How Mr Seddon got the Cream.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 35, 10 August 1897, Page 2

How Mr Seddon got the Cream.

o The feature of the Jubilee proceedings so far, from en Australian point of view, bai been the surprising and quite unexpected prominence given to New Zealand and her Prime Minister, This is due to several causes, the first and most 'important being the non of Mr Laurier and Mr G. H. Reid. Bad either of these gentlemen been on the spot it would have been impossible for Mr Seddon to loom as large as he has done. The New South Wales folk are not unnaturally exceedingly sick at the manner in which they have been wiped out of the " boom." The mother colony has indeed sat back in London too long, and on this occasion of all others we should bare had her well cv evidence. Properly, of course, Bir Geo. Turner if not Mr Kingston ought to have taken precedence to Mr Seddon, but Sir George is a quiet, almost shy. little man, end the New Zealander had the enormous advantage of being on the spot flrat. When Mr Cbamberlain'i invitation to the oolonial Premiers wai announced a shrewd New Zealander said to me : "Mark my words, Seddon trill be the last to accept and the first to be on the apol. He is a splendid lodge of effect." And the prediction proved true. Mr Seddon was the first arrival. Public intern* centred in him to begin with. He bad skimmed nearly a week's cream off the colonial Premier novelty junket before his comrades oam£ on the scene, and until the Hon. Wilfred Laurier rolled home (of course I mean by steamer) last Saturday New Zealand s Premier easily held the lead. — A London correspondent.