SIR GEORGE GREY IN SYDNEY

New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 30

SIR GEORGE GREY IN SYDNEY

(per press association.) Stdney, March 7. Sir George Grey was presented with an address from New Zealanders resident in Sydney at the Town Hall to-day. There was a great concourse of people present, including many leading citizens. On rising to express his thanks for the presentation, Sir George received a tremendous ovation. In the course of a most eloquent address he said that wo in this new nation were an example to the Old World how, under a proper system men might live in peace without keeping men under arms for ever, simply to slaughter each other. Everything had been done'in old nations by various devices to divide the people into two classes one of extreme wealth and the other of. extreme poverty —and this state of things could only be ended by calling into existence a new nation with unfettered laws suited to the moment. His heart moved as he looked down the loug vista from Sydney to Melbourne, and from Adelaide to Perth, thence across to Cape Colony and through Africa all founded by the same race of people, which had dono great things in* this Colony. England a success in colonisation was, ho thoughs, due to the freedom which permitted British people to go where they liked, bound only to England by ties of affection. He asked them to conceive what a career Australia would have under a Union Buch as the United States of America, and what an opening it would give the people. In another lifetime such as lii3 it would be a great nation. Regarding the Pacifia Islands, .he thought it would be the duty of Australian statesmen to consider what race would be most suitable to inhabit them. "I here was every reason to fear that Native races were becoming extinct, and with such prospects as tho Australians possessed tne people would have more noble aspirations than other people ever had. Sir John Robertson and Mr G. R. Libbs welcomed Sir George Grey to Australia on behalf of the people.