GRAND OLD MEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2464, 30 November 1886, Page 2

GRAND OLD MEN.

[Fbou the Evening Pbess,] The following correspondence, which haa been widely published at Hoiuo, speaks for itaelf : "Kawau, Auckland, New Zealand. "My Dear Sir,—At the time you wore bo preßaed with difficulties in the House of Commons regarding your Irish policy, I mt anxious that you should be gladdened by knowing with what rog.wd and esteem you were looked upon by the majority of the people of this country and its leading men, and a« the Assembly was sitting I drew up an : address to, you of & few lines, which fifty of the leal in# men immediately signed. ■ 1 think you might like to havo the original to replace the telegram which I forwarded to you. 1. therefore have ventured to enclose the original to you. I beg to express my-hopes, that you may yotgive effect to the great line of policy

which you brought forward, and remain'" truly yours, 1 . "G. Gftir." 11 The Eight, Hon. W. E.Gladstonfli" The addres3 rati in the simple wojifc "jOur; sympathies are with yoli.V and there-Mowed the signatures.of' about 'fifty; members of the General-Assemtlf. • sg : f t .Thefollowing-isMr repWi— ' #r ■&.%, 'if of JSew fifly-in-.tiuniber), which yipv( fiayb : send by this new 'added 'to-Jp' manyprevious ones • from. all. quarteAjrf world, that, 'ifl company, with lay colleagues, I have been pursuing a course . • < favourable at, once to the happiness of * Ireland and to the safety and renown of ' j the British empire. 1 have tha honor to remain, my dear sir, most faithfully ' yours, (Signed) ,",W. E. Qwdstosjs," ; . Right Hou, SirGeor}>fSby." ; , The point of the joke is tliat tUvas not : : V The Riglifc. Hoip.~Sir; George Grey I afc ,Y all' who o'ngiaatea~th(i':address to lb. Gladstone, but Mr Eugene O'Connor, ; ' M.H.R. for Biilier. What is more Bir .. George held back aad rather threw cold water on tjitf affairi until he,'found that, . one after; another,, members were being •iuduced liy various kiiids of Dersuaaioa sign it>. Then lie ovinced great <intemfc', in it, and : eventually it was givento him. , tobe sont to HxGladatonebecause it was ,}fe. ' supposed his name would ba more farailiar to the Grand Old Man than Mr ] . O'Connor's. Uojy we see the sequel ; Alas, poor Eugene I \