SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 138, 13 June 1893, Page 2

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

HIS SOUTHERN TOUR

(BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORESPONDENT.)

Wellington, this day

Sir Robert Stout, returned to Wellington yesterday, having travelled overland to Kelson. He was much gratified at the reception he met with from the peoplo of Inaneahua, and at the splendid way they rallied round him at all his meetings. Ho went straight for education, fioe, compulsory, secular and undenominational. Single fcaxers aro not very numerous in those parity but some of thorn aro most energetic Ab one meeting Sir Robert was showing the fallacy of the argument for this tax under the presonfi conditions, when iin old lady interrupted him by calling out, " Sure and why shouldn't the bachelors bo mado to pay the tax?" Sir Robert; Stout foundmuch intelligence amongst the peoplo, who, in a surprising and unexpected degree, aro clever and thoughtful, and it was evident also they read a good deal It was eight years proviously that ho was in tho same country, and lie was amazed at tho change that had taken placo. There wns a good deal of prosperous settlement in the valley?', and were it nod for the Midland Railway there would have been stili more sheep farming on a small ncalo carried on. Tho Greymouth district, Sir Robert Scout think?, will retropade if something is not dono for tho coal mining industry in that locality.