IN MEMORIAM. SIR GEORGE GREY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 22, 6 October 1898, Page 6

IN MEMORIAM. SIR GEORGE GREY.

A GRAND old sage has passed awjy, A noble soul ha& fled for aye, Great Britain's heart is bad to-day, But sadder still New Zealand's. Before the world his greatness grew A noonday glory lo ilie view. And round thy shores a hulo threw, Enshrining thee. .New Zealand. He loved thee well, he spoke thee fair, He watched thee with a father's care. He gave to thee the largest share Of his big heart, New Zealand. A scholar and a statesman he, A prophet ot the time to be When fame shall come to bide with thee And crown thee queen. New Zeaiand. But not for this alone we raise To-day the anthem of his praise, And speak his woith in divers ways. No, not for this, New Zealand ! We mourn for him, the chief who led The people to the goal ahead Where purer laws their radiance shed For thee and thine, New Zealand. For I his his mem'ry shall be blest, For this his name shall ever rest Green in the love of every breast That throbs for thee, New Zealand. No need for him — no need at all The sculptur'd pile we honour call ; Thy spacious breast a shrine too small Would be for him, New Zealand. The people whom he loved and well Within their hearts there let him dwell ; And be it thine his fame to tell To other days, New Zealand. c „tx ,- P.E.Nolan. South Dunedin.

M. Marinoni, the principal proprietor of the famous Parisian newspaper, Le Petit Journal, which has a circulation of nearly 1.250,000 copies a day, commenced life as a factory lad.