Sir George Grey.

And, therefore, gentlemen, at the risk of all the unpopularity you can cast upon me, I testify, in the face of the colony, that there is a power in New Zealand incapable of falling in, I believe, with representative institutions, and that power is Sir George Grey. (Tremendous uproar, hooting and groans from the back of the hall gentlemen. I have never said-and anyone to point out that I have [unclear: e] an unkind word of Sir George—(disorder)—and if [unclear: anybody] have, I ask you not to [unclear: blie] (Three cheers for Sir [unclear: George] followed by three groans for Mr [unclear: O] You must know that it is not [unclear: be] that will do it. You must bring [unclear: arg] Now, I say this, gentlemen, that [unclear: if] get into Parliament with a [unclear: following] seven, or eight men after him, he [unclear: wil] neither to the Government [unclear: nor] Opposition, and good and [unclear: effective] ment will become dimply [unclear: impo] (Uproar.) Gentlemen, if the [unclear: colo] New Zealand send Sir George [unclear: Grey] lament with any tail behind him, [unclear: the] the slightest use talking of [unclear: retren] You will have no [unclear: retrenchment.] feeling with regard to Sir [unclear: George] almost one of affection, because [unclear: he] exercise a magnificent influence [unclear: for] our democracy if, instead of sitting [unclear: i] ment, where he has no power (loud [unclear: he] stood outside where he would [unclear: guardian] of the liberties of the [unclear: pec] could make magnificent orations [unclear: is] crises which would compel the [unclear: Gov] to do right, and he might be a [unclear: mag] force in New Zealand of a kind that [unclear: ha] been seen in any country in the [unclear: I] recognise in Sir George Grey great [unclear: of] purpose, and that he has the real [unclear: the] colony lying at heart, and I [unclear: w] say that of any man unless I believed true. But, I say again, in [unclear: make] him an effective representation must have in him sound practical [unclear: character], and the training of Sir [unclear: Grey] has been such as, in ray [unclear: op] render him unfit to work in [unclear: representatives] of the people, [unclear: ing] and hisses, culminating [unclear: i] cheers for Sir George Grey, [unclear: follo] three groans for Mr Connell. The [unclear: paused] to consult his notes, [unclear: whereup] cries of "Go on, Connell," were [unclear: raised]