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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 435, 29 March 1890, Page 2

The “ World's Fair " to be held at Chicago has been postponed until 1893. A foreign paper informs its readers that the British Christmas pudding includes among other ingredients, dough, beer, milk, brandy, whisky, gin, and raisins, and must be stirred by the whole family for at least three days. London journalists will be grateful to the New York Sun for the following concise and pointed estimate of their handiwork: “ There is nothing in the way of an intellectual production that is more stupid than a London newspaper. It is a dull, heavy, platitudinous, gaseous commodity, unsatisfying, unsympathetic, and inadequate.** The N.Z. Times thus criticises Sir Robert Stoat's recent speech:—Sir Robert Stont has been disporting himself oratorically at Oamaru. According to his usual custom, ha treated bis audience as if they were a jury—a particularly unintelligent common jury. Hit whole speech was a tissue of misrepresentation and special pleading in his familiar forentio style. As a matter of course, he indulged in fervent glorification of hie Ministry, and in disparagement of their successors. . ■ . It is easy for Sir Robert Stoat to tell a jury—we mean a meeting—with his professional forensic assurance, that his Government did everything to promote settlement, and that the present Government are doing every • thing to impede it. But he simply makes himself ridiculous by such blatant assertions in face of the undeniable faot that there has been enormously greater there settlement under this Government than was under his. The official land returns grove this conclusively. Sir Robert Stout's carers, who applauded him so “ enthusiast!* oally," carried away by the spall of his platform oratory, moat have Mt ashamed of their enthuiiasm when they oame to refisal atar« ward what they had bwit applauding.