SIR GEORGE GREY IN SYDNEY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2174, 12 March 1891, Page 1

SIR GEORGE GREY IN SYDNEY.

Sydney, March 7. At the Town Hall to-day, Sir George (*rey was presented with an address from New Zealanders resident in Bydney. There was a great concourse of people present, including many leading citizens. On rising to express his thinks' for (he presentation, Sir George Grey received a tremendous oyation. In the course of a most eloquent address, he said :—We in this, a new nation,. were, an example to the Old World, how under a proper system we might live in peace without keeping men under arms for ever, simply to slaughter each other. Everything had been done in the old nations by various devices to divide peop'e into two classes—one of extreme wealth and the other of extreme poverty ; and this stite of things could only be ended by calling into ex.stance a new nation with unfettered laws euited to the moment. Mis heart moved as he looked down the long vista from Sydney to Melbourne and Adelaide to Perth, thence across Oape, Colony, and through Africa ; all founded by the same race of people which had done great things in the colony. England's success in colonisation was, he thought, due to the freedom which permitted the British people to go where they liked, bound only to England by tieß of affection. He asked them to conceive what a career Australia would have under a union such as the United States of America,and what an opening, it would give, to the people. In another lifetime such as his, it would be n great nation. Regarding the Pacific Islands he thought it would be the duty of Australian statesmen to consider what raee would be the most suitable to inhabit them. Ihere was every ressoa.to fear that the native raoes. were beooming extinct, and with such prospects as .the Australians possessed the people would haye more noble aspirations than other people ever had.

Sir John Robertson and Mr G. R. Dibbs welcomed Sir George Grey to Australia on behalf of the people.