The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

James Milne

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THE ROMANCE OF A PRO-CONSUL BEINGTHEPERSONAL LIFEAND MEMOIRS OFTHERIGHT HON. SIR GEORGEGREY, K.C.B.

Produced by James Tenison

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROMANCE OF A PRO-CONSUL ***

Title: The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Author: James Milne Release Date: October 23, 2005 [EBook #16928] Language: English

THOMAS NELSON & SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN AND NEW YORK

AUTHOR OF"THEEPISTLES OFATKINS" "MYSUMMER IN LONDON," ETC.

BY JAMES MILNE

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A guide to Sir George Grey's career as soldier, explorer, administrator, statesman, thinker, and dreamer. 1812 Born at Lisbon April 14, during the Peninsular War. 1829 Gazetted from Sandhurst to the 83rd Regiment Foot, and served to a captaincy. 1837 Sailed from Plymouth June 20, on the ship 'Beagle,' as leader of a  Government expedition to explore North-West Australia. Engaged in  this work, and as Resident at King George's Sound, until 1840. 1841 Named to the Governorship of South Australia, aged 29; held it  until 1845, and during that period rescued the Colony from a state  of chaos, getting it on the high road to prosperity. 1845 Appointed Governor of New Zealand, when the first Maori War was raging. Established peace and authority, and continued in office until 1854. Refused to proclaim the constitution first designed by the British Government and Parliament for New Zealand, and was given power to draw up another. 1854 First Governorship of Cape Colony, to 1859. Two dramatic events of  it were the rising of the Kaffirs, at the call of a girl regarded  as a Messiah; and the deflection to India, where the Mutiny had  broken out, of the troops on their way to Lord Elgin in China. 1859 Re-called from the Cape, because the Government at home  disapproved of his action in endeavouring to federate South  Africa. Reinstated, but with orders to drop his federation  plans; and remained at Cape Town until 1861. 1861 Second Governorship of New Zealand, to 1867. Second Maori War. 1868 Active in English public life to 1890; and in Australasian affairs from 1870 to 1894. 1877 Was Premier of New Zealand to 1879 so achieving the unique distinction of ruling, in that capacity, a country of which he had twice been Governor. 1898 Died London, September 19. Buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, September 26.

Froude; a memory daJem snAhtno yseRof  oan, rybe ,neeuQ lraE ehtdentinci thes of1 98na,dti h,4w  ot lgnEer enrut RIAR Th OR TIS WHE.IH MO E ITUCAL I R AND PARPERSONAL ,I STNETNOC

Lord Robert Cecil, and some notes on London. III. YOUTH THE BIOGRAPHER Or how the child was father to the man. Olive Schreiner's greeting; an orangestall eloquent; a flight from school; a surpassing encounter at South Kensington; and a glimpse of Archbishop Whately. IV. SAXON AND CELT A young soldier in the Old Ireland of the Thirties; varying scenes of Irish life and character; and stories of Dean Swift, Daniel O'Connell, and Sir Hussey Vivian. V. SOUTHWARD HO! The call to the New World; musings of the voyage and the sea; and, by contrast, the London perils of Thomas Carlyle and Babbage, Sir Charles Lyell's spear-head being also mentioned. VI. MAN AND NATUREABORIGINAL A battle with the blacks, wherein, unhappily, their leader fell, the white chief being seriously wounded; and later, a valiant march across the blistered Australian country. VII. PLANTINGTHEBRITON First principles of nation making; a harvest in South Australia; the witchcraft of Turner's wig; the vanity of riches; keeping the Anglo-Saxon ring; strange human documents; and a reference to Sir John Franklin. VIII. PICTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE Food, as man's leading motive; curing a witch doctor; a problem of Kaffir women's ornaments; elevating the native; a Tasmanian study; a new Sabine story; the Aborigine and his surroundings; lastly, McFarland's elopement. IX. OVER-LORD OFOVER-SEAS Lamech's slogan and the task of stilling it in New Zealand; with, arising therefrom, martial chronicles of Hongi, Heke, and Kawiti, Maori chiefs, and of the taking of the 'Bat's Nest' stronghold. X. 'TWIXT NIGHT AND MORN An Easter scene and earlier; on tramp with Selwyn; the kidnapping of Rauparaha; Rangihaeta cajoled into road making; how the Maoris rubbed noses; and the boycott as peace-maker. XI. THETHRILL OFGOVERNING Knight and esquires; a secret of empire; the tragedy of the naval lieutenant; Patoune's fallen-out tooth; to the hills for New Zealand's constitution; playing 'cock-fight'; and repulsing the Ngatipoa. XII. IN THEQUEEN'S NAME Showing the management of another danger spot of the realm, to which picture there come in, details of the winning of the African natives to the Queen, a comedy of witchcraft and widows, and a German Legion difficulty. XIII. OCEANA AND A PROPHETESS From the plight of Sir John Herschel in London, to the stir made in South Africa by Nongkause, a Kaffir girl turned Messiah; and between pages Sandilli, Moselekatsi, Bishop Colenso, and Bishop Wilberforce. XIV. A SAVIOUR OFINDIA The activities of a hunter, prelude to a narrative of how a British military force, under orders for one theatre of war, was boldly diverted to another; incidentally the bearding of Moshesh; and a queer Pax Britannica. XV. AYEDREAMINGAND DOING The effort to federate South Africa; the gathering in of the Pacific, involving visits to New Caledonia and Norfolk Island; the Irish girl as empire builder; a meeting with Macaulay; and Prince Alfred at the Cape. XVI THEFAR-FLUNGBATTLE-LINE Two Kings of Maoriland, Te-Whero-Whero and Tawhiao; Sir John Gorst and the newspaper battle, 'Lonely Sparrow on the House-Top' v. 'Giant Eagle Flying Aloft'; the storming of Wereroa Pa; and an escape from an ambush.

