EARL GRANVILLE AND SIR GEORGE GREY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 41, 17 February 1870, Page 2

EARL GRANVILLE AND SIR GEORGE GREY.

0 New Zealand has no warmer supporter in England than our late Governor, Sir George Grey. By the papers received by the mail lately arrived, we find that he has just entered into a correspondence with Earl Granville on the subject of the now famous despatch, which he most severely criticises. In one of his letters the following paragraph occurs : — " The Europeans are now called upon, without giving any commensurate reward to those tribes who have shown themselves tried and noble friends, to recognise the authority of the Maori King, which has been supported by these barbarians who have inflicted such ills upon them, and who havo

been guilty of such atrocious crimes. I feel sure the colonists of New Zealand will think that Rome in the days of her utmost decline, when her standards were withdrawn from point to point never -humbled herself further than this before a barbarian foe. They will feel that such an order as this appears to issue from a minister who regards the strength and majesty of the empire as fading away, but they will also feel that if it is sent forth from age and decay it comes to a youthful nation, fresh and vigorous, just springing into life, ou which times yet to come will look back for the example it gave and left for the strong peoples who were to spring from it; and I believe the New Zealand men will give an example worthy of the race from which they have come — the example of sacrificing all they have, and dying, if necessary, to a man before they will obey a command which would require them to recognise the authority of a so-called native king, whose servants, allies, and friends have cruelly murdered their men, women, children, and faithful natives, with circumstances of atrocity which make the blood run cold to think of. And in resisting to the last extremity the recognition of the authority of such a king, the New Zealand people will believe that they will carry with them the almost universal sympathy of their fellowsubjects in Great Britain, which sympathy and regard I feel sure they will still further entitle themselves to by the justice, mercy, and generosity with which they will deal with the native race, now, equally with themselves, abandoned by the British Government to a most trying struggle. A Medical Man in Melbourne has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a female patient. The evidence wenttosbow that thedoctorwasintoxicated during the accouchement of the unfortunate woman.

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