THE EVENING MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 239, 27 January 1877, Page 2

THE EVENING MAIL,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1877.

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SO there are to b© no delegates from the <Hago> Convention to the foot of the Throne, after all The Knight of Kawsrc, wom ottt h* mind, and vveafc ira body, is usable to tear \ imsetf away from the «i\onn& ©I hi* lonely isle in order to undertake a somewhat equivocal mission, and the eturdy fight of the last Session has been followsd by a reaction which has completely prostrated the old war-horse. Am long as the battle Sir George' nobly bore up, and was seen in the thickest of the fight; but the stroll* has told upon the shattered frame of the old man, and he is> now paying the p«ndty of hi* temerity. Feeling, no doabt, that his adherents wottM be expecting prompt action with regard to the mission he had undertaken, and also fueling his inability to> perform the task allotted t»> and accepted by him, he has despatched the following telegram to- the fc»te Superintendent of Otag*>:--" Auckland, 18th January, INT.—Am still, r«gret to say, unwell, and cannot move to Auckland. There is n*> hope of my being able to leave Kew Zealand for some time— George Qsxt" Before the receipt of the telegram, the Superintendent had forwarded » tetter to Mr. Thompson, President of the Convention, freely accepting the mission which he had been asked to undertake, hot we presume that now, on ibl« to obtain the company of the Hon. Captain VimSMX, and bereft of his Fid us Achates, the delegation b at an end. Whatever chance there would be in getting a hearing la Downing-street, with Sir George's political and Parliamentary influence to hack it op, with Mr. Macakwsew as the sole representative of the Convention, no such result should be expected. Under these circumstances, we presume, the Southern leader deprived of his Northern

ally, will abandon the midaion, throw ap the sponge, and, making a virtus of m c js■fty, philosophically accspt the new order of thing*. Wit& regard to the health of ; Snr Gxosos G&st, it b said to be com* pletely ahattared, and to one who has tarn* the weight of three score years, t!*e worry and excitement of a political con-

tatt, suei as he has gone through, moat

fcava telling effect. Private sources state tfrlft th« mental atra : n has been markedly visible, and that lie is far more seriously SB, than hj« will admit to either himself or Other*. This news will be received with

regret by aQ classes, alike by his political

loss aa well as friea is, fur there are r.utie i btrt give Sir Gfloaom Oicay credit for I thorough sincerity anl earnestnes* in what f im baa maintained *nd stinjgled for. § Meantime, the programme whicli was I drawn tip with such a flourish of trumpets, mid so heartily endorsed by the Lords of 4 Convention, is to be quietly shelved, the

f political agitators adopting the AlicawI TflfffT* 1 * tactics* and " waiting for aoineI thing to turn up."