The Versatility of the Premier.

Hastings Standard, Issue 146, 15 October 1896, Page 4

The Versatility of the Premier.

Touching up m the versatility of the Premier, the Otago Daily Times says: Mr Scddon shines in a good many things. There is 110 subject so recondite, no question . o difficult, that his gigantic int"l!ect cannot extract the kernel out of it with that consummate ease known as ' like winking.' Put if the Premier has a foible. it is dancing. Notwithstanding that it would not he .supposed that nature had endowed lnm with exceptional capacity for Terpsichorean exorcise, saltation is hishohhy, and lie recently declared that when the passion for it left hiui he would have nothing to live for. ll\s fondness for it was exemplified 011 Friday evening, when the Women's Political League gave a dance. He was there, of course. Put before he went lie lightly demolished Sir Robert Stout on the llorowhenua question. Having dispo-ed of this troublesome matter, with characteristic celerity he hurried to the d,oi'--\ mule a short speech, :ind enjoyed him-eli' in the in.sxy waltz. Tlien he posted back to the House, saw a number of Pills through their second readings, and then returned to the< festive scene, where he enjoyed himself with great spirit until three o'clock in the morning. At IO.MO he was at the Hanking Committee "as bright as a button." In the afternoon lie was present at the opening of the rowing s> a-on. and in the evening he attended the banquet to the Manchester delegates. It is on record that -Julius Ca-siir. Xapol.-on 1., and otb.er famous characters in hi Uory coiild do several things at one and the same time. Put none of these ever employed the night in h 1 ternntely philandering at a ball and making laws. Perhaps that was why they came to grief."