SIR GEORGE GREY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 3 October 1888, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

The announcement that Sir George Grey la going Home and wlll'vMt Ireland and probably leotare on Home Rule, will probably cause some surprise. If h. does this we have very little expectation that the Kmalnder of hla which 1» to be baok la New Zealand m time foi next aeeeion, will be carried out If Sir George Gray espouses the popular c.vie, In Ireland, which, ofoourae, he would do. his aid would certainly be eagerly accepted Sf m pirty, and hit petition diplomatically and as a oblonfet, and hir eloquence and ability, would, render b»m a valuable ally. We may be prettj. Ba re that a aeat In the Imperial Parliament would very Boon be placed at hla filepoaal, an offer whloh he would almohfe certainly deem it hla duty to accept. If he goei Home, aa proposed, ire certainly ohall not expeot to i 6B him In New Zealand again and we are by no means eu» that hi would not enjoy a larger spheve of practical usefulneia In the Home Rule ranks m the Houae of Oommona than be can now nnd In the. Houae\pf Repregentativei fnl s t G r rg ,ift 8y^ h8 JSSSSi m Ireland, will have to be verj oarefiS' aato whatheaay. there. We hawfre.: quently heard him usa ianguaga on the platform and In the Houae here which if; uaed In Ireland under the preaent regimewould undoubtedly oonnign the speaker to, gaol a« a criminal. Sir George Grey i* too advanced In age, too enfeebled m body, to undergo the hardships of prlion dieclpline, with a plank bed and bread and water diet, m Tullamore Gaol. He is nofc a atrong man m vigorous health like Mr Mandeville, \yho waa thua done to. death, f n^ he « w ?. uld . Boon ■oo.oamb U sabieoted to Mr Balfour'sprenorlptlonforpseaervinff Uw and order m Ireland bir George Grey will have to bo very cautious I! he eaßaya to speak on Home Rule, »ntl he will have to bear constantly «- n m m & t h a fact that he is speaking' mi n Ireland, and to see him fall a mwtyc even fn R J oauae, and b Z wm rlbk doing io if he tsS aI p ar fc io political agitation m. l^xand.— v Evening Poat."