SIR GEORGE GREY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 221, 2 September 1875, Page 4

SIR GEORGE GREY.

The Syduey Stockwhip ha 3 the following : — "When Greek meets Greek, as the old proverb states, a most interesting and obstinate conflict takes place. The people of New Zealand have now, as it appears, an opportunity of ascertaining whether the same re. cult ensues wbeo Governor meets Governor. Sir George Grey, the exViceroy of that colony, has betaken himself to tha head of the Parliamentary Opposition, and has signalled his advent to that important poet by fir'mg a terrific broadside into the castle of the Mnrquis of Normanby. It is the beginning of a war between the old regime and the new ; between a deposed potentate and the reigning one; and like moat wars of the kind, it will/ probably be neither easily settled nory creditable to either combatant. Sir George Greg is a very excellent old gentleman who has done the State some service in the past, but who, with the infirmities of age, seems to have some share of the rashness of youth. The course he pursues is very undignified. He ought to have descended to the floor of Parliament; least of all ought he to have assailed that Queen's deputy who occupies the very seat in which Sir George Grey himself once sat. It is like Charlemagne putting of! his crown, and going out in a flannel nightcap, satis culottes, to slang Kiog Pepio. It is like a ricketty old Emperor, who has been put out to nurse, blaspheming against the Empire because his porridge ia cold."