ALLEGED ILLEGAL ACT.
FALSE POSITION OF GOVERNOR. Received June£3o,lo.3o p.m. LONDON, June 30. In the House of 'Join nons, Mr Alfred Lytthton raised an interesting debate upon the question of the payment of £3OO each to the Transvaal Members. He urged£that the Colonial Office should have instructed the Governor, Who in turn ought to have prevented a definitely declared breach of the law.
Mr Rufus Isaacs replied that the Colonial Office would carefully consider the matter. It was concluded that the Governor ought to do as his Ministers in the colony advised. Mr Balfour said it was an extraoidinary doctrine that the Governor should be obliged to do illegal acts, if Ministers so advised. Mr Steel Maitland declared that there had been a gradual declension. The Premiers desired that the nations composing the Empire should be considered as co-ordinate,| and that a secretariat Bhou.ld be responsible to them all, but the whole attitude of the Colonial Office had been to regard the United Kingdom as one body, and the Dominions as semiexternal appendages, with a secretariat as a mere addendum of the f'olonial Office.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10029, 1 July 1910, Page 5
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184ALLEGED ILLEGAL ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10029, 1 July 1910, Page 5
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