MR SEDDON IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 424, 24 May 1902, Page 3

MR SEDDON IN SOUTH AFRICA.

TG BE AT VEREENIGING TO-DAY. IN TIME FOR PEACE. (By Tolegraph—Pres* Association.) Wellington, laßt night. The acting-Premior has received the following message from Mr Seddon, dated Johannesburg yesterday:—“ Accompanied by Generals lan Hamilton, Wilson, and Baden-Powoll. I inspected the Eighth Contingent at Klerksdorp, who had just returned from a successful drive. Colonel Davis commands the comploto column. Ho and the officers and men are first-rate, and were glad to sec me at tho front. “ I will seo tho Ninth Contingent tomorrow, and will bo at Vereeniging tomorrow. “ The South Island Battalion of tho Tenth had hotter hurry up or they will bo too late. “Tho North Island Battalion of the Tenth aro at Newcastle.”

OUR PREMIER AT THE FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Sir Joseph Ward to night received the following cable, dated Pretoria, 12.25, May 22 : “ Havo visited hospitals at Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, and IGorksdorp. Tho New Zealand patients aro all doing well. Went along to the front sixty miles. Visited the Eighth C-'ntingent just in from Hamilton’s drive. Generals Hamilton, Baden-Powell, and Wilson, and Colonel Thorneycroft accompanied me. Colonel Davies, officers and men aro firstrate. Convoy best wishes to New Zealand. General Hamilton addressed tho column. Ho praised highly tho services of tho New Zealandors, and said he did not want better men under him. Ho also praised thoir capacity for digging trenches. By these marks the Now Zealanders would be known. Have visited tho scene of the railway disaster to tho Eighth. It is marvellous that so few were killed. — Skdhon.”