SIR GEORGE GREY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1480, 11 September 1883, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY.

Sir George Grey (says the "Australasian") is continuing his selfappointed tusk of hindering the pro,-.,. gress of practical business in tho,New. Zealand ; Parliament by introducing measures intended to provide against all possible eventualities. Tho latest of the hon. member's measures which the House has had to reject was one ' providing for the introduction of, the plebiscite system by taking the opinion : of the electors in this manner when the two Houses fail to agree. What place this provision, would fill in the constitution of the future, according to Sir George Grey, in which the Upper House will be abolished, does not very clearly appear. It is hardly possible for Victorians to discuss plebiscite proposals very patiently. They are associated in our minds with the period of greatest degradation parliamentary institutions ever passed through in this colony. They were part of a. system of violence and shameless corruption, and undisguised greed and '■ impudent tergiversation, a system which it was desired to perpetuate by subjecting the deliberations of Parliament to the haphazard decisions excited majorities of the electors. - The V system, broke down here when .the r|k'" people passed through their fever-tide ' of passion and regained their common sense, and it will be very long before the most audacious politician . will again dare to propose a plebiscitory Bystem in Victoria. ■ Possibly its debased associationa here had gome . . weight with tho New Zealand House'.. of Representatives, which rejected Sir George Grey's Bill by forty-six rotes to twenty-four.