SIR GEORGE GREY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 314, 13 November 1879, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY.

Respecting the telegram inviting the Home Government to send out six thou sand of the unemployed, which telegram was suppressed by the late Government' the Timaru Herald saya" Let it be borne in mind that this correspondence with the Secretary of State was never intended to come to light, and that, but for the change of Ministry, no one in New Zealand would ever have known anything about it, Had it been conducted as it ought to have been, through the Governor, His Excellency would probably have expressed his own views very plainly upon it, and it would have been before Parliament in the ordinary tray. But it appear* that the Governor himself knew nothing about it. Sir George Grey sent the telegram privately, and took measures to prevent its ever becoming known. Whilst on the one hand he was publicly avowing the deepest sympathy with tho working men, and professing the strongest disapproval of immigration,as the main cause of industrial distress, on the other hand he was privately urging the Imperial Government to send out swarms of paupers to create that very distress that he affected to sympathise with. As a fact, a very large number of poor people havo come to the Colony in consequence of Sir George Grey's telegram. Their arrival has attracted a good deal of attention, and was supposed to be the result merely of the hard times at home, though it was not easily accounted for on that supposition, Now the truth about it is known."