SIB GEORGE GREY.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 3

SIB GEORGE GREY.

a man whom I would like to Bee out of the political burly- burly. He is ' too bright and good for human nature's daily food ;' it is painful to hear and see a man of such exalted character and attainments belittled and befouled by the tribe of electioneering liars and anonymous scribblers. His views are far in advance of the petty pottering and scheming which here as elsewhere constitute 'practical politics ;' his true place is as a leader in the world of thought and in the dignity of literary labour. But he haß a genuine passim tr> iehi°ve practical good for the people of this young nation, and so long as he is willing to serve them politically, so loDg should the people send him to Parliament. His name is indelibly associated with the history of this colony; its constitution bears the impress of his broad, liberal mind ; and its statute-book records many of his triumphs in the popular cause. To send him into forced retirement would be an outrage. There is still much for him to do, and if he is willing to spend and to be spent, men would be fools to reject him. [Since the above was in type, Sir Geo. Grey has retired from political life, and has relinquished the conteat for Auckland seat. lam glad of this, while deeply deploring that ill-health should be the compelling cause.]