The Manawatu Standard The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH, 8. 1886 THE IMPENDING DISSOLUTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1652, 8 March 1886, Page 2

The Manawatu Standard The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH, 8. 1886 THE IMPENDING DISSOLUTION.

"A variety, bf opinions havebeen^ Expressed by different authorities as to the position m which ; the Governor will find himself should the Cabinet request him to grant a dissolution before Parliament meets. The New Zealand Herald maintains that there can be no question as to the abstract prerogative; of the Crowh to dissolve Parliament ijppn the adjrice of responsible Ministers at if an}r period off the year,' or m ' any state whatever of the public business that they may think a fit opportunity for so doing; but as clearly, stated by Lord Palm ERsto:>j m. the House, of Commons on jhe ..6th'. (if. April, 1859, the advisers ..ofVjthe Grown cannot. make the recommendation and carry it into effect "unless the House of Commons, makes itself a party to tKe ; transaction, accelerates its p|oqee§'-" ' ings^nd concurs fa the temporary expedients which are necessary m order to place the public business m a.ppsition m which, a dissolution would hot be attended with inconvenience." • Our Auckland contemporary proceeds to remark that airauthdrities are agreed that Parliament has an undpubted constitutional right to refuse to be a party to the abrupt and premature termination of its existence, arid to m*l terpose its advice between, that tendered to the Crown by the. responsible Minijitejsa.nd the act . of dissolution, by an address to the Sovereign (or, m the colonies, to her representative;), praying that it may: be neither dissolved nor prorogued until the House has had an opportunity of considering the proposals of the Ministry j or of ad- ! dressing the Crown to dismiss the Ministry. This is laid down by Todd as '*an undoubted right of either Hapse^ of.. Parliament.^.. A t s to constitutional 'practice and precedent, with regard to tile ,peribd at "which the dissolution "sought, Bats^l, . in^ .his *• Pr^ceden H ts ? :? says; ffiiat ■'* the practice 'wliich has been! followed without interruption ever [since the Revolution has been j-that^th'e 'Parliament'is' proro^u^ed 1 to a 1 certkin day, ahJtheh proclamation issues discharging the members of bt>ih' Houses from thjeir attendance (upon that day, and dissolving the I Parliament." „. M ; ay, „ m his " Parliamentary Practice," writes that,! " since the dissolution of the gSthjMarc^lißSl, % Charles 111, t the Sovereign had hot dissolved the JPatliamierft m; person untibtlie i-Oth'f June, .1818, , w hen it was dissolved by the Prince Regent in' pe.tsoni l Parliament has not since been* d& ; solved m that form,, but proceedings not very dissimilar have occurred m ;recei>t timW [ >On the^n&April,i 1831|, the King, having come down to prorogue Parliament, said; * I have; come to hieet you for the purpose of proroguing Parliauient with a view to its immediate dissolution. 11 ' A similar' course was followed m 1837, 184T, and 1857. The Herald affirms that the emergency under which Mr Gladstone obtained a premature dissolution m 1874 was; qiiite :of an exceptional n^U?e \ % affords no parallel to, and therefore constitutes no precedent for, that whiQh the Stout- Vogel administra- , tien now seek. It further obterves

that Todd, and all the authorities it has consulted, concur m this view, viz., that Parliament should have notice of an impending dissolution while m session, failing which the rights of the Commons to make prpvision for the conduct of public business during the interim be-, tween the dissolution and the assembling of the new Parliament, and of both Houses to traverse tHe policy of the Ministry and protest against, the threatened dissolution,' are unconstitutionally invaded. Under these circumstances, our contemporary scavcely thinks that the Governor will accede to any request of the present Ministry to "dissolve" Parliament before next, session,, however urgently the Ministry-may-press the point, and how earnestly soever Sir Julius Yogel personally may- desire it. . ......... '