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Hague conference. A conference of representatives of different States to consider the question of international peace and kindred subjects. So called because the place of meeting has been The Hague in South Holland (Netherlands). The first Hague Conference was the outcome of a circular letter of the Czar of Russia handed to all the foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. Petersburg on the 24th August, 1898, and as a result the first Peace Conference met on 18th May, 1899. This conference brought about the creation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration, and each of the Powers signing the Hague Arbitration Convention could appoint four persons, who constituted a panel or general list of arbitrators from which as occasion arises selection can be made. The Hague Arbitration Court has dealt with complicated international disputes. A second Peace Conference met at the Hague on 18th June, 1907. Consult Higgins, Hague Conference.Means the convention on the service Abroad of Judici...
British Protected person
British Protected person, is a member of any class of person declared to be a British Protected person by Order in Council under the British Nationality Act, 1981 or by virtue of the Solomon Islands Act, 1978, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(2), 4th Edn., Para 556, p. 390....
Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands. See 6 & 7 Vict. c. 13, amended by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 121; both Acts were repealed by the British Settlements Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 54) (q.v.)....
Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca
Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca. Administered together as a British Colony. See Straits Settlements Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 115)....
Guadalcanal
a mountainous island the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth...
Australia
Australia, an island in the British Dominions, consisting before the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 12), of the separately governed (see, e.g., the New South Wales Constitution Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 54), and the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 55) colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia. See next title....
Bermudas
a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast British colony resort...
Newfoundland
An island on the coast of British North America famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity...
Australasia
Australasia, the inclusive name given to Australia, Tasmania (or Van Diemen's Land), New Zealand, Fiji, and other islands is the Pacific Ocean forming part of the British Dominions. The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60) [repealed by Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (c. 12)], constituted a Federal Council of Australasia 'for the purpose' (as set forth in the preamble) 'of dealing with such matters of common Australasian interest in respect to which united action is desirable.' See next title....
Australia, Commonwealth of.
Australia, Commonwealth of. The association of the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to legislate for the whole of Australia. The legislative powers of the Parliament, which may be found under 39 heads in the 51st paragraph of the Constitution, extend to trade, taxation, defence, coinage, bankruptcy, copyright, marriage, 'the people of any race other than certain aborigines,' immigrants and emigration, 'external affairs,' railway construction, and other matters too numerous to particularize; see Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (Imperial, 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12); A.-G. for Commonwealth of Australia v. Colonial Sugar R...
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