The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1875

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1735, 6 September 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1875

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It is curious to see the manner in which the vindictive spirit cherished towards Sir George Grey occasionally vents itself. Sorely has he trodden on some people's corns, and their chosen form of resentment is in seeking to sap his popularity by misrepresentations of his sayings, efforts, and objects; so that perchance by force of reiteration the people may be brought over to distrust him and so play into the hands of those who hope to live by public plunder. A few weeks ago we exposed the attempt made to show him to be the leader in some great Popish plot, and to incite Orangemen and Protestants generally to distrust him, because, as alleged, Catholics attended the public meetings and were loud in their applause of him. That ruse did not go down, and so far as the columns of the public press show, it appears to have been abandoned. Now, however, by putting words in hia mouth which he never used, it is attempted to make him out as a rebel against the Queen. And we draw the attention of the public to the following : In last Saturday's issues of the morning papers* Sir George Grey's speech of the previous night appears from the "Press Agency." In both papers it is quoted as such. In the Herald Sir George is reported thus : "He for one would assist the people in such a course as that taken in the United States." In the Cross on the same day and from same agency, Sir George is thus reported : "Hefor one would assist the people in such a course as that taken against the mother country oy the American colonies. The italics are our own and mark the difference in the two reports. It is needless for us to say that there is a wide difference, that while the Herald account is mild, and bears a totally different meaning from armed insurrection against the Crown, the Cross count can be susceptible of no interpretation save that Sir George Grey is prepared to head an armed risi-j^ against the Crown of England. Now, which of the two papers has tampered with the speech ? One or other of them must, because the Press Agency sends but fac similes of one and the same message fco the city. We are in a position to decide the question, inasmuch as we have the original in our possession, for this telegram was sent to the Stab, as the night telegram from the Press Agency was sent to the Cross and Herald; and that original was published in the Stab of Friday, and is identical with that which appeared in the Herald of the following morning. We therefore charge the Cross with deliberately and wilfully falsifying the Press Agency telegram of Friday afternoon for the purpose of representing Sir George Grey as a declared rebel against the Crown of England. We challenge the Cross to a denial of this charge. The copy of the telegram can be obtained from the telegraph office and let that be decisive, and we call on the public to observe whether this wrongful and cruel misrepresentation will be admitted or allowed in silence to proceed on its evil way. It is hard to fight against such a system. Sir George Grey haa taken np the cause of the people, and is fighting against fearful odds, and such a dastardly deed as this quite expresses

the extent to which the banded ruffians in Wellington and their hired tools will go to compass his destruction. There is not a more loyal man beneath the Crown of England than is Sir George Grey. Mis statesmanlike mind has conceived a plan for the blending together of the interests of the Empire, and for the binding the colonies and the mother country in unity, interest, and in harmonious action in a manner admitted by great thinkers to be the most feasible practical and effective ever propounded. This is known to have been his hobby for years, and now these miserable creatures of a corrupt system, whose highest conceptions and aspirations relate only to the best way of robbing the natives and plundering the people, would hold him forth as a rebel against the Crown before a people who, despite it all, reverence and love his name. Sir George Grey is a rebel against Dr. Pollen and Sir Julius Vo^el and the corrupt administration which has robbed our people and brought this fine country to the verge of ruin ; and if necessary to resist further encroachments on the liberties and constitutional rights of the people has declared his intention to " fight them to death." But in such a course he will be defending the constitution received from the hsnd of our beloved Queen, and upholding her Crown and dignity, and in such a course despite the efforts of traitors and hirelings he will have with him the hearts and the hands of the thousands of the people of Auckland. We desire to utter a word of warning, and we solemnly assert that if this course of wilful and malignant misrepresentation is continned, a stop will be promptly put to it, and perhaps with more suddenness and violence than some people expect.