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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2056, 6 August 1875, Page 2

Sib Geobge Gtbey was a Governor of New Zealand in troublous'times, and is - now Superintendent of Auckland as well as a member of the House of Representatives. As owner of thj . fcla.ncT qf Kawau, lie js also a wealthy man. He is therefore listened to with diffidence and attention in the House, partly s and very properly on account of his age and the position he held, past and present, and partly and not so properly on the TTQrldlT maxim-*.* * '* A3ciibe but to a lord the happy Hues, How tko wit brightODß, how the scene refinei! Fancy Mr Thomas Luther Shepherd calling upon members to contend for the rights and privileges of the people (as if colonists had not liberty enough', and probably a little to spzre), and telling $he House !he would resists its" aoti if to the death "—that he would fight against the laws of the colony in Supreme Courts and Judicial Committees, and, in sho^fc, that he would turn rebel and martyr rolled into one. Fancy the thing. Would not members laugh at it, xnd would not the House empty and Bellamy* fill with great rapidity under the circumstances —Tribune. ' .