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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 201, 27 September 1888, Page 2

The Wellington Post referring to Sir George Grey’s rumored visit to the Old Goqntry says : —“ Sir George Grey, if he speaks publicly in will have to he very careful as to W,hat he says there. We have frequently heard him use language qd the platform and in the House here which if used in Ireland under the present regime would undoubtedly consign the speaker togaql as a criminal. Sir George is too advanced in age, too enfeebled in body, to undergo the hardships of prison discipline, with a plank bed, and bread and water diet, in Tullamore Gaol. He is not a strong man in vigorous health like Mr Mandeville, who was thus done to death, and he would soon succumb if subjected to Mr Balfour’s prescription for preserving law and order in Ireland. Sir George Grey will have to be very cautious if he essays to speak on Home Rule, and he Will have to bear constantly in mind the fact tJiat he is speaking in Ireland, and not 'We should bo sorry to see him fall a martyr even id a • gobd cause, apd he will risk doing so if he takes- a personal part political agitation in Ireland.” A large property-owner at Wirokino not long ago was on terms of friendship with an official to whom he pointed out in detail how he meant to get to windward of the Property Tax Commissioner when the time of valuatioh arrived. So far so well, but judge of the large property owner’s consternation when he learnt that the person to whom he entrusted his confidence has now been appointed assessor, and maypossibly feel disposed to make use of the information communicated as above stated.