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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 76, 31 March 1868, Page 2

Mr Charles Flinders Hursthouse, the author of a pamphlet on New Zealand, has published an addendum relative to the recall of Sir George Grey, in which, after commenting on his Grace of Buckingham's curt despatch, he says : — ' Now this mode of bowling over by a pert paragraph a distinguished public officer, who after five-and-twenty years of faithful service ofthe Crown, had made himself obnoxious to the Colonial Office by telling it some most wholesome truths about itself, may have seemed rather good fun to his Grace and his chuckling subordinates, rather a smart thing for their office to do ; bufc assuredly, those who think that a department of State charged with the interests of Britain's colonies, should at least conduct itself with official decency towards them and theirs, will form a very different estimate of the thing, and may venture to think that his Grace of Buckingham's "descent" from office should at once follow Sir George Grey's. Indeed, though the official mind of Whitehall and the 'treasury, though Tadpoles and Tapists, and men of the like calibre and kidney, may deem Sir George " disgraced" by his recall, 2,000,000 of Australasian colonists will regard the cause of it as one of his best titles to honor and renown.*