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Evening Star, Issue 3128, 27 February 1873, Page 2

The telegrams ia another column, announcing a Ministerial crisis, will naturally suggest a reference to Hansard , to know what was said in Parliament on the question of the Premier’s status in the Ministry. Mr Stafford having previously elicited from the Colonial'(reasurer an expression of opinion that the Government, which had just been formed by the latter, would be dissolved by the death or resignation of the present Premier, tabled, on October 17, a direct question in these words :—“That the Colonial Treasurer having stated that the present Ministry was formed by him, and not by the Prime Minister, this House desires to be informed whether, in the event of the death or resignation of the Prime Minister, th c Ministry would, in accordance with constitutional usage, be ipso facto dissolved.” In the course of his reply Mr Vogel said :—“ I think it must be patent to most honorable members that when a Premier resigns, his resignation carries with it that of all his colleagues. . . . It is not quite clear that the resignation or death of a Premier would ipso facto lead to the dissolution of the Ministry,”