That Opening Speech.
With but few exceptions the newspapers of the colony have condemned the extraordinary length of the Governor’s Speech put into the mouth of Lord Eaafurly last Tuesday, and the verbosity with which the facts with which it dealt with were related. One of the most cutting criticisms is that of the Timaru Herald, which says :—“Of course the Governor was not responsible for the Speech. It was the production of the Ministry, and they have good reason to be ashamed of it. It was grossly unfair to the Governor to ask him to read such unmitigated balderdash, and we believe that more than one of his predecessors would have declined to accept it until some of its more glaring defects had been remedied. It is full of English, and where it is not open to that censure it is bombastic and altogether in wretchedly bad taste. Our first idea is to criticise it to some length, but it really is not worth the trouble.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 4
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167That Opening Speech. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 4
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