Take, as an example of our mean ing, the reception accorded to Sir George Grey on his recent visit to Australia. As the apostle of the one inan-one-vote, he was belauded and almost idolised by the masses of the people and his utterances on that and kindred topics exercised a great in fluence on contemporary politics in all the Australian colonies. And yet, in the future years, we predict that his wise and far-seeing deliverences on the subject of Australasian Federation will be more highly esteemed and will be looked to for their guiding and warn ing lessons, when the memory of pre sent political struggles shall have become dim or shall have altogether died.
In like manner, in the reference to the long and varied labours of Sir Geo. Grey in New Zealand, when Time shall have enabled us to separate what is ephemeral and controversial from what is universal and enduring, we shall find that the Statesman will assume grander proportions, while the Politician will sink into comparative insignificance.
We shall then appreciate more fully the important part played by Sir George Grey in the pacification of the Maoris by virtue of that mag netic affinity which existed between

those noble aborigines and himself, and which has made him the friend and " father " of all the Polynesian race*. Then, too, we shall see more cleariy the value of Sir George Grey's services in securing for New Zealand a Constitution more liberal than is enjoyed by any other colony. And when the smoke of party strife shall have rolled away we shall all discern more correctly the underlying principles that animated the veteran statesman whose eightieth year we are now about to celebrate.
