SIR GEORGE GREY AT DUNEDIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1050, 1 September 1879, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY AT DUNEDIN.

(bt TEUEITRAPH.) Dcsbdis, August 31. Sir George Grey's mass meeting at the Princess Theaf.ro on Saturday night was attended by an immense audience. The tower part oi the theatre, including the atatce, passages, and space generally occupied by the orchestra was . lenseiy packed. A large number of aea-.s in the dress circle were occupied by ladies, and every inch oI room was titled. The meeting m iv most respectable and orderly one, bat can scarcely be said to have been enthusiiwtic. The Mayor was in the chair. Sir C». (Irey did not appear to be in form, but, nevertheless, he spoke wall, and was frequently applauded. The interruptions were few, and there appeared tii ho a general desire to listen quit■ r.! y to I \tliat was said. The first. parr, of hi* I Kilress wiu devoted to the I (It! San I the Constitution \ct he sent I Homo was simply >y«:>l by S.r -f I Packmgton altering i" s.. as c.» make rhI Fpnoc If o use a nominee one in.-iJtM.ii of an I ulim.:;. ;ve one. Sir J. Pu:"-.m ;* n, in -. in ; [ this Constitution Act in the H :se of Commons, simply »p.-k- tY'-rn a •••• -»j-.-v:<:h ho (Grey) had sent him. but very tvi.lm „'ly took to himself the si.-. t.u*. followed. lie explained ri.jt his reason for leaving the Colot.y before the C'-'U-fat was br> into f<»rc«J i«xi bocaus*) he nail been fourteen years a--.av, und ho wanted to see his mother, s'.n wait on the point of death, and who dv-l bofnro he reached England. He then dmilf. with matters now bet"re the eoun'rj, in the same mariner as elsewhere. I: had bnen said that he hail referr .1 t- fi-'.-r----bury as an " duckling.' He meant that as in the words i f the old story, the lillly duckling would turn out a a .van. He thought lie would be returned for »'ar:t. rbury, and that his prediction tr-eddle fulfilled. He occupied some time ma j tut'iitation of charsfe* made against the I Government re the Thames- W.ukato Kail-

way. A, vote (if thank a pcr>p<wrl by Mr. Stent, st'comieit hy Mr. liariitM, a;:J airnud unanimously.