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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Rare Volume

Note III. p. 12

Note III. p. 12.

See his despatch to Lord Grey (Perl. Papers. 1850, p. 59), in

III. lnconsistent statements of Governor Gray as to fitness or colonists for self-government.

which he describes the colony as teeming with "numerous disappointed applicants for employment, disappointed land claimants, aliens, various persons arriving from the Pacific and other places, who, being frequently Americans, bear no attachment to the British Government, or probably to any government whatsoever." This is stated of the colony generally, but in reply to a petition from the southern province. Compare it with his despatch to Mr. Gladstone (Parl. Papers, December, 1847, p. 1), where, speaking of the southern colonists, i. e., three-fourths of the inhabitants of the colony, he says, "I can have no hesitation in recording my opinion, that there never was a body of settlers to whom the power of local self-government could be more wisely and judiciously entrusted than the inhabitants of the settlements to which I am alluding." No attempt to reconcile these conflicting opinions has been made by Governor Grey.