The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1883.
The robbery of the colonial estate is still being made a study by those in whose hands is placed the public security. It is being circulated in Auckland that Sir George Grey has agreed to join the Government, and the,origin of the rumor is said to be that Mr Bussell and other kindred spirits are engaged in amalgamating the New Zealand Land Co. with the venture got up by Mr Mr Larkworthy in London, through that high-souled native Sydney Taiwhanga. To further this scheme a private Bill is required to give the N.Z.Co. weight in London, and to grant exceptional powers in the colony. Further objects of this unholy alliance are freely spoken of, such as the amalgamatiou of various companies holding European lands throughout the colony; and, it has been asserted that the combination is with a view to forming a great land monopoly which will really rule the country. Such a villainous scheme to filch the land of the colonists is well worthy of those geniuses who have in the past despoiled the people of their natural heritage, and who will continue to do so unless some bold and determined effort be made to put a atop to such a system of theft.
Names artf freely mentioned in connection with this strange venture, and mirabile dictu, some of the most loyal supporters of the Kawau knight are amongst those mixed up with it. The patriotic DeLautour, the dutiful Seymour George, and the harmless McDonald, M.H.R.'s, are directors of the project. It is thought that Messrs Tole and Harris are likely to follow Sir George in the matter, and it is positively stated that Messrs Moss and Cadman have positively refused to support the bill desired and required by the land jobbing combination. Further particulars as to the dissension in the Cabinet on the matter—how Mr Bryce is opposed to the scheme, and how those Ministers who are not in accord with it—are freely discussed; it is said that the ofrject ef the combination is to get rid of the obstructors and form a j Ministry which will carry the bill through and that all the powerful influence of the Russell party, and those who can be dictated to by it throughout the colony, will be brought to bear for the purpose of legalising the land robberies to be perpetrated. The statements are so startling that it is well to pause ere credence is given to even an infinitesimal portion of them. We cannot accept it as fact that Sir George Grey would join in such a company, that he would forswear all his political creed ; become allied with elements which he , has always bitterly opposed ; identify himself with a party whose iniquities he has in the past made it a study to expose, and act in direct contradiction of those views he has so often expressed regarding the land and its spoilers. We are assured that the politics of the coming session will largely, though secretly, turn upon the success of this gigantic project, but it seems impossible that the philanthropic knight can have lent himself to so base a scheme, as it is rumoured he has, and very BtroDg evidence is required to remove the scales from our eyes—if scales they be—and shew us that * the political love w# have so fondly cher ished has proved unfaithful to us. It is no matter of mere doubt in the cases of the other names mentioned by us. They are of individuals whose stability we never seriously thought of. The addition of the name of Mr Rees, ex M.H.E., to the report would perhaps add a connecting link, when his presence in the North, his negotiations with the Native Chiefs, Wahanui—whom Sir George Grey is about to visit—being amongst their number, are remembered it would appear that there is some foundation existing for these marvellous rumors; yet we still must refuse to believe that our faith has been misplaced ; or that we should diminish our sincerity in the man we have so long trusted.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4501, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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688The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1883. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4501, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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