HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE.
The Convention was done for the ! Auckland 'Star' b? a « special," whose | imagination excites our ijdmusaf 4P?. The following are choice exttacts "' ■ frop a lengthy d&crTption ,/qf.the'gM hj dav>procee.dings H to that 7 Sjome opposition was offerecl tothe 5 v reio- '" lutfrn to recall the Governor/chMy bv ' r Justices of the Peace/tot the anger against'l :i the Marquis of Noimanby was irrenressflte ' aud the ■trengesirlaneuage of "denunciation was used. The resolution was xjarried onKi . the voices with a- thrilling " Aye V? Great «■ uproar was caused by Captain Wales fltatinr Geor ge<&ey wasin a "queer state of mind. 4 The wildest excitement ensued* - : members springing ix> then- feetf'and gesC ; .culatmg vehemently. 1 never wiifoessed so- ' " excited a bo.ohgoingrgroaning, and hiiminw:' ; ,tJ JfiveryaUuM6n> signal for prolonged cheering. lieve he is not half so popular in Auckland as * here. I could not describe the termß of enthu- - • sawm in which Sir George Grey was spbken) of bv members from every part of the Province. Sir George should.be here instead of at Auckland where ybti, do not half apnrei oiatehim. . • Vif TT °i nas taken all thepluok.out of tflWentralists as tWrepresentation confessedly iB from eyery«orner of the Province without exception You could not imagine the warm sympathy expressed |pr Auckland in the wrongssheka%* ' suffered atthe hands of "the Central Government, an4*he erithußiasfic detenninafcoh to stand' by< Auckland >in the struggle. References to the Blue Banner of Qiago evoked wonderful enthusiasm. The old covenanting iblood is boiling. Wonderfully warm references were.made to Scottish history from ■; downwards.. It has .bee*observed. ui that, with the exception of ten or *;■ the Convention consists'whoUy of men j and certainly the thistte is shaken"' viciously. • ' ~:
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Evening Star, Issue 4284, 18 November 1876, Page 1
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277HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE. Evening Star, Issue 4284, 18 November 1876, Page 1
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