The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1888. Sir George Grey.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2856, 24 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1888. Sir George Grey.

Now that Sir George Grey has disposed of his island home, his Auckland friends are endeavouring to do something for him to show their appreciation of the benefits he lias undoubtedly conferred upon them. A short time ago they explained to New Zealand what a splendid Agent-General lie would make. Only genuine enthusiasm could blind their judgment to the fact that giving this old Knight an appointment of this sort would be very like asking "the old man of the sea" to get astride of the neck of the Colony. When the agent-general idea fell dead, the Grey worshippers proposed about the most nonsensical scheme ever projected, They actually contemplated getting up a monster and monstrous petition to the Home office to get the poor old man reinstated in his oldlodgings, as Governor of New Zealand. In this particular instance, it would almost appear that those who know Sir George most intimately, desire to give him a new career of honor, profit and glory. No doubt Sir George himself favors the idea of beginning life again, and is quite prepared to go into harness despite his advanced years. Possibly he has before his vision the example of the old lady, who " Lived to a hundred and ten", " And fell from the top of a cherry-tree then."

He will not, however, persuade the. people of New Zealand that he is fit for active service. He is the light of other days of both the Conservative and Liberal parties in New Zealand. He has tried every phase of Colonial existence, and has, we fear, to a very considerable extent, playedhimself out. The feeling of idolatry with which Sir George Grey is regarded in the City of Auckland does not extend to other parts of the Colony, and the expression of it must be regarded as a purely local affair. Sir George and his Auckland friends are a splendid mutual admiration society, the former has given the city of the North a magnificent collection, and the latter should respond by offering the former a statue. The virtues of the old knight ought now to be expressed in bronze or marble, the time having passed for embodying them anew in a Court costume.