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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 20 March 1878, Page 2

11l the course of one of his recent speeches in the South Sir George Grey spoke as follows:—Very often in the decline of life men think that they will leave the world worse than it was in their youth, and imagine that upon their death all thincs will fall into disorder. Mow, my travels through the country, and my acquaintance with its young men, have satisfied me that myself and those aged persons who are soon to pass away will leave behind them a race of which they may well bo proud — young men as capable of governing a country as any that I have even known in my life — young men as capable of carrying on the country to a pitch of the highest greatness as any of those I have ever been acquainted with. I shall leave the world in the full conviction that it will soon be a better world than I have ever known it; that it will soon bo inhabited by a race more educated than the race which occupied the world when I came into it. I shall leave it with confidence that those who succeed me —for many of whom I entertain sincere admiration — will carry this country on to a pitch greater than I have ever hoped to see it attain; that they will be devoted, zealous, and loyal in the work I have endeavored to carry out, and in doing so they will sometimes mention an old man's name, aud the names of my old friends who have endeavored to give them an example of what they should attempt to do, and to cheer them on a course which I am satisfied they will all ever follow. The Melbourne correspondent of some of the Victorian provincial papers remarks : — Should the present negotiations for peace between the nations who protest so much, yet continne to prepare actively for war, fail by an unexpected disturbing cause being introduced, it may be worth while to recollect that our banks contained, on the Ist of January last past, £2,109,792 worth of coined metals, and bullion to the value of X328.563. A little haul of two millions and a half might almost encourage a few cruisers to risk the perils Involved in dashing over the thin lines of torpedoes which our military duennas consider sufficient (or our protection. . A writer in the Wellington Argus says: — They tell me that the scene on the Queen's wharf when the Soldcne Opera troupe departed was touching. The last thing seen of them as the vessel rounded the outermost point was an adieu waved from a porthole by a lovely — leg.