MR. SEDDON FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 16 June 1902, Page 2

MR. SEDDON FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

A London periodical, South Africa, has in a recent; number a leiHing orricle headed " Mr. Seddon foe S .'Uth Africa," in ihe course of which it savs " Me. Stddon is oi his way to the Cape with the Tenth JSew Zealand Contingent, Great will ba his we come, for next to Lird Milner Hud Mr, Oh mibeiia'n, th<> New Zealand Piimt Minister is th-i most popular mm in Sou h Africa. V!r. SjddoQ car y in thn war re-iii-ed the meaning of the struggle. . . . Mr. Seddon is a man who would econ find his way to the h -arts and the confidence of the s'-alwarts of the Boer race. He and Ddlarey would be friends at the first hucd-shake, for the New Zealand Piomier is a man after the burgher's hetrt—s'loug h 'arty, clearfaighti-d and human People are saying in South Africi thatthe field 'for his ene gies li s no 1- , iu New Zealand now, but in Gap > Co'ony. Bsfore chera was any thought tint he was to visit the Gap*, the cilonist«, in looking about for the man who wai to succeul Sir Walter Hely-Hu chinson, fixed t'leir bopss on Mr S ddon. New Zealand h ! S its own'claims on the continued eervicts of its distinguished son, and has, indeed, taken thought to proyiiie him with a permanent home, but the phtform for the racis the ' platform of the Empiro,' and if Mr Seddon can do better wrrk in the Cape, New Zealand wi'l sp>re him. The idea is that if there is to be a temporary change in th.i Oo stit.uthn, Mr S-ddan would bs the best Governor of a Crown co'ony, for he wilt stand in a closer relation 'o the fenpl". But whether he should tike offi e in the Cape or in the Transvaal as first Governor under Lord Milner, there is a hope Mr Seddosi