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Pàgina 1 - I was warned," writes the Count, " of the responsibility I should incur if I gave publicity to the discovery, since, as the Governor argued, by proclaiming the Colonies to be gold regions, the maintenance of discipline among 45,000 convicts, which New South Wales, Tasmania, and Norfolk Island contained, would become almost impossible ; and unless the penal code should be amended at home, transportation would become a premium upon crime and cease to be a punishment. These reasons of state-policy had...
Pàgina 208 - ... involve an admission that the great colony of Victoria was compelled to ask the Imperial Parliament to resume a power which, desiring to promote her welfare and believing in her capacity for self-government, the Imperial Parliament had voluntarily surrendered, and that this request was made because the leaders of political parties, from a general want of the moderation and sagacity essential to the success of constitutional government, had failed to agree upon any compromise for enabling the...
Pàgina 27 - ... making such dispositions as I concluded would enable the authorities to maintain the integrity of the law, and, within four days, 450 military and police were on the ground, commanded by an officer in whom I had confidence, and who was instructed to enforce order and quiet, support the civil authority in the arrest of the ringleaders, and to use force, whenever legally called upon to do so, without regard to the consequences which might ensue.
Pàgina 8 - Alps, but within the limits of this colony, is found to abound in the same precious metal. In short, judging from the general prevalence of the geological formation in which the gold has hitherto been found so abundantly over the whole length and breadth of the colony I can contemplate no limit to the discoveries, or the results of the opening of these fields.
Pàgina 11 - skyhackinff"* to which the police were subject when sent round to inspect people's licenses, was brought on principally by their own individual overbearing conduct, many having been accustomed to that system of convict discipline, it was not in their nature to perform their duty quietly without bouncing, bullying, and swearing at every one : to ask a man quietly whether he had a...
Pàgina 144 - Legislature to coerce the other. [He] ought not therefore again to recommend the vote to the acceptance of the Legislature ... except on a clear understanding that it will be brought before the Legislative Council in a manner which will enable them to exercise their discretion respecting it without the necessity of throwing the colony into confusion".1 He did not bind the Governor by a positive Instruction, but "entirely relied" on him to give effect to these views.
Pàgina 139 - In 1876 he retired in disillusion from parliamentary politics which he had come to regard as 'a sort of pandemonium in which a number of lost souls are endeavouring to increase one another's torture'.62 In 1880 he was raised to the Supreme Court bench and was to become Chief Justice in 1886.
Pàgina 208 - It would be held to involve an admission that the great colony of Victoria was compelled to ask the Imperial Parliament to resume a power which, desiring to promote her welfare and believing in her capacity for self-government, the Imperial Parliament had voluntarily surrendered, and that this request was made because the leaders of political parties, from a general want of the moderation and sagacity essential to the success of constitutional government...
Pàgina 132 - Her Majesty's Government have no wish to interfere in any questions of purely colonial policy, and only desire that the colony shall be governed in conformity with the principles of responsible and constitutional Government, subject always to the paramount authority of the law.
Pàgina 43 - The jury view with extreme horror the brutal conduct of the mounted police in firing at and cutting down unarmed and innocent persons of both sexes, at a distance from the scene of disturbance, on December 3rd, 1854.