MR SEDDON AT HOME.

Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 20

MR SEDDON AT HOME.

A STRONG MAN WANTED.

LONDON, August 17

Mr Seddou lias promised to submit to hi-> colleagues tho Midland Railway debenture-holder 1 -' application for an increased allowance m consideration of the money paid aft-er the Government undertook the construction of the line.

Mr \V. T. Stead, in the Review of Reviews, .says that it i.s rumoured that Mr Sp-ddon i-> impressed with the need for v strong statesman in South Africa, ami that he intend* becoming the leader of the Labour party in the Rand. 1 he paper adcK that perhaps he aspires to the first Premiership of the South African Federation foreshadow ed in Mr Rhodes's will;

Whatcu*"! may ho tie ca c e m Eng.'and, it would arpear that the- cautious .^ottibh people are not nulinod to take our Premier at his owai \^hidtioii We have be-on fawmred with the following »-\ tract from a letter wntton by a Glasgow merchant to a friend in Otago : — "Tbe groat fieddon has arrived. There s^em-s to he no ond to hi« ' ga^,' and it matter* not what t : ie i-übject may be, he opens his mouth and pours off gas purr and undiluted. In many ca-ses he 6lioh^ off his oh n igainr<inco, and hjis shown himself entirely ignorant at times of the mam point* of political economy. He bai ma'lo .so mm ii of Jiimself tliitt therf has lvv<- n left no oppo'trnitj for anyone to make aiiy:!iin^ o>ir, of him bub pull him to piex-as, and I shall be much surprised if, before lie leav<»3 the Old Country, h« will not he a milder asad quieter Seddon than he was whon he arnved. He will haie a hWlo more education, of nluch he seems badly in ne*>d. I have repeatedly thought of your polls when sending Fo-ne of Ihb

" ga*. " aud what t.h° papeT3 say about lii'ii Si>inp of t!.<^ papers are now qui-stly dif'PiJ : x linn .md |.iyina; very littlo u<^£>d to h;- o'<'t.on=. New Zealand hns done v. ell by tiii\ Empiie oitijune admits, oaid anything in reasonable common wn«» a Premier might gay would got a respectful hearing , but you know, eld man, we cannot stand ' ga=,' and whatever Seddon may Leas a statesaiau m New Zealand, he has a fa.- too ccsitiactecl and puoclual educa turn to da'-iblu nuxcisfiilly nilli liauenal puliUcs."