AN APPRECIATION.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11668, 2 July 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)

AN APPRECIATION.

Rer. P. W. Fairclough, in "The Uutlook." writes:— "Has any Englishman, living or dead, by the free and oft- repeated vote of his fellowcitizens, continued in supreme authority and in growing popularity and power for 15 years? Search the records, 'there is only one— Richard John Seddon. Has any insular community of less than a millions dropped in the wasted of the uttermost sea, ever had a citizen whose opinion counted in the counsels pi four hundred millions, whose fingers touched the history of remote regions, and whoso example thriller and stirred to emulation communities much greater than his own a1 the ends of the earth? Search th( records again. There is only oneRicbard John Seddon. Has anj working man, starting from sweal and grime and limited knowledge, risen, by sheer force of character and splendor of achievement, tc such notß and fame that his visit t( a distant country moved its ruler: and stirred great cities as thougfc one with the traditions of a thous and years of royal sway behind hin wero making a progress? Searct the records of time.- There is bu qnß— Richard John Seddon. Swif and crushing indeed was the blov that fell upon his family. In the pie nitude of his. power, in the height o his fame, after his greatest harves of popularity and honor, with hii heart full of hopes of service to hi! country; the shaft of death reachec him and he was gone. His grea place was empty, his sceprre fallen and his hopes left to others. Liki Nelson, 'he fell into the arms o Victory.' He ran his career, uniqu in this as in the rest, without th' set back or humiliation of a sing! defeat. Zealandia mourns he statesman now at rest, and no tri huteof words could equal. the tribut of that stunned silence which fe] upon a million hearts when it wa Snid f S«a«Jnp Is. **«!•?.' "