FIFTY YEARS AGO
IMPERIAL INTERVENTION The action of the British Government in opposing the passage of a dn one reform bill brought forward by the New South Wales Government caused much resentment and the changes which later came to pass in Imperial relationships were forecast in the Xkw Zk.U.aND Hf.ram) of March i?2, 1888. Hollowing is an extract from the loading article on the subject. "it is evident that considerable complications are likely to arise ironi t lfc diverse course' of legislation in the di ferent parts of the British Umpire, am questions of great delicacy must engage the attention of the Imperial aduseis of Her Majesty from time to time in consequence. . "We learn by cable that Her Majesty has been advised to withold her allowance of the new Divorce hxtensiou .Ac of New South Wales, and from our Sydney telegrams we learn that strong language' was used in the House o Legislature with respect to the interference with the right of independen legislation. 'Strong language' ( '°? s . n< \ count for much as a rule in the Sjc Parliament, but we shall not be■ sur prised to see very considerable in ig l tion indulged on the matter and '• * . valiant declarations of resentinen such Imperial intervention 1U affairs of a colony."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22993, 22 March 1938, Page 8
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