SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

. The Tablet writes of Mr StoutHe understands, >'in short, the opportunity that lies open. tp_ him, and if he is prepared to take advantage of it, he is hardly ' very much to blame for rinit]fe>/ generally .believed-that the hUT Robert Stout does hot ptopose to himself states, njanship as a.final career, Perhaps j( there were .mpfflhabjliti of the elefctiw qr, 'still better, 1 ' M presidoticyofa'Repbllo presontod'ltsM in even the. distant; future, the oareer in question might seetfi worthy of tho devotion'of all the honorable gentleman's life -but of neitfter s%e does there app.ear much prospect', So long as the colony coniiauos to be a depenaenoy of the British Empire, so long it'iß almost certain that our Governor-will be appointed by the Imperial Government. And as to the idea of a Republicj'thore is danger in the very thought with, the pyes of Gofman dbßpots upol} ou| 'neighborhood. Th| summit.of ambitipfi is, therefore.' beljeved tp tie tjie attain': ment of the ermin6,lind the 'ig supposed ; .tp ,prepoii| jtseu to him in hig most fianpjne dreams ip t]lat ftt whipli l?fl wiUbeßtyMSirßJpft : pyt, rank w Ohif Jyatiqe of New Zealand,