XVII. FOR ENGLAND'S SAKE

Keeping the painter from being cut; an election contest at Newark; a visit from Mr. Mundella; the pacifying of the tribes; and finally the golden legend of Hine-Moa the Maori maiden.

XVIII. A FATHER OF FEDERATION

A word on Mr. Gladstone, and many words on Anglo-Saxon federation, the ideas underlying it, elements making for it, and the benefits which would follow in its train.

XIX. WAITINGTO GO

Backward and forward, being farther memories, one telling of a tryst with Dean Stanley; then, an exposition of simple faith and the romance of death, as leading to the Hereafter.

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HE ROMANCE OF A PRO-CONSUL

I PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR

'Perhaps there is something in old age that likes to have a young mind clinging to it.' Sir George Grey was speaking of the famous people he had known in his youth long, long before. He struck an inner note of nature which is surely equally valid the other way? Whenever I think of the remark, I am inclined to discover one reason why I came to know Sir George so well. I met him, as I have met other characters of English story in our own day. You go into these great waters, seeking that all who care may know. You cry across them, answer comes back or it does not, and there endeth the lesson, until the next time. It was different with Sir George Grey. He hauled me straight in-board, saying, 'Now, call upon me often, and we'll talk mankind over. Going by myself, no two people can meet without being a means of instruction to each other, to say nothing else. You are where the swing of events must be felt, and I am in the back-water of retirement. It may entertain us both, to study new subjects under old lights.' Thus flew many an hour, and many an evening, and the memory of them is green and grateful to me. Here was an incident, there a reflection, and always it was Sir George Grey intimate, whether in a frame large or small. It is the rivulets, babbling to the big stream, that really tell its tale, for without them it would not be; and so with the river of life. Beside me, a scarred veteran looked back upon himself, hailing some venture from the mist of years. Again, it might be an event on the wing; or the future, and him bending eagerly forward into its sunshine. We wrote things, he inspiring, I setting down, and by and by I exclaimed: 'Why, I am getting, to be quite a depository of your memories and ideas.' At that he smiled, 'And who, do you fancy, would thank you for them?' Thus a portrait of Sir George grew with me, and I was for stroking it down somehow. 'Oh well,' quoth he, 'let's try and gather together what may be fresh, or suggestive, in my experiences, and yours be the blame. Whatever you do must have a certain spirit of action —you know what I mean!—or nobody will look at it. You'll need to whisk along.' In Froude's phrase, the life of Sir George Grey had been a romance, and that was the road which caught me. No wonder, for it was a broad road, in the sense that his whole being was a romance. He saw things beneath a radiant light, and he saw many which to others would have been invisible. Nor, was his grasp of them less accurate, because he strained his eye most earnestly for what was most beautiful. The romantic element in his outlook gave colour, vividness, meaning to the unconsidered trifles—in fine, you had a chronicle and a seer. On the one hand, then, I sought for the texts with a likely stir in them; on the other for those of personality, streaked by affairs. The references were consulted, or Sir George's own words of old delved among; and from his discourse there sprang a regular series of notes. 'It's a kind of task,' he remarked once, 'that might easily enough lend itself to vain-glory. We must avoid that.' If there is anything that could so be read, I alone am the sinner; for with his memories there go my interpretation and appreciation of him. What should I do but write of Sir George Grey as I beheld him, of his career as one captured by it? His nature, like every rich nature, had folds, but I only knew their warmth. With that, I step round the mountain side.

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II HOME IS THE WARRIOR

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