MR SEDDON IN ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 16 June 1902, Page 3

MR SEDDON IN ENGLAND.

RECEIVES A COHDIiL WELCOME. HIS VISWB ON IMPERIAL TRADE RELATIONS. FEB PRESS AI'OOIATION. Received 16, 0.44 a.m. London, June 15. The Caps liner Saxon, with Mr Seddon and party, Captain SeddoD, Colonel Porter, and part of the New Zealand Coronation Contingent, has arriyed at Southampton. Tha Sheriff, the My or of Southampton, Lord Onelow, and the Duke of Onnniught and hia Aide-de-Oamp met the party and gave th'm a cordial welcome. Mr S.ddm in an interview said peace terms would secure tbe great essentials of unconditional recognition of the sovereignty and the abandoi.mri.t of the Bjer independence, He was gratified at his South Africin tour, where' he visi'ed the cam pa of tfcS New Ze .Unders and saw the wcunded in hospital and those in-jur-d in the Mochavie ra'lway a°ci dent. Lo. d Kitchener and M*jorGenTiil lan Hamilton hid warmly eulogised New Zealrr.d, declaiiog that hhe had left hei mirk on S?uth Aftica. Mr Seddon co: s er.d South Afiici was a gri-at country, and had many possibilities if the peace conditions were wisely interpreted.

Mr Seddon siid ho favoured a triennial conference of Imperial statesmen. He was optimistic rtgardiDg the outcome of the trade diftcussiors, and disclaimed any intention of dictating terms as to prefsren ial ti-.;Ja. Whatever ibe result, he would no* damp colonial patriotism, regardless of sentiment, but as a mere matter of safety statesmen ought to make the Emp're relf-su&taining, ty giving contracts wherever possible to the c lonies. The more they strengthened them materially the better able would they be to assist the Motherland. Mr Reeves aud many New Zealanders met Mr Seddou's party at Water'oo station, from which they drove i'i Royal c.iriage- to the Hot-1 Cecil. Large crowds warmly chetrtd hem. Mi- SedJon spends the week-end at L >rd Onslow's c un'i-y se*\