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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 782, 12 October 1853, Page 2

Many tributes to Sir George Grey’s personal and political character have appeared from lime to time both in the New Zealand journals and in those of other colonies, as well as in the English papers; but, perhaps there never has been one in which eulogy rose to a higher point and was more entirely without qualification or reservation than the following which we find in the last number of the Maori Messenger . Agreeing as we do in the substance of the article (however above our subdued flight the soarings of its phraseology may be) we give it a wider circulation by transferring it to our columns. The addresses alluded to in it we have already published.

“ Our native readersare inall probability aware that the Governor, Sir George Grey, having obtained leave of absence from Her Majesty the Queen, is now on the eve of his departure from New Zealand, on a visit to Great Britain. lU His Excellency has already taken his farewell of the inhabitants of the South ; and that amidst the most lively expressions of respectful regret on their part. All classes seem to have vied with each other in manifesting their cordial appreciation of the many great and shining qualities of His Excellency,—qualities alike conspicuous in the Governor and the Man, “ In equal and heartfelt appreciation of the character of Sir George Grey, the Native Race have again and again furnished inconlcslible evidence they especially participate. And it would be surprising indeed if they did not; since to elevate the Native Race in the scale of moral, social, and religious intelligence, has always been the earnest and unremitting aim of Governor Grey. And in all those praiseworthy and benevolent endeavours, his Excellency has been as singularly as happily successful. “When Sir George Grey arrived, he found New Zealand in a stale of ruthless and ruinous warfare. He is about to quit it, not merely in a condition of profound peace, but in one of immediate and hourly increasing prosperity; and with every prospect of a rapid and unexampled progress in all that is dear and desirable to the most ambitious and enterprising nations. These are the facts to which the colonists of the South have so generally and gratefully testified. And we feel it not only a duty, but a privilege to give publicity to their sentiments in this Journal, which owes its origin to the anxiety of Sir George Grey, to promote, in every way, the instruction and information of the native people.”