THE NEW REIGN.
The changes at Home, like in the colony, are not so great on the death of the reigning sovereign as formerly. On the accession of the Queen, Parliament had to be dissolved, by reason of that accession, within a few months. Such, however, is not the ease now, as was stated a few issues ago. Formerly on the demise of the Sovereign, Parliament stood dissolved by the fact thereof; but this was altered in the reign of William 111 to the effect of postponing the dissolution till six months after the accession of the new Sovereign, while the Reform Act of 1867 settled that the Parliament "in being at any future demise of the Grown shall not be determined by such demise." A dissolution of the House of Commons can now only occur by the will of the Sovereign, or during the recess by proclamation, or finally by the lapse of time in the existence of Parliament, as fixed by Statute.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 January 1901, Page 2
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164THE NEW REIGN. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 January 1901, Page 2
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