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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1786, 23 September 1874, Page 3

It masfcindeed be gratifying to Mr. Ju*fice Gray to find such unanimous expressions of sympathy and'regret at his failing health, and the promf^itudo witli which members of both sides of tiio Hou?e bare; testimooey to hia labors in the. eervice of the country. On tfco proposition of the Premier to increase this retiring allowance, Mr. Macandreir, amongst* host of otiiers'T paid a high eulogium to hi» unremitting exertions during the last dozen of years, and Btated: that; ho had completfelir shattered his health in his zeal for the wclfnra of the country. Whes Mr. "Wilson Gray quitted sVictoria, some fourteen years since, so: high was he held by the public, f r whose good ho had labored iv Parliament for many y parg —during which time he had refused seats in various Cabinets —that a p .'.blic sub • scription to present him with a fitting testimonial,was organise^., In tho course of afVir days^ fiyel th<^snn& pound* jprero raised for that purpose. But although Mr. Gray was far from bf ing a rich man, he declined the proffered testimonial, and,landed on the shores of New Zealand, when far adtanced in life, to commence the world anew.. A worthy tribute was paid tp his ability and honc^'y of purpose when he iwasieievoteot to; rtlie^Mevir Zealand Bench, and how he has acquitted himself of the trust needs bo comment. Some few years since, anioflerfwas made to him^ by t|je,Vietori«i Mtorney-General v dfa Beat amongst Tthe Supreme Court Judges of that Colony, but it was declined, on the plea of the gratitude he considered be owed the New Zealand people. —N.Z. Tablet.