MR SEDDON.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 510, 5 September 1902, Page 3

MR SEDDON.

TO RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND NEXT MONTH. [BV TELEGRAPH. —PP.EB3 ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, last night. Private advices received here state that Mr Seddon leaves London by a P. and 0. boat in time to roach Wellington in the second week in October.

The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes :—We shall soon get rid of our official visitors from over sea, who truth to tell have become a bit of a nuisance. The great B.P. is heartily tired of being dosed day by day with Seddon’s pompous platitudes and peculiar economies, of trying to find in Barton’s mellifluous utterances something to which they can “ catch on,” and of persuing “reports” of coloniul office conferences which apparently will lead to, at the most, a series of indefinite and non-committal resolutions. How deadly tired of the Coronation and all it has brought in its train we Londoners are you can only imagine. For the past month we have as it wore been forced to sip the champagne we uncorked in anticipation of the to be great days of •June’s end. It has entirely lost its exhilarating properties, and we would fain lie down to rest awhile. But wo can’t do that so long as “ King Hick ” is here to bawl unceasingly “ Wake up.” “ To wander is the miller’s joy," says an old German song. I doubt if it would be if the miller had to work so hard and so continuously in his wanderings as Mr Seddon. A statistical table of the number of miles he has travelled, the number of public dinners and meetings he has attended, and tiie number ot speeches that he has made since he left New Zealand would reveal an activity which can only be described as “ prodigious.” Mr Seddon, however, most certainly works himself too hard, and like the rifle team at Bisley, gets stale. In his speeches tho samo words, the same phrases, the same sentences recur with iteration, so that his utterances gradually attract less and less attention from tho editors of our daily papers, and tho .effort of ‘ Waking up ’ proved such a strain upon him that towards the close of the South African dinner he fell fast asleep—and small wonder when tho soporific nature of some of the speeches, tho extent of his wanderings, and the varied field of his mental concentrations are considered. Mr Seddon is a regular Titan for work, but I would romind him • Non semper Apollo tendit arcum.’ "