SIR GEORGE GREY.
From Oar Special Corresr 6^3nfi Siv Georgeft, advanced another Htilgo. On Tuesday Cozens, tho -genwraj secretary of jl A ss League, wait*,* on. tho veteran and : •* h ® lum to stand as- the political e> * in . vd:ed the caim. She informed W ‘W 1 ? 11 ° f Women’s Liberal; ■/: : ’Fedor' that the lumbers 80,000 ©breaks whieh support his candidiYfcM-a Members, would the numerous tawSb'' - t © ,sa y nothing of League, Siif J 3 of th e Suffrage satisfied o° seemed perfectly hut as, °y support promised, in l s ad6 P^ ed fey the ladies fraaa clear, y. their views he was far founded ‘ " ,ss ,^ b2ens was almost dumb- ’ tablea on , iion ? ie sudd cnly turned the f'SVViewe her a » d assumed,the role of ina ieaao* >' and then proceeded to give her of tl>' r m P l ' ac t l ©al politics, forth© benefit thir 0 League. , In'his opinion the key of whole position js tlie House of Lords, g , no , ni °asure enfranchising women is xilcely to receive;its Assent As the House is at present instituted. The whole question of, the policy to be pursued by the ■■ League will come.’before a conference of shortly membera ' which is to be held . S Y Gre’orge received a long com- ; mumcation frori Mr Baynes, secretary of bmn ’ ib of tlie Imperial Federation League, asking diim to. deliver an adctress at the Annual meeting next March. Mr Baines points out that Lord Playfair is president, naid Lord Salisbury vice-pres:-Le " gui0 ’ and that they have promised to. attends the. annual meeting, as well as Mr Jacksoii, Under-Secretary for Ireland A \ similar} request has been received from, the Liberal Association at Manchester.' If ; Sir George Grey is at all fib ho-wiR accept bcjth invitations. ~ü bjecri to. tho contingency of a dissolution, and his becoming a candidate for tho ilonse. o£ Commons, he talks of returning ® ■ Zealand .about June next, lie m still in fairly good health, though suffering from a slight cough. * Regarding the grbat subject of Imperial I ederation lie is not sanguine that much progress will bo: made by the present methods adopted. ■ So far, he says, it has beon treated too much as a subject for post-prandial sentiment, and no effectual steps have been taken to make it a live question among tho masses, without whose sympathy and support it must continue to Do, as bit* Ilem-y Partes once remarked, in tho air, ’ and too far elevated above the ken of the people. He is more hope- ~. 'Australian.Federation as a foundation ror the larger question.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 15
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426SIR GEORGE GREY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 15
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