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  2. VICTORIA.

    The COLONIAL ENGINEER roso for the purpose of announcing to the House that the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Collector of Customs, and the Surveyor-General had tendered the resignation of their ...

    Article : 6,985 words
  3. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28.

    The SPEAKER announced that he had presented to his Excellency the Governor the address adopted by the Council in reference to the supposed dismissal of the Ministry, and that his Excellency had stated all papers ...

    Article : 575 words
  4. [COPY.] No. 10.—THE HON. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

    Dear Sir Charles,—I forward to you without loss of time the opinion of the Attorney-General on the point you desired me to refer to him yesterday evening. I trust it may prove a full explanation of the difficulty in which we felt ourselves placed. ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. [COPY.] No. 11.

    Letter addressed by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Attorney-General, to the officers of the Executive Government, who become politically responsible by the preclamation of the Constitution. ...

    Article : 161 words
  6. [COPY.] No. 12.

    Sir—The time having arrived when it becomes necessary to form a Ministry under the Constitution recently proclaimed, I have to request that you will accept the office of Colonial Secretary, and submit to me a list of persons who you may desire ...

    Article : 104 words
  7. [COPY.] No. 13.

    Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter of this, date, in which you state that her Majesty's royal assent to the new Constitution having been proclaimed, and it being therefore necessary that a Ministry should ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. [COPY.] No. 2.—MINUTE.

    The Govern[?]r requests the law officers to give their opinion o[?] the following points:— 1. The Despatch covering an Act to enable her Majesty to assent to a [?]ill as amended, of the Legislature of Victoria, to ...

    Article : 194 words
  9. [COPY.] No. 14.

    Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, releasing me, on political grounds, from the office I at present hold. I shall hold myself in readiness to comply with your ...

    Article : 136 words
  10. [COPY.] No. 15.

    Sir—I have had the honour of receiving your Excellency's letter of this date, releasing me on political grounds from the office which I at present held, but desiring me to continue to perform its duties until the appointment of my successor. ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. [COPY.] No. 3.—OPINION.

    We have perused the papers submitted [?]s. By the 5th section his Excellency is directed to proclaim the statute of the Imperial Parlisment within one month, which in our opinion means within one calendar month after his receipt ...

    Article : 412 words
  12. [COPY.] No. 16.

    Sir—I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your Excellency's letter of this day's date in which it is intimated to me that, agreeably to the provisious of the 18th and 19th Vict., cup. 55, it becomes necessary to release me, on political grounds, from ...

    Article : 196 words
  13. [COPY.] MINUTE FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, TRANSMITTING HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE FUTURE ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY.

    The Governor transmits for the information and guidance of the responsible officers the views which he entertains regarding the future administration of the Government of this colony. He requests the Colonial Secretary to consider this document ...

    Article : 6,034 words
  14. [COPY.] No. 4—MINUTE.

    The Governor requests the officers of the Executive Council and Captain Clarke to meet together in the Colonial Secretary's room, to-morrow (Tuesday, the 6th instant), at ten a.m., for the purpose of going through the Estimates; after which the ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. [COPY.] No. 5.—MINUTES SUBMITTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR BY THE HO[?]. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

    The officers summoned by his Excellency, to consider the Estimates this morning, experience a difficulty at starting which they respectfully submit for his Excellency's commands. They are not informed whether they are requested to consider ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. [COPY.] No. 6.—HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY.

    1. The responsibility of officers commences on the day of proclamation, and the Governor will not sanction any deviation from the present form of Government routine until then. 2. With regard to the Estimates, if the officers desire to ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. [COPY.] No. 7.—THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

    Dear Sir Charles,—I do not wish to trouble you to-day with any renewed discussion on the subject of the conversation which took place yesterday immediately before the opening of the House. ...

    Article : 117 words
  18. No. 8.—HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR TO THE HON. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

    My Dear Sir,—In any conversation on any matter of an official character between yourself and the responsible officers, I request you will inform them that my decision, if referred to, will be taken entirely on constitutional grounds, and without reference ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. [COPY.] No. 9—THE HONORABLE THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

    Dear Sir Charles,—I have just received, a note from the Colonial Secretary, in which he requests me to place you in possession or my opinion as to the necessity which exists for the formal appointment by you of the responsable officers of ...

    Article : 273 words
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