SIR GEORGE GREY AND THE HOKITIKA. TOWN COUNCIL.

West Coast Times, Issue 665, 11 November 1867, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY AND THE HOKITIKA. TOWN COUNCIL.

The following acknowledgment of the address recently forwarded by tho Municipal Council of Hoiitika to His Excellency Sir George Grey, has been received, enclosed in a lottcr from his Honor the Superintendent : — Superintendent's Oflico, Christchurch, Canterbury, N.Z. sth November, 1867. Sir — In accordance with your request, I had tho honor to present to His Excellency the Governor, tho address of the Mayor and Corporation of Hokitika. I have siuce received His Excellency's command to forward to you hi 3 reply, which is enclosed herewith. I have the honor to be, Sir, ifour obedient humble servant, W. S. Moobhousb, Superintendent of Canterbury. The Worshipful The Mayor of Hokitika, &c, &c., &c, Hokitika. To the Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation of Hokitika. Your Woeship and Gentlemen — I thank you most sincerely for your address, expressive of your sense of the services I havo rendered the Queen and the colony of New Zealand. I beg to explain that I received this address some short time since through the hands of his Honor Mj.- Moorhouse ; but that I thought it right to delay replying to it until I wa* certain that I waa to be removed from this Government. All doubt on that subject being now at an end, I may assure you that I shall ever cherish a most grateful remembrance of the splendid reception afforded to me by the Mayor and Corporation, and inhabitants of Hokittkn, and of your address, to which I am now readying. Parting from you, and from a country, in which I have so long served, I do not like to trust myself to say much ; but if ever I can, iv any way, do you service, you will find in me one who is not unmindful of the kindnosseg he has received. G." Gbet. Government House, Wellington, Oct. 30th, 1867.