Copy of Further Dispatches Which Have Passed Between His Excellency the Governor and the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Somce Januaruy Last, Relative to Affairs on the Frontier (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...and of the semi-political duties connected with them, it will be, I think, difficult for the Ministers now here to leave the frontier and return to Cape Town. Hardly a day passes without some important question arising, which requires to be immediately disposed of on the spot, and the telegraph will prove but a sorry substitute for the power of local supervision. It is not my province to dwell on ministerial arrangements within the cabinet itself, which may require the sanction of Parliament, but I may, without being misunderstood, express my conviction that it will be impossible for the work of Parliament to be efficiently carried on unless there be Responsible Parliamentary Ministers for Military Affairs and Police aswell as for Native Affairs--I do not presume to offer, unasked, any opinion as to whether these departments should te represented in Parliament by separate Ministers, or by Under-Secretaries with a seat in the House, after the English fashion; but I doubt if it is possible for the business of theColony in the Departments 1 have named, to be properly carried on without an expansion of the present parliamentary and ministerial machinery. 1 cannot speak too highly of the energy and ability shown by the Hon. Mr. Merrimnn for months past, whilst he has been discharging the usual functions of a minister of war and poliee on this frontier, but I should be untrue to the interests of the Colony if I did not state to Ministers my conviction that the duties which Mr. Merriman has latchbeen discharging must continue to require the undivided attention of a separate Minister, and that they cannot be safely left combined with the other duties which in ordinary times require the full attention of the present cabinet ministers, and the officials, of their dep...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...and of the semi-political duties connected with them, it will be, I think, difficult for the Ministers now here to leave the frontier and return to Cape Town. Hardly a day passes without some important question arising, which requires to be immediately disposed of on the spot, and the telegraph will prove but a sorry substitute for the power of local supervision. It is not my province to dwell on ministerial arrangements within the cabinet itself, which may require the sanction of Parliament, but I may, without being misunderstood, express my conviction that it will be impossible for the work of Parliament to be efficiently carried on unless there be Responsible Parliamentary Ministers for Military Affairs and Police aswell as for Native Affairs--I do not presume to offer, unasked, any opinion as to whether these departments should te represented in Parliament by separate Ministers, or by Under-Secretaries with a seat in the House, after the English fashion; but I doubt if it is possible for the business of theColony in the Departments 1 have named, to be properly carried on without an expansion of the present parliamentary and ministerial machinery. 1 cannot speak too highly of the energy and ability shown by the Hon. Mr. Merrimnn for months past, whilst he has been discharging the usual functions of a minister of war and poliee on this frontier, but I should be untrue to the interests of the Colony if I did not state to Ministers my conviction that the duties which Mr. Merriman has latchbeen discharging must continue to require the undivided attention of a separate Minister, and that they cannot be safely left combined with the other duties which in ordinary times require the full attention of the present cabinet ministers, and the officials, of their dep...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

42

ISBN-13

978-1-236-12569-9

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9781236125699

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1-236-12569-X



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