MR SEIHtoN AB THAT PURSE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11495, 30 January 1903, Page 5

MR SEIHtoN AB THAT PURSE.

LONDON VIEWS OF THE miNSACmON. DERISIVE CXKSIMESnS. (from Otis ow* ooiiHESpoKi>K!rr.) LONDON. Dwcmber 27.

Considerable attention—(sometime defr ; ' cately ironical sometime* yughly earcaetie—is being accorded to that little transaction of tire Seddon National Puree, It bos bewn a«called to London notice by tie : presentation of the Wellington portion of i £820 (or £872, both, figures are given) to the fortunate recipient who assured the ; world tiat at his request the National-Purae-preeeoling mowment had "toot been proceeded with." I grieve to say that tie London view* of the affair are deplorably disrespectful —even openly derisive. It is very sad. Here are a few: — . " The local portion of the national pone, amounting to £850. will be presented to Mr Beddon on Monday. , Such," observe* the London "Daily Chronicle/;' '*» the laconic statement wired from Weiluigton, New Zealand, to 'The Ttoes. , It WJpxito simple, and ehould on the faoe of it, mean no more than that Mr Seddon ii to '■, bo congratulated once more m we warm regard which is clearly Mt tSJIMnMUB* by .■ ''■'.■■ the majority of his fellow>ci*ien*. Bat , there is a little more in torn* hvaUtmlooking eighteen, words thao meets, th* eye. *: Perhaps the mind of any person who ekime the news of t l .ie day ma-y at thie point eugi gsst to him that he hit* seen something ! oVfan , , sonic liiß<* *f.t>t about a present*lion <■>: ;t i ui»e t> Mr Soddon. Hie reeoli kcl : : i -, ay vy.iiii- serve him gs to recall ; in thy f!>d th.< hi-x that six months ago a ~■■ ..-■V- ,,;,-,.'• "vi \v:is Bent round to the Press by -;: K;.i «rV' Vt,-*acr, which had been requested : : in- :,\r Hcddoii to state 'That before h« <.lV:rtute- from New Zealand a report * - v.hkh Mr Seed Jon found had also gamed : -■ currency on this side, was circulated te ■;■ ths effect that .lie had beeu presented with v -;::|; iv sum of money in recognitioa of hii eer« gi vices to iha ijsnpirf ; iAmb thie wjpoit ire( > 3-. iinfoiunded; that isie p«eenit»tka» wWoli V..v- ; -;; actually teok piaoe wae that of an iUn- ; f micated addi-eas sigaed by tfxoi* 2ft,000 New . : :J ZeaJanders ; that, m a awtter of fact, m&n •./''?,:\i had bt«ai a nummeat ia 4ihe .ocJoeqr,_&>".. presenting the Pinmior with ft; cum el ■ -t: money, bub at his reqtiset it had IK* been ■$$!£ proceeded with. , ■ ■ . ■ ' " •. ■■:»-.-:.'--ilfi '•Theie k pathos of a eom«w3)«* no«; usuail kind," coatinwe the "Ohroniok!,", : :>;* "abomt itow littte tragedy ol'Mr:.Seddoa^.;; ; and 'his attempto, now, an we* see, froetiotod -> r ;;fc3s and. brought to nought, to eecaipe froaa of money whkEi lue.-inate«alfy'anl||ieo. ; , -.'i''Kfe adanirere thought, iv their wwldtoue»,t: ? v might be aoceptable. io hka. It ie one that,-after e> 'many yean,, -they^!dSd. : ':V'? : M not know him better. It ie mow ouriboe &M still that, after bje defeate reqae*, M:;;::>g|| recorded in tihe above-mentkioed moot, -they AomW have pendsted in these! , -;?- : Sf$j well-jneaav but obvioaefy uaappreewted, :;m'! intentioM. And tbe most cumou* thing of all Jβ the itlUmate bwakdowa, ol Seddon'e aKkmaotice attitude on the cct. ' T&e sfinain of the reoent general ;|H|i 'election - >hae perhaps affected bw ptwew ; of reeietiuice." • ■■■«« ; . ! 