OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE SPEECH,
Parliament was opened- yesterday, and the Vice-Begal Speech, with the usual (> padding" and prosy platitudes, has been delivered. The addresses put into the hands of Governors on the opening of each session are not, as a rule, very interesting documents, and they have long been considered by the Press things to toss about with a kind of as scorn on account of their loose grammer, feehle expressions, and general inanity .-Taranaki Herald.
The Chronicle characterises the speech as " vapid, inane, colourless" and adds, we are perfectly serious in saying that on first reading it we thought somebody had been perpetrating a joke upon us, and took the trouble to institute inquiries before we could bring ourselves to believe that a whole column of such twaddle could really be dignified by the title of a genuine vice-regal speech.
The '• speech from the throne," is of a more than ordinarily uninteresting character. The peculiar ambiguity common to everything emanating from the present Government pervades every line of the address, while the total absence of anything approaching a hint of the future policy of the Government is the main characteristic of the speech. — Fatea Mail. '
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1309, 17 May 1886, Page 2
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199OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE SPEECH, Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1309, 17 May 1886, Page 2
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