DOCTOR SEDDON.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 5 June 1897, Page 2

DOCTOR SEDDON.

A CABLE message received last night announces that the Oxford University, following the example of Cambridge, is nbouS to confer the honorary degree of Dootor of Lawa upon— among others— Mr Seddon— our own Bpeoial Envoy to the record reign celebrations. Fats has evidently marked the burly Richard oat for great things, and Forttme is now imiliog ou him with a vast grin of benevolenoe whlob bodes ill for the fatnre. When the day of political reckoning arrives la this colony— when the giant of to-day reels beneath the blows which an inexorable Fate seems to deal ont with unbiassed fervor to men bath greab and email— when Eamara'i onosen no longer drives the ooaoh of State with headlong speed over the quagmires whioh beset) its path— the "honorary honors" now being heaped npon him will hardly sustain him. Bat' the lasb is nob yet. Ere the wanderer returns to ns we may expect him to have beeu the reolplent of even greater favors. Be* tween now and the time when— girt in all the panoply of a 'Windsor uniform and oooked hat-rbq anjf the martial Maori* landem take part in the historic procession to Sb, Paul's, the possibilities are limitless. Capering through the antique halls of Albion, basking in the smiles of doohesses and countesses, hob • nobbing with potentatea from all quarters of tho globs, the onoe obscure digger may attain a greatneao— ld the way of lltleß— hitherto undreamt oi. A K.C.M.G.-Bhlp is a matter of certainty, while a bsronetoy, or even a peerage, are not impossible. Heaven only knows what the colony may be involved in over all this, but what cures the youDg Demooraoy of this great oonntry I However, when our windy Colonial Treasurer returns we may expect to receive some inkllDg of the truth— bat it will no doabt only be arrived at after toilsome labor on the part of b Royal Commission or something of the sore. One thing, however, is very certain ; Parliament will have to pass an extra vote for stationery, as when our King appends his pßndiculated ilgna> ture to anything requiring it ill will necessitate about three yards of paper, for ho is nob likely to conceal his connection with the halls of learning and the peerage under plain " R, Seddon."