SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
NEW PLYMOUTH. February 8. The Ministerial party arrived this morning. Sir George Grey will be banquetted at 4 o’clock. He speaks in the evening, and goes on to Wellington by steamer to-morrow night. Mr Sheehan returns by the coast, and will visit Hawera, Carlyle, and Wanganui. At the banquet, Sir George Grey responding to the toast, Our Guests” spoke very briefly, but in high terms of the place. Mr Sheehan in responding said the keystone of the native policy would be that they would suffer a great delay,-for the sake of peace, believing in a few years all anger of a native war would be at an end. They would seek to benefit the Maori as welt as the European.
From what he had seen of the district thai day, it would be the people’s own fault if the place was not a large one in a short space of time. Sir G. Grey addresses a meeting to-nighL He will probably not leave here before fo-iriorrow evening.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 294, 9 February 1878, Page 2
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