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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 215, 28 August 1875, Page 2

The Otago Guardian says:— "Fitzherbert is the elephant of the Opposition. "With slow and ponderous tread he traverses the ground, and makes up in quantity what he lacks in quality." Speaking of Sir George Grey's utterances at the Hutt, the same journal says: — " It is a comfort to us in the meanwhile to remember that it is only a play — a grand histrionic effort got up regardless of expense. If it were anything else, and all this blood and thunder business was really likely to alarm any old lady out of her seven senses, we should either severely take this mischievous old man to task, or insist upon a ' de lunatico inquirendo,' the Superintendents and Imbecile Persons Act to wit. But as we are convinced itia only a case of harmless hallucination, we think it is best treated with mild palliatives till the lit goes off, which we hope it may do shortly. Meantime, we recommend to Sir George Grey the study of bathos, which is a good remedy for over-earnestness and excitability. Such lines, for instance, as these, descriptive of the memorable feat of a late monarch, ' the King of France, with twice ten thousand men, marched up a hill and then marched down again,' he might profitably keep ra memory, or the old well-worn, classical quotation, which shouldbe none the less dear to a man of learning, however old, ' parturiunt raontes nascitur ridiculus mus,' which means in vernacular English, 'Don't doit Sir George Grey, you'll hurt yourself.' " (For continuation of News see Jourth pagefi