appeal, 1378, 1379; on 
Naturalization, 1530; on Labour 
Exchanges, 1536, 1537; on the 
metric system, 1540 ; on shipping 
conferences and rebates, 1541. 
Washington Island, 922. 
Washington, treaty of, of 1888, 1128. 
Waste lands, control of, conceded to 
Australian colonies, 26, 32 ; to Aus- 
tralasian, Canadian, South African 
colonies, 1047-53. 
Water rights over British Columbia 
railway lands vested in Dominion 
Government, 683. 
Waterboer’sterritory, dispute asto, 45. 
Waterhouse, Hon. G. M., Prime 
Minister of New Zealand (1872-3), 
186. 
Watson, Hon. J. C., Prime Minister of 
Australia (1904), 307, 575. 
Watson, Hon. R., represented New- 
foundland at Imperial Conference 
of 1911, 1501 n. 2. 
Way, Rt. Hon. Sir 8., Bart., Member of 
Judicial Committee (1897— ), 783, 
1374 ; honours conferred on, 1302, 
1304n.1; views on power to appoint 
a Deputy Governor (accepted by 
Imperial Government in 1911, and 
followed by Western Australia in 
1912, Debates, pp. 544 seq.), 96. 
Weigall, case of, 804. 
Weld, Hon. F. A., Premier of New 
Zealand (1864-5), views on native 
administration in New Zealand, 
1253 n. 1; Governor of Tasmania 
(1875-80), censured by Assembly, 
175; dispute with Chief Justice on 
prerogative of mercy (cf. Rusden, 
Australia, iii. 639), 1398. 
Wentworth, W., views as to second 
chamber in New South Wales, 572. 
West, Sir L. S., minister at Washington, 
1106. 
Western Australia: representative 
government, 8 ; responsible govern- 
ment, 35-9; legal basis, 72, 73; 
petition of right (62 Vict. No. 9), 
142, 143 ; Executive Council, 150 ; 
relations of Governor to Council.