SIR GEORGE GREY AND MR. MACANDREW.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4945, 27 January 1877, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY AND MR. MACANDREW.

(PEH PRESS AGENCY). Donbdin, Friday. It appears that the proposal of the Otago Convention to send Sir George Grey and Mr Macandrew to England will come to nothing Mr. Macandrew wrote to the Council of the Convention expressing his readiness to undertake the mission; but SirG. Grey is snot prepared to go, and on January 18 he telegraphed to Mr Macandrew as follows : " To Mr. Macandrew.—Am still, regret to say, unwell, and cannot move to Auckland. There is no hope of my being able to leave New Zealand for some time.—George Grey." Mr. Macandrew subsequently forwarded a letter as follows :—" To the President of the Conference." Superintendent's office, 22nd January, 1876. Sir, —Since writing to you on the 6th ult., I have had several communications from Sir'George Grey. I regret to say that, from the state of his health, there is no hope of his being able to leave New Zealand for some time; Under these circumstances, perhaps it may be well for the Council of the Convention to meet for the purpose of considering the position.—J. Macandrew." ' . The Council of the Convention will shortly meet to consider the matter. Balclutha, Friday. Correspondence between Mr. Macandrew, Sir George Grey, and the President of the Otago Convention is published in the Clutha Leader to-day, showing that in consequence of the illness of Sir George Grey the mission to England must be postponed. The Leader suggests that the money collected to defray the ■expenses of the delegates should now be expended in trying the question of the legality of the Abolition Act in a court of law, and urges that this would be a popular mode of disposing of the funds.