Grey's Personal Sympathy.

Grey evidently did much for the Maoris; perhaps he did all that it was possible to do. Only one more gift could he bestow on them, and this he did not withhold. He gave them himself. With none of the repugnances which make wholesome contact with lower races impossible to most Englishmen, he moved among them as one of themselves. He learnt their language, studied their traditions, wrote down their legends. The aggrieved told their wrongs into the Governor's own ear and received the promise of redress from the Governor's own lips. There was no condescension, no affectation of dignity or authority, but no one who saw him in the midst of a group of chiefs could doubt where the real ascendancy lay. The Maoris on their side took him to their hearts. With the nobler leaders, like Waka Nene and Rewi, he formed a high, respectful friendship, such as he had with Martin and Selwyn. To the end the great body of them never knew any other Governor than Kawana Kerei, and to the last they spoke of him with an affectionate veneration such as few savage peoples have felt for a civilised ruler. When the good and evil of his life comes to be balanced in the eternal scales, his noble work among the Maoris, and afterwards among the more degraded races of South Africa, will weigh down all else. It will be his passport to Walhalla.