WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH GEORGEY GREY?

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 28 October 1864, Page 2

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH GEORGEY GREY?

Sih, —What answer does common senso and reason suggest to the above question ? Banishment. Banishment, and to where shall wo banish him ? St. Helena, where the illustrious Frenchman spent the last dajs of his brilliant career. Yes, Sir, it is just my opinion that that is the best course which could be adopted towards that most foolish of Governors. Either that, or else turn him adrift among the runaway Kawau prisoners to act as their guide and adviser—which, in reality, he is doing now to the great detriment of his own countrymen. It is astonishing that the Home Government and people cannot see into his disgraceful conduct. Were they not so much taken up in heaping foul abuse on the New Zealand colonists, they certainly could not help noticing his “ little game.” The Horae papers talk of a removal of troops from the Colony. But what good would that do ? Certainly, if they are determined to-abandon the Colony altogether, that

would be the beat course ; but is such abandonment meditated by the Home Government ? I hope not; I believe not. Ido not think England would stoop to such a low act as to desert one of her most prosperous dependencies merely because through the imbecility of one man—that man his .Excellency Sir George Grey—the war has been delayed, and the world-renowned soldiers of Britain have not been allowed the long-wished for and eagerly sought opportunity of thrashing to their hearts’ content the dusky warriors of New Zealand. /'No, Sir, I have hopes that the naturally just and generous people of our dear native isle will have their eyes opened to the real state of the case : and that the day is not far distant when our oars will no longer be assailed by such opprobrious epithets as “ swindling land-sharks” and “ landrobbers.” I am, &0., BRITON. Napier, 24th Oct., 1864.