Melbourne Paper on Stout.
The defeat of the Stout-Vogel Government has not caused much surprise in Melbourne, and Sir Robert Stout does not get the sympathy which he evidently expects Concerning him, the Daily Telegraph says:—“Sir Robert Stout emerges from a conflict in a «ingul»rly damaged and dishev. lied condition. He is at this moment the most unfortunate politician on this side of the Equator. Seldom has the head of a Ministry been brought into such a condition of ignoble wreck. The New Zealand Premier has lost his portfolio, his seat his reputation, and his temper, and to the production of these disasters probably none has contributed so much as Sir Robert Stout himself. He has so completely lost prestige that he has been beaten by his own constituency by a young gentleman of aimable character, but utter unacquaintance with politics. So Sir Robert Stout marches off the political stage in a huff. Like another Coriolanus, be ‘banishes’ the ungrateful New Zealand from his care. He renounces politics, but only does this when politics have left him very little to renounce.”
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 60, 29 October 1887, Page 4
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181Melbourne Paper on Stout. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 60, 29 October 1887, Page 4
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