FORMER GOVERNORS AND DISSOLUTIONS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 3184, 3 December 1878, Page 3

FORMER GOVERNORS AND DISSOLUTIONS.

[New Zealand Times.] When the Triennial Bill was before the House of Bepresentatives a few days ago on motion for second reading, the adjournment of the House was moved, which would have shelved the Bill. On division the votes were equal, and Mr Speaker, on giving his casting vote, took oocasion to express his opinion against the Bill in the abstract; but he added that the experience of years in this colony had lod him to tho conclusion that Ministers had been doprived of their constitutional right to a dissolution, and as this Bill might reliove them to some extent, he would give his vote against the adjournment, in order that the Bill might have a chance of passing. These remarkable words of course imputed to the Governors of the colony a refusal of constitutional rights which had been demanded of them, and were felt by a large number of members to be exceedingly out of place, coming as they did from the Speaker's chair. On the renewal of the debate on Wednesday evening, Mr Fox, who had not previously spoken, said that "as regards the abstract merits of the Bill as between five years and three he had no very strong opinion. If, however, it could be showu in the light of experience of past years that any Ministry had ever been deprived of its constitutional right to a dissolution, and that this Bill might to somo extent remedy that evil, he might be inclined to vote for it. But his experience in past years satis* fied bim that no such circumstance had ever occurred. On two occasions only since the Constitution was bestowed had dissolutions been asked for. In both they. had been refused, and in his opinion, in both the Governors who had refused them had 'done so with strict regard to constitutional rights, to common sense, and to tho merits of the cases. In order to give expression to his opinion to that effect he should vote against the Bill." We understand that Mr Fox was not the only member who resented the charges against the Governors of New Zealand implied in Sir Wm. Fitzherbert's utterances. Several other members are said to have refrained from voting for the Bill, or voted against it, as a tacit assertion of the impropriety of tho Speaker's remarks and their disagreement with tho implied imputation on Governors Bowen and Norma'nby.

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