THE LYTTELTON TIMES ON SIR GEORGE GREY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6421, 16 June 1882, Page 5

THE LYTTELTON TIMES ON SIR GEORGE GREY.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Christchurch, Thursday. The Times has an article on Sir George Grey's position in Parliament, in which he is complimented on the sensation he has been causing. The journal thinks that he is now in his proper position, and if he would not struggle to become the leader of a party, for which he has shown himself so clearly unfitted, he would be the most powerful man in Parliament. Says the Times :—-" With Sir George Grey, the tribune, advocating a popular canse, no prudent man dare to cross swords. A few lools may rush in, but the angels of the Ministerial paradise are wary of treading on such dangerous ground. But Sir George Grey as Prime Minister or leader of the Opposition may safely be disposed of by any politician of average acuteness and experience. Try Fabian tactics with him, and his own restless impetuosity will be his ruin. Like that English statesman, known as the Rupert of Debate, he is unrivalled at a charge, but cannot carry on a campaign. 'Marat,'at the head of a brigade, won some of Napoleon's greatest victories, but Napoleon gare Murat charge of an army, and had ample eanse to regret it. This comparison exactly meets our case. In conclusion, it is sufficient to say that, in his right place, Sir George Grey is without comparison in New Zealand. Out of it he is a source of danger to all those interests which he has most at heart. He would show the best respect, both for those interests and his own dignity, if, despising the petty struggles and petty horrors of party warfare, he was to hold himself aloof from those little things, and appear in Parliament in his great and proper character of a ' tribune of the people.'"