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Evening Star, Issue 12874, 25 July 1906, Page 4

The London ‘ Daily News,’ both in its editorial and news columns, was somewhat vague in its references to Mr Seddbn’s career. In the former it said a long period of Toryism under the “Forrest” Ministry had produced a condition of stagnation. Then came the Progressive triumph, the brief period of the Rallano© Premiership, and finally the Seddon rule. It is fourteen years since Mr Seddon succeeded big dead colleague as Prime Minister, and in the interval he has accomplished an astonishing programme of Radical reforms, including universal suffrage, a graduated Land Tax, old age pensions, drastic temperance legist lation, wages boards, etc. And in a special article it said:—“Mr .Seddon lived in a pleasant, two-storey wooden house near the Houses of Parliament. The walls of his hall and rooms were hung with mementoes end addresses. Weapons from the Maori War, in which he played a distinguished part, figured largely. A splendid greenstone mere seemed to be a special favorite of hie.” As the writer of the article mei Mr Seddon in Wellington, our late Pmnki must have been giving him soma Me* copy War