THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2816, 22 February 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1878.

xf Sir George Grej's reception afc Westporfc was somewhat frigid and undemonstrative, bis subsequent treatment hy the people of that town and other places which he has risked in Westlaud has made amends. Oh landing at Westport, a Press Agency telegram informed us two days ago, that " not a single.cheer nor a bat was raised " (our Auckland contemporaries appear to have suppressed this portion of the message), but the same evening! Sir George and his colleagues were entertained at a banquet, and the Premier afterwards addressed a large meetings and was received with cheers and a tote of thanks. At Greymouth his reception ie described as most enthusiastic, the day being observed as a general holiday, 1000 citizens and 6GO school children assembling to give Sir George and party a warm welcome. " The usual programme followed: Sir George . was shown the "lions" of the place, and entertained afc a banquet in the evening, and his progress every where has been one uniform, triumph. There is likely to be great good resulting from this. Sir George Grey is' making known in his own eloquent words what the policy of next session will be, and thereby familiarising the people with the intentions of the Ministers. Should the efforts made to give effect to -that policy bring about a defeat of the Government, and an" appeal to the country, the issues of that appeal will be well known. It is ten or twelve years tince Sir George Grey visited 1 the West Coast; then it was as Governor of the Colony, and his speeches were confined to returning thanks for addressoi«and other little courtesies extended to the representative of royalty. Now, in the character of Premier, he can confer;;more familiarly with the people, and he appears to have been as successful in carrying his West Goast audiences with him as he has been in other places where he has expounded the Ministerial policy. "■' •