THE NEW ZEALANDER AND MR SEYMOUR GEORGE.

Kumara Times, Issue 688, 11 December 1878, Page 2

THE NEW ZEALANDER AND MR SEYMOUR GEORGE.

The Wellington correspondent of the New, Zealand Sun is .hard on our member, as ,he writes “It is said that the New Zealander is in some* thing like a state of oellapse, and not likely to recover, lit has been fearfully mismanaged since a short time after its establishment, and now that it is in difficulties, its managing director, Mr Seymour George, who has * managed 1 to bring it to its present position, has coolly washed bin hands! of all further responsibility, resigned his seat on the hoard, and departed for Kawau, leaving his co-directors to get out of the these as well as they can, and to soothe the feelings of their irate banker. The Wairarapa Standard recently attributed rnuch of the ill-success of'.the Ministry in the recent, session to the species of support received fn>m its organ. There was a modicum of truth in this, hub the Standard should have gone a little further and traced the, faults of the paper as well as the failure of the party to Mr Seymour George, who was responsible for both. His success as a Government whip was on a par with that achieved as a newspaper manager. He injured his party greatly, and seriously disgusted and offended a large section of the best members of that party. In fact he is a perfect specimen of that branch of the human, family whose history has been written by Thackeray. Nothing shbrt of ! a post mortem will ever determine the disputed point whether the member for Hokitika has or has not any brains. The majority of people at present incline to the latter supposition.”