The Globe. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1877.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 826, 14 February 1877, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1877.

The attitude assumed by Sir George Grey and Mr Macandrew during the last session of the Assembly on the Abolition question does not appear to have very favourably impressed the Pall Mall Gazette. That journal, in a short article, comments in severe terms upon the factious opposition manifested by those gentlemen. The answer which the Governor sent to the notorious despatch of Sir George Grey to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is described as a “ very caustic and conclusive” one. Speaking of the famous bombardment telegram, which our contemporary quotes, it says —“ It is melancholy to state that these solemn appeals were received by the Chambers with * loud laughter,’ and that Lord Carnarvon, undisturbed by the menace of revolution, telegraphed the following reply to the Governor— ‘ You may inform Mr Macandrew and Sir George Grey that the Act was duly allowed on the advice of the law officers, and cannot he disallowed, I trust that there is no real risk of constitutional disturbances, and have full confidence in your judgment.’ ” The opinion expressed by the Pall Mall Gazette is no doubt shared in by all thinking men at home. The futile attempt of the Otago Convention to interest people in the colony is proof of the opinion entertained on the question here. We have now, we suppose, heard the last of the doings of that body. They have decided not to send home Sir George Grey and Mr. Macandrew, but to forward the petition by post to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. _ They intend to remain an organisation for the purpose of watching “ the interests of the colonists against the efforts of the Centralists.” It must be a source of deep consolation to the colony at large to le am that this decision has been arrived at. We can breathe freely, and go about our ordinary business with a light heart, now that our interests are being token care of by those self-elected protectors. Their efforts in the past have been productive of such vast good to the colony, that we can well trust our future in their hands.