THE PRIVILEGE QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 842, 8 November 1877, Page 2

THE PRIVILEGE QUESTION.

The following is the report‘of Privilege Committee brought up on Monday : ; ( 1. Your Committee iii' obe4i®uoe { to the urgency itilljhsfed ' Upoc? tl&m n by the House, met ’ the, adjournment, ;o£.i the. Friday last, and have- sinoe tt/hengiven 1 Undivided ■ • attention l to. *the subject iemittpdto them; • •Aiiiiple disonssions have" taken pl^<*h ( ,an;d careful research after precedents have been ' 2. Your Committee find that the : precedents examined, apcf: .thfijfrecords of Parliaments, writers bn constitutional history passim , establish or recognise the* principle, that any notice by thd 5 ' Crown of any matter irtagitatiion* ox* debate inParliamept, but by information or agreement of is au infringement of Parliament. 3. They ajjply these .principles *l° the memorandum oi hii Excell ondy the- Governor of s7fh Pctpbei; as laid on the table of the House £f Representatives by command of bis |

Excellency, upon the advice of Ministers, in which, Excellency declines to talwlne%|g vice of his Ministers, cpSM tion to whkh he othermseW led noj that a voWoflwant BeonMi ice it [The ol '^wt ■ 0 raudutn, clined to appoint MrNjViwon, are _, ,4. Tlinbr yip irißfrjfflLJj^ niittee have oeen una Die to come to any other conclusion than the l'ol■iQw.ing.: That the action "ffxcellency The 7 mWßM,m^til\lMif -tW j Mimsters, was an lnfringemejQjr < f the privilogejagfrtfaff House.

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