SIR GEORGE GREY'S CANDIDATURE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2156, 1 December 1875, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY'S CANDIDATURE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —I see by the report in this: day's Advertiser; that Sir George SGrey is made to say, when addressing the Electors of City West, Auckland—" Then for the future. At present it woull be impolitic to attempt to sketch out any policy. The day after the next Session of Parliament closes, the Provinces will be abolished. Before then, a great many contingencies are likely to come into force. We don't know.how the next Parlument may bo constituted, or who the Ministers may be. We don't feel certau at all that Abolition will take place * * * * * But, can the Government, if they-remain in office, tell you what your future is to be? Strictly speaking, it is the Government who should tell you what kind of Government they would sei up, Ac, &c." Now the Government have set up a policy, and that, one of Abolition. There can be no mistake about that—:on that i great question they.were prepared to stand or fall last session. But if I remember rightly the community of the Tkames was the first to come to the point with a powerful manifesto of its approval of the scheme, and with a .petition to the. Government to spare, no constitutional measures whereby to secure the accomplishment of their object. Then, if I also remember rightly, Sir George Grey " SBthim down in ire, and telegraphed like a demon," craving of the people of the Thames to suspend their judgment, and, lo! he, another Deus ex Machina, would solve the riddle and propound a new scheme of goverhntent suitable to the exigencies of the colony and its inhabitants. Jtfow, what does this mean ? "At present it would be impolitic' to attempt to sketch out any policy, i&cs." Somebody has somewhere said,'" I vftld thou wer't hot or cold;" so say many with reference to this glaring inconsistency. : Two negatives can never make a positive, and therefore do not let the. Thames people stultify themselves by supporting Sir George Grey's provincial proclivities now that he is amongst them, and by abandoning their'first generous and spontaneous impulse which led them to try, as much as in them lay, to strengthen the arm which was and is prepared to bare itself to the shoulder in their behoof. Let us all recollect that this is no personal matter. JSTo one, I will venture to psay, has a more profound respect for Sir George Grey, as Sir George Grey, than I have. But the question, divested of all feelin^of a personal nature.simplyresolves itself into this—Are we, or are we not to have reali substantial and permanent selfgoverment, with the spending of our own money, or are we still, under some pseudonym, to perpetuate that system which has compelled the best 1 amongst us to lie at the feet of Gamaliel- craving for those things that as from a cornucopia ought to have been poured into our laps. TEAVELtBB.