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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4269, 6 September 1882, Page 2

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Tliis day. Possibility of Sir G. Grey being Appointed Governor. It is stated Sir G. Grey intends going to England by the mail steamer. It is further alleged that Mr Macandrew and other members of the Liberal party some time ago addressed a letter to Mr Glad stone, inquiring as to the desirableness of Sir George Grey being appointed the next Governor of New Zealand, it being understood that Sir Arthur Gordon's departure was final, and that Sir George Grey's appointment might tend to smooth away and finally settle all remaining native difficulties. The story further goes that a reply has been receired

from Mr Gladstone couched in somewhat ambiguous language, but conveying in vague diplomatic terms an idea that the. English Government are not unfavorably disposed towards the suggestion* • It is. reported from Alexandra that Pahupahi denies having stated that Barlow fired the shots. £?ed Thomas. The following appears in the Queenslander of August 19: —On Monday last, before the police magistrate, Edward Thomas and Silas Eddy were brought up after several adjournments and charged with the larceny of gold from the Day Dawn Company's machine. The principal evidence against them, or rather against Thomas, was that of Edith Smith, publican, to ".whom ".-Thomas admitted haviog stolen the gold, offered to sell it to her. She had several conversations with him about the gold, in which he promised at one time to bring it to her, and at another to show her where it was concealed. The, evidence, however, was considered insufficient, and the prisoners were accordingly discharged.

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