SIR. GEORGE GREY EXPOSED.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2394, 5 December 1881, Page 3

SIR. GEORGE GREY EXPOSED.

[From the “ Press.”! Mr. McCosh Clark has not hitherto been very well known in the southern portion of the colony. Beyond the fact that he has been Mayor of the City of Auckland, was a member of the Railway Commission of 1880, and is a thoroughly respected Auckland citizen of old standing, he has not acquired much general prominence. His comparative obscurity appears, however, to be on*a fair way to be removed. He is now opposing Sir George Grey for the constituency of Auckland City East, and at tho nomination he very properly took occasion to administer to that gentleman a sound castigation for his repeated misrepresentations on a variety of public questions, more especially on the land laws of the colony. But Mr. McOosh Clark did not stop here, and it is well that he did not do so. He assailed Sir George Grey with great effect as the friend of the advocates of tho murder of Irish landlords, and although ho appears to have retracted the statement that Sir George Grey was himself an advocate of assassination, he does not appear to have withdrawn tho allegation that those advocates were to be found amongst his friends. This persistency on tho part of Mr. Clark appears to have irritated his opponent beyond measure. We will just give the facts, and people can then judge for themselves whether Sir George has been unjustly accused. During last session a meeting was held in Wellington in support of the Irish Land League, and was attended by Sir George Grey and a number of members of the House of Representatives. At that meeting the following remarks were made by Mr. John Lnndon, member for Mongonni and Bay of Islands. “As to the shooting of “ landlords, he said, only twenty had “ lost their lives, and when he took into “ consideration tho amount of misery, “ privation, and death caused by laud- “ lords, ho was only sorry one of them “ escaped.” Mr. Lnndon is not a person in any respect upon whom we are anxious to make any remarks. Neither do we propose to do so. Bat he is a friend of Sir George Grey, and we have Sir George Grey’s authority for it. Writing to a Native chief in the Bay of Islands district on tho occasion of the election before last, ho said, send Mr. John Lundon, “ that “ he may be a friend and companion to “me in the House.” The telegrams say that Sir George Grey, after the proceedings at the nomination were over, refused to take the hand of Mr. Clark. It can be readily believed that Sir George may have expressed his unwillingness to do so. But there is no evidence before ns that Mr. McCosh Clark made any overtures of the kind, and under the circumstances ho will be none the worse for going without such an exceedingly doubtful honor.