SIR GEORGE GREY'S HISTORY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4357, 8 March 1875, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY'S HISTORY.

(From the Auckland Star.) Most of our readers are more or less familiar with the New Zealand career of Sir George Grey, and also with the important part he took in connection with the Kaffir disturbance in Cape Colony ; but the brief sketch of his career, given in the following short biography, I which we take from "Men of the Time," will, no doubt, be read with great interest just now. It will be observed that Sir Grey Grey is now sixty-three years of age : —"Sir George Grey, K.C.8., posthumous son of Lieut.-Col. Grey, of the 30th Foot, who fell at Badajos in 1812, was educated at Sandhurst College, and entered the army about 1829, but soon after retired with the rank of captain. 'ln 1839: he took a leading part in exploring the interior of what is now denominated Western Australia. Iu 1841 he was appointed Governor ef South Australia, and held that post till 1846, when he was nominated Governor of New Zealand. There he displayed such administrative talents that he was created in 1848 a K.C.B. (Civil division), and in 1854 was advanced to the Governorship of the Cape of . Good Hope, which lie held until 1861, when he was requested by the Colonial Office to resume the Governorship of New Zealand, in the hope that his tact and firmness would bring the war raging there to a satisfactory conclusion. In this he succeeded, and the insurrection of the Maoris in 1863-4 was, under his auspices, by the energy and skill of General Cameron, suppressed. Sir G. Grey is the author of 'Journals of Discovery in Australia,' published in 1841 ; ' Polynesian Mythology and Traditions of New Zealand,' in 1855; 'Proverbial Sayings of the Ancestors of the New Zealand Race,' in 1855," and other works on New Zealand.