Sir Robert Stout at Wanganui.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 31, 6 August 1894, Page 2

Sir Robert Stout at Wanganui.

Sir R, Stout addressed a crowded meeting at Wangacui last Saturday evening, held under the auspicsf of the Women's Political League. Sir Robert, on rising, was greeted with applause. He said he must first compliment the members of the Wanganui Women's Political League on the Vary farourable report just read. He then dwelt on his long intimacy with tlw late Mr Ba I lance. It was in W^ainganui that he was first strongly urged* to re enter political life. Mr J^fcocci had asked him to do so as h* felt bie health failing, and he (Sir Bobtrt Stout) had promised that if the n«>3 arose he would again becpm.e;^ candidate for a seat in the House. Indeed, but for the promise he had given Mr Ballance he did notlraoW that he would now have been 'm Parliament. Indeed he would go further and state what previously he had not spoken from any platform or written in any paper, and that was that it was the late Mr BallanceVro. quest and dying wish that he (?ir R. Stout) should come in and lead the party he (Mr Ballance) had led, as he dreaded oome leadiog it who aspired to do so. He thought it due to Mr Ballance's memory to state this now, as no one could say that his making the statement at this .juncture was due to a desire for personal aggrandisement. Bir Robert wa* accord*! a hearty vote of thanks.— Chronicle.