"SEDDON DAY BY DAY."

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11332, 23 July 1902, Page 9

"SEDDON DAY BY DAY."

MORE PRESS COMMENTS. (rBOH OCR OWN CORR_SFONT>_NT.) LONDON, June 13. (Mr Seddon is due to arrive in England jo-morrow. On Tuesday we received information that he had reached Madeira. He will find waiting for him here a shoal of invitations to visit and speak in all «ut« of Great Britain and Ireland, one of the invitations being a request for him. Io address a Home Rule meeting at Dubon. However, he has made no definite arrangements as yet. Meanwhile the papers all over the country are again full of him. At Madeira, Mr Seddon *was interviewed by the Special Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," who cabled to London the tnatmary of the views he had succeeded fc extracting. Among other things Mr Beddon is reported to have "declined to repress any opinion without fuller knowledge and consideration of the question— (the peace terms). He observed, however, that the great difficulty of the future in South Africa will not be with those who have been fighting against us, but with the others who are and have been behind them. He expressed much gratification at tbe kindness and courtesy with which he was received in South Africa." With regard to his mission to England, Mr Seddon is reported by the same correeS indent to have said that "he is sanguine at great good to the Empire will result from the Conference of Colonial Premiers." Referring to the Morgan shipping deal, the Premier remarked that the whole question of trusts would require the careful <sebberation of the Legislature. Ultimately, it seemed to him, the matter would result in the organisation, on the one hand, of labour, and on the other of the con- ; somen. In New Zealand, he told mc, the millers and bakers lately, formed a trust. When ihe food supply of the people was placed at the mercy of the combine it might be necessary for the State to interfere, as was the case in Germany, even to the fixing of prices." To another interviewer at Funchal (Madeira) Mr Seddon is reported to have said': —"fee Conference of Colonial Premiers would not make conditions or insist on specific terms. They hoped, however, that their views would be met-. "The present system of fiscal policy," he added, "cannot without danger of the Empire lwtog ground, owfng to restrictions on our tBKfo, and the keen competition of foreignws. Other countries (bake care of their trade; we should do the same. Tbe •eheme I submitter! to the New Zealand «_«ment for Imperial Defence I still adhere to as feasible. It would provide for «y oantingency. Now is the time to |w* the matter." Regarding the terms of |JM», Mr Seddon, says the interviewer, <**rred, "Taihoa" ('"We shall see!") Hot only newspaper correepondents, but WWcians, too, are finding Mr Seddon a WMrol topic. Mr John MorEey, speaking or, Saturday, made an unmis*wUe reference Dealing with an ImpejjW Zoflverein, be said "he scented a naW«M danger. "You can repair the havoc ?*£ (he proceeded), make the bloodfWMflelds emile again, but a vast eoono- *» Wander may do again what it has done •gw-jt may ruin the Empire." The _?*.<« admitting all colonial produc W free, and the taxing of all similar «Nfl» produce, Mr MoiCev declared, "WW be to raise the price of raw mate- £•* "On the chances of some increase »JWr-re.atively small colonial trade (conw»W Mr Morley) you are going to de- £**»> <bslodge, and dislocate all your ftf**"]* foreign trade. If we go upon «"w lffiee we shall do no good to the *»»•», and we shall go a little way to__Z[ r"?" 1 ,? ourselves. You will know *amous picture of tbe New Zea- . traveller from New Zealand StJ** in a vast solitude, and from the {?*■*». arches of London bridge sketching «• nuns of St, Paul's. What a pang through the heart of that New T**g*r when the time cornea if he that this mournful and dismal soli- -__* _7* *>f a great city, had 2* *oe to a policy adopted in *conse■2"* ■ °f the masterful blandishments of *w,««w Zealander." fr?foftaiical fold, however, Mr Seddon Sowing less and less a. persona grata. ft__a"S** 00 *. "Truth" save:—"Last week's w?J™ Dai New Zealand brought mc another 3S* °* CoTr «sp<Midence and newspaper ££*_* in reference to the amazing' Mr" There ia evidently great anxiejty be accepted here on ju's.bwn 22™*' The New Zealanders know, their I.* I**1** it is feared that rniscoaeeptions. abroad as to his position and JjV*** I '?'. The audacious way, in which v ertised himself at the expense of <»_;«_ff (which, by the way, bears the - W-^-T-"* 8 hor n* hiß Jx>sabastio orations) general disgust, and there is a I J["?P ire »a impression that he is playing j&Tf "* appointment under the Imperial. One colonial paper hints that ahi__\ o e y R on the High Commissioneroonth Africa. Surely his ambition than that?'* : ' :": . *ya___: }*> "< as we thought," exclaims the *ffi£u - oiu:fttt *-" " Mr S6ddon ' ar " «f * lra ' k as shown the terms WJd could wish they had been "»« situation is one that can only in terms of Alice: — "™* Voice of the Seddon, I hear him < jflottpl a | n> Ma. rfrfr*?* 6 to ° soft ' iVa I * l again.' Pn lifts her eyelids so he with his nose T*! * «p in disgust at this climb-down of i-i*** oo * in New Zealand, alone with jj, '?**«*-■- - platform and Boers are

ster," "that on his way from Madeira Mr tieddon will learn to accept tbe peace terms as inevitable, and agree with Mr See in welcoming *as feHow-citkeens the brave men who were recently in arms against us.'"