SIR GEO. GREY'S ADDRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 149, 27 June 1887, Page 5

SIR GEO. GREY'S ADDRESS.

Opinions of the Wellington '. Press.-

(by telegraph—own correspondent.)

Wellington, this day.

""The three Wellington papers agree that \ the speech delivered in Auckland on Friday 'night by. Sir George Grey was one which l did him credit. The "New Zealand Times" says.:. " The address was an excel- : lent one." The " Post : ' refers to it in the following terms: —"Sir George Grey 'seems to have made a very excellent Kspeech at . Auckland. B « , full f °* worldly- wisdom, and apparently tree I from most of the theoretical extravagances in-which Sir George is so wont to nI dulge. Taking the great Pro-Consuls speech altogether, it appears to have> been MSEuBSedy one of the best and most prac•Vtical he has delivered for years past. me § 'Press' says : -"Sir George Grey.for all that I Stout is SO fond of sneering at him, has je tamed a Singular degree oi ascenda ncyovKL , the popular mind, and it IS JUI. WW I esting study to see with effect . he still employs his rare tatont..»d lm , tige. Only-a flatterer could say that bU : has any £^*'f^s£ ~,practical politician, but as _a, p"i ;: .: Lderhe towers above al his rivals, p P^ '.; and imitators, and if he does no other goofl S ;W keeps alive the ■;«thusiasih' among these . wuo " lfc i -ptofessing Liberal principles ha-Ae alto ,: nether: Lied to. at a£ .« ;..is a 'pleasure to read the_ jp^d, -Sir-George Grey's meeting at Aucuouu ~ --ancl: to r£d with them .. spired his audience, by P lacin f\' J ninc ti C al, , ..- objects which, if alfcO f fc fc fiaSfSg I .arc at least not lowering. / fcl f f 2 s a g 1 -too, to see that in a centre .of popuUtaon \:\: where the. P M % l0 ?J ; ■ with a disastrously- favourable times past, Sir «.lp ha J a ™ ,u J ; te , U anybody"SnenS truth, namely, that it ai y y tho • by protection it . » not tney, ■ _ in> • nionied monopolists, "® * df r -beyond i fluence of his eneech will extend iw »«v