SIR GEORGE GREY AND HIS BETE NOIR.
The Wellington correspondent of the Dunodin " Herald " telegraphed on August 10th : " Sir George Grey contrived to have a parting shot at Governor Robinson yesterday morning. He got hold of a • New Zealand Times ' reporter, and crammed him with tho information that the Governorship of the Cape had been offered to Sir Arthur Gordon prior to its boing offered to Sir Hercules Robinson, which statement duly appeared in the ' New Zealand Timns.' The real facts of the case are that Sir Bjrtlo Frere was recalled on the 2nd of the month, and Sir Hercules Bobinson got his telegram on the 3rd of the month, so that the offer oould not have been made to Sir Arthur Gordon, for the simple reason that there was no means of communicating with him in Fiji. The statement that the offer was made to Sir Arthur Gordon seemed most improbable on the face of it, and an enquiry resulted in finding that the authority for the statement was Sir George Grey. Tho * New Zealand Times' ' people have under the circumstanoes made known who crammed their reporter."
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2018, 12 August 1880, Page 3
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