CORRESPONDENCE. SIR GEORGE GREY'S MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1472, 8 December 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. SIR GEORGE GREY'S MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Sir George Grey has carried us out of the quiet political atmosphere of Te Awamutu, and fain would launch us at once into a chasm of political strife, considering himself the champion of the liberal party in New Zealand, and who, in this year more than in former years, has found cause of complaint in the exclusion of his party from, office. Now the country has the greatest confidence in the Hall Ministry, and the general policy adopted by them. We have not read anything in the history of New Zealand more complete than the taking of Te Whiti, and the complete annihilation of the Farihaka nuisance ; and certainly none more pleasant to the residents of the North Island. It cannot be a matter of surprise that a good deal of disappointment, and a bitter kind of disappointment should have resulted from the policy of the extravagance and waste of the public funds during the Grey administration. Sir George Grey does certainly belong to the first class of politicians. He really does know a great deal, and can tell it very well. But he has long ago shown his hand, therefore we know all his tricks. I cannot look upou it as a very high art, however, to reproduce the ordinary daily conversation of common place bu&h and aea lawyeis. Sir George, however, has a demand for this sort of thing (realism, as it may be called), and his party here can supply the market to any extent. I think, m the present venture, that he has made a mistake in coming forward to advise the electors of Waipa in the selection of a reprepentative, but, putting aside this character, and the VVaipa, the address, as an addrc-e, appear* to be one of the weakest which Sir George has ever delivered. Still Sir George possessed sufficient art to make his tale be felt, and even, in places, enjoyable to his admirers. But he throws such a dark cloud over all, that I am nearly tempted to throw the goose quill to the one side and declare not to finish. However, this much further, I can say that some of his imaginary descriptions are painted with great vigour, and that a certain life-like tone hangs over his stories. I hope, for the credit of City East, that the concluding portion of his address delivered in Te Awamutu is not true, for certainly he has overstepped the modesty of human nature. I really pity the old gentleman for comine so far, stooping so low, to pick up so little.— l am, &c, An Electok. VVaipa, December sth, 1881.

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