AN IMPERIAL COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 4

AN IMPERIAL COUNCIL.

Eminent Jurist's Suggest!**. LONDON, Octofer M. Sir Frederick Pollock,. CorpusJPnfe sor of Jurisprudence in the CnirersrT of Oxford, in a letter to the "Times," » phasises the' progress towards Impend organisation made by. free disease during several months past He suggests that as the Cabinet is O informal committee of the Privy Ccmei it would be easy to form, an JepeM Committee o£ the Privy Gorawl, «*■*• ing certain Ministers of the Grown, wSi the best representatives of eotaßl knowledge, to act imder the Premier »3 an Intelligence Department on lie Eβ* pire's civil affairs. With a view to uniformity -of kp^* , tion the colonial Premiers should be a , vited 'to meetings of the Cabinet or && committee On matters of common laf* rial concern. The committee wouH k*w a permanent secretarial staff. [Sir Frederick Pollock Is one of ft* most eminent authorities on juifef* dence. The names of his "Law of Teis, "Principle of Contracts" and TirWr* ship," as -well as more general ■works, «c with the present-day lawyer as fcnrifer as household words.}