SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 318, 18 February 1910, Page 5

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

HIS IMPRESSION OF THE OLD COUNTRY. By Cable,—Press Association.—Copyright Perth, February P.. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, in the course of an interview, said he considered the British people did not realise the important constitutional question involved in iAe recent elections. There might be grave , trouble ahead of the Liberal Party if j the King did not give Mr. Asquith a pledge as to what he would do; but, no doubt, some way would be found out of the difficulty. Regarding the condition of English workers, Sir Robert paid a tribute to the efforts of Mr. John Burns to improve them. What England most wanted was a crusade against the drink evil, headed* by the national leaders. *l>n (manufactures England still wx-' ( ported twice as much per capita as Germany and four times as much as America, but slackness prevailed among the people, who were given over to amusements. He compared the Australian press favorably with the English press, and declared' that The Times had lost '.is' independent tone and become a party organ.