GOING ON A HOLIDAY.

New Zealand Graphic, 27 June 1906, Page 45

GOING ON A HOLIDAY.

The health cruise to the South Seas in 1900 certainly work'd wond-rs for him, but as soon as lie returned to work, his life became at once more active and exhausting than ever.

No wonder that his medical advisers constantly urg'd him to be cautious aad to husband his strength; and it is a.i acknowledged fact that on the occasion of his previous visit to Melbourne he was told that he ought not even to undergo tha exertion of walking upstairs. But, like most very strong men, he found it hard to realise that even his powers of endurance had their limits. “Mr. Seddan,” saya a Southern journal, “did not care for discussing his health even with bis mosS intimate friends; and he was always anxious to avoid alarming the members of hia family. But on his last visit to Christchurch, a few days before he left for Australia, he confided to a very close friend that he was driven to take the trip by the need for rest. ‘I have had warnings,' he said, ‘serious warnings, and the doctors tell me that 1 must get away or risk my life.’ ‘But are you going to take « rest?’ his friend asked him. ‘Oh yes,’ he laughed back in his old jovial way. ‘Tber< will be tiie trip across; that will I® nearly a week, you know; and then I am nol going to worry myself on the other side. There will be reciprocity and and defence, and, perhaps, one or two other things to talk with the Federal Premier, but this will be nothing compared with what I am doing here, rih ves; I am going to take a rest.’ ‘And I suppose that you will be banqueted and '••’erviewed, and expected to make speeches just as you are here?’ ‘No. I am going on a holiday. It

must be a holiday. I can't give up work altogether while I can be of any use t* the country, but I am not going to throw my life away. The doctors have treated me very frankly. They say that I have gone as far as it is safe to go, and that they wont be responsible if Igo any further. It’s hard, because there is so much left to do, but I suppose I must stop.”