'sSa "When. Mr .Seddto, *J» New Premier, was k» Londcw ia oonoocUoo wiMt J the Colonial Ooofierenoe/ eaye tie "Dajly J« g News," "the rtatesneot was pobliebed tiafc J -0& he had beeo jwesented by toe Syr Zm* land public with a substantial «sm of money. Mr Seddoo tadJffjan% d*«M ti. H i«pw4 and; earned a» expiteatiflp to b» £fo furnished to the Pmw, to tbfl effefit ttai 'he iwd i-eoeived an -addasMe only ' T3**/ T1 .,-| was todinically inie, becaoe* tb* lftoneyt f -tf; had only been ooUected-ae* fWMWrted*- -„ | but ibe impressioii oaweyed by tiw .denial s, "was *n*t Mr Seddon vtt not, «od wonM ';y not be, a party to e> moneterr ttrtittMrfA .J In view of the*e fact* it fc atawiteat -t» r M note a WellingUm teieanuto fuWW»4 ill o f | "The Tunas," etatiag t£at local _~ tion ef the national jpune, amrtjating to s &j £850, will be paweated to Mr S««a> «* ||| 'Tow' Mr SeddwiJ" •eia«n»«e» U» "V® "WertnviwUr "H» J*»«f»* 41 urduous atrugale against Ui* mowp«* »;j|i cmoftg his fefiow-ealoeiets to fa**£&*ss mxrivY teatinioiMal 'has at- last ecded.W i«» 7^ en* tells as that 'tlie local potttoa r atty* national pnrse, ameuatting te^eWt,*^*,} ,6 pw«Bt«d to Mr Seddfln on M«nd»3r. .« To a man of ha* w^^.^^^*^, 4, u««et«nce upon a gift xfinst »JJ**5)SSi unplepeant. We «an only hope tut bwr hwmi I m w«it in *4f««tJ •» a|iM| is ih* " WeirtmJwtor G*«*t*" f>M ( fß any oppontootty of "rulbbMde i»"*«» **S;i^ the preeentatioos CShrietmae Box, and ptttt tfae »BaW «™^s<^^ "A mortioA of tjhe bsfow ta» dopartttw Zoutod for Eagiaod, , ' m w,lP , %^ l "'E37 a* Weilingfcm y«rtenJ»y » B '«*»** erlTer caekcit canfcauoing «*«^lJ*f-«. Simtar pweeateitiblj* W» **FSa!S-?* tomwt. The mxttiev waf owl l *^* l cognitioo of ti»P»«Jf'« iiw aervtcw tolhe 4«rt Bu* tl» climax of all w> faa>*a*-+a*Wß!li||B dtd <»rtw« by Cawo«h«» "Weatmmtiber f, pubtiehe* Ott^Ttteldi^^SS^^j Mr Soddos is tb* obaMMief "£P«2>%?jl|! Gilbert and. Saflaw» , »'Oie*» *T*e Mr Saddon a ebxwn in gor&t** a huia feortJier in SkSs loir, iwUiine <cc haed, bdbind him, into wltwh | ceedmg from «o jwieifole donor bebiad<^ft^l» tiiii, ii 4 W mat*** "*BW,Ti*ll wh£« Poo-bah—Mr Seeflott—l* J«B>WMy]j||||j -~a* did U» original Ptoo*ftk « i gift—"Aootliw lramtt! Andl 1"* a ligM ojk>!" as»i» ii glw* , apologiee to "The *.'. Mr Lobouchere aJ» h*B week's -XrutU" be rcnwka:—"On* flit* prc<««diitgs of Mr &xkku hccouW his 'deer o d bjj|||| i«#t> June, wu« to a nci7£ agtary a coetradtctAtaiof tt»9mi» tlmt a cKiaey t«ttaaoni*i had befUs I lor hun vz h'-v 2Jealw>d> "Sptoe thj ehiiß thftt wieve in cadetßv, frr Uiheiln -ir»lh,' «^tfe^ v 00.1 ice ilr t- .klmi to pn>p:«al to ;>ty hist in b*rd ibuot-vatuf. <! paUricijstlK. tho comtradai-'on apptoro} I Stddoa's ttiit'3«w;, thai 'at bis uesnroovnt '«*« jw* proce«faa gtost pernsistan of the fact* «f tad I ;ulaw.«ueo6!y 01 this dledainur in England, M qtrctiv accept the money tbe colony. The pre<?ictkii w»s letters from -fney,*^, , Sed<lpn, tusd tbs expeckd* htii eoriwpasd«nt of *Tb* Tiintf ■ aC\VW|»eM| wired last woek iSbafc i 0» t>V tietkmal purse wtwujjfcinf to WK% «|||gil to be p*»eXi to Mr «eW"M and ut jcema a p«*ty piain d«e courro we sttttt M«r tts*4ie money, ttltogstiur eoiae £4000 <tt found tte wav to tb* Vmamef* .pocket, ~ Iβ a nice little euro, btft ro vtar of ment last Jon* Mr SeAfco wißtefct Ib eonwwhet serione awf to ins npqty^MMr 1 *