SIR GEORGE GREY.

Evening Post, Issue 52, 8 April 1865, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY.

The London Correspondent of the Nelson Examiner supplies that journal with the following ;—; — " The New Zealand mail brings us small comfort yet ; and is likely to do so as long as the present arrangement continues. /There is one comfort for you, to be gleaned from the month's papers, and that is, that the British public, always slow to entertain new ideas, is getting more and more to think that an ' old woman,' however well he may be supposed to discharge the arduous duties of a peaceful colony when it is all plain sailing, is not quite the fittest person for a Governor of New Zealand at the present juncture. The more intelligent portion of the Press especially urges the reoil of Sir George Grey as the only salvation for New Zealand as a well uffected colony. Last Saturday's Spectator publishes a letter from a Tarauaki settler, which sets forth admirably the case of the colony versus the (grand) mother country, and, in a brief comment upon it, speaks of the alternative of a separation from the mother country or internal discord as the probable result of ' that spurious and utterly unscrupulous humanitarianism in this country which supposed it could serve the Moaris by libelling the motives and actions of the colonists to an unparalleled extent.' ' Our conduct to New Zealand,' says the writer, ' is not only unjustifiable, but almost inexplicable.' But if I can secure you a copy I will send you the paper itself, that you may reprint both letter and comment if you please, in extenso. The Times correspondent from your new capital, Wellington, writes to the same effect, on the whole*"