THE GOVERNOR'S BUNGLE.

Bruce Herald, Volume x, Issue 957, 13 November 1877, Page 3

THE GOVERNOR'S BUNGLE.

CLAIMING DICTATOBIAL POWEE.

The case is Bimple enough. A request was made to. t.he .Governor. Jb>y i he;;Bx«cuJ rive to summon a new member to^ the Legislative Council. His Excellency refusedj on the i ground :; thkf : until the decision of the Assembly if 'madlekn6wn : regarding the position of .the;&overn merit ,it, will not be advisable, to,.make^hevappbintmeut.'.. ,As Mr Stout'yery hpppilyput it;, the Governor is 'simply claiu»iug diet aturial power: Constitutional iy he baa no right' to know anything ofLpeuding motionß ot Went of Confidence; foe thee'e' ihingG nre not .brought.^officially to his notice. By, his reference %o the motion* now under the consideration of the House 1 of Representatives the (GrbVernor has descended into the arena ; of: polities. °In¥o doing he has committed "a most /egregious blunder. TTpbn this point the admirable speech of Mr Stout ; leayes no doubt whatever. In . that there is an of theory backed by recorded, precedent | which is'abVolutely irresistible.-^'Lyttel-ton Times.': ; ; . • Sir^ George GVey has the credit — discredit some call it — of laying a trap into which Lord Normanby has fallen. Be thatvas it may, IGoverhor: ha r B, to say the least, made a grave mistake ia setting himself upi not only as an' interpreter of the will of Parliament, but; a -still worse blunder in; acting upon a supposed, will it was practically declaimed. „ That £c Has done tbis is clearly Bhewn.by, the willinguesa both eidea in" po litica Have shewn id unite on one comoioh platform in defecce of the privileges of the* House againsj; ;^yiceT regal aggresswn.-^^South-land News.' " .i-^-;,,- ■■