Mr Seddon's Pard.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6667, 8 September 1905, Page 4

Mr Seddon's Pard.

—.—«. A remnikable story is told of a former partner of Dick Secldon, tbe present Pr+mier of New Zealand. Tbe two worked ' in tho goldfield« .tegothar and prospered. The man'*nama is Thomas Ititrt, and ha lost his wealth fliroiis-h rewfintwi appttrus against an unjust verdiob tin-*; was }<ivom fij-amsfc him at. Tasam-.i.-i. Ono result of the old mnu'fi agitation is that he ha,; e«o----redded in getting tha law nliered. Ho c»ma to England to piosucut.o his re»t before tho Privy Council, and bo does not intend to return until a decision has boon givPH ono way or the other. Up tci the present he baa spent over .£20,000. A roiravkahlo feature is that Mr Saddon (although Burti ia reduced to soiling matches ia the Strand gutter) recognised his old partner when he was visiting this country and took him to tho Hotel Cejil as his gneat. On Mr Seddon's departure, Burt found it impossible to remain at the Cecil owing to hia str iitoutxi circumstances, but ho was RERtned that so long as ho < cared to come he coutd obtain his: three raoala there every <3«y. Since then tho old man has duly found his way to tbe hotel, and at night sleeps at a common lodging house in tha East End.—" Dundee People's Journal."