SIR GEORGE GREY'S TELEGRAM.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4023, 19 November 1881, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY'S TELEGRAM.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star )

Sib,—Will the Volunteers support Sheeban, and be regularly sold by Whitaker and Co. ? The proceedings in Auckland re the pay of these men ought to open their eyes as to the election dodges of the present Ministry, especially after the telegram of Sir George Grey yesterday. These Ministerial electioneering tactics are so transparent in the whole of the Paribaka affair that no observer can misunderstand them. There is a Ministry whose cry has been retrenchment, and which they have enforced with a vengeance in some directions, going in for one of the most expensive systems of bribery and corruption ever known in Colonial affairs. Will the country permit such things without a protest loud and deep? We shall see presently. Southern men seem determined to rule this island with an iron rod; and if the cry of the whole island during the comiDg elections is not for Separation the people deserve to be so ruled. No man should be returned to the new Parliament unless he will unreservedly pledge himself to Separation. It is our only hope for true local self government—our only hope to fain the North Island lands for the people, and if it is not speedily accomplished Southern run-holders aDd Forthern land sharks and jobbers, with Mr Sheebao hand and .glove with them, will soon swallow all, and the people generally become their slaves.—l am, &c,

A Membee of the Li«ebal Association.