HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ZEALAND. 1019 



for himself in Australian history by his services in connection with the work of explora- 

 tion in Western Australia, where he received a spear-wound of which the effects 

 remained. Captain Grey published an account of his travels in the interior which is 

 one of the most remarkable contributions to the literature of the story of that once 

 mysterious waste, rivalling the journals of Sturt for vivid word-painting and realistic 

 descriptive power. He brought to New Zealand the same qualities of energy and zeal 

 that first earned him the notice of the Colonial Office. He established many boarding- 

 schools for the poor and the destitute children of all races in the South Pacific. There 

 were separate establishments for boys and girls under the control of various religious 

 bodies that had Missions in New Zealand, presided over by married persons who 

 resided on the premises with the children. Supported by endowments, the pupils received 

 an industrial training 

 coupled with religious and 

 secular instruction. They 

 were especially taught 

 English, with a view to 

 making it the standard 

 language of the Pacific ; 

 and as this supplemented 

 the efforts of the Mission 

 schools, the result was that 

 in a very few years many 

 of the native population CHRISTCHURCH IN 1852. 



of the younger generation 

 could read and write, and had the advantage of being trained in European habits. 



Endowed hospitals were also established in various parts of the colony, on the same 

 principle of being open to all races in the Pacific Islands. His Excellency also devised 

 a constitution for the Church of New Zealand, which has since been adopted in Canada 

 and Ireland. The fact that he had originated the frame-work of the constitution of the 

 New Zealand Church was made known only by the statement of Bishop Selwyn when 

 he was leaving the colony to return to his diocese of Lichfield, in 1867. Sir George 

 Grey left the colony on the last day of the year 1853. Since the Wanganui trouble 

 in 1842, peace had prevailed all over New Zealand. The European population, which 

 numbered twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy-four in 1845, had increased in 

 1853 to thirty thousand six hundred and seventy-eight souls. The revenue in 1845 was 

 twelve thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine pounds; in 1853 it amounted to one hun- 

 dred and forty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty pounds. His wise and steadfast 

 rule brought prosperity to the country and he left it in peace. On his arrival in 

 England he was made a "D.C.L." of the University of Oxford, and the demonstrative 

 undergraduates, when the title was conferred, gave a round of cheers for the " King -of 

 the Cannibal Islands." 



Upon Colonel Wynyard of the Fifty-eighth Regiment, as senior military officer, 

 devolved the Government of the country on the departure of Sir George Grey. He 

 had lately been elected Superintendent of the province of Auckland, and, according to 



