Where the date of writing was not printed, or was printed incorrectly in the Morning Post, it has been added in square brackets on the basis of the list of published letters in Appendix II of La Nauze’s edition.31 Endnotes 1 JA La Nauze in the Introduction to his selected edition of the letters to the Morning Post. [...] This the Premier can accomplish only by the aid of the representative of the Crown, and it is certain that the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Hugh Nelson, an ex- Premier of one of the first reconstructions of “the continuous Ministry” and present President of the Council, will consent to nothing of the kind except under extreme compulsion. [...] Scenes of disorder, such as were witnessed in the closing days of the session, were not due merely to the summer temperature or to the smallness of the Government majority, but very largely to the absence of men of light and leading from the political arena. [...] It reappeared once more, and probably for the last time, before the court, at the end of December, when the miners made their last effort to defeat the reduction in the hewing rate of which the owners had given notice for the 1st of this month. [...] The crucial question for the Council is to what extent it shall accept the verdict of the country given at the recent general election in the shape of a decisive vote of confidence in the Morgan coalition and its platform.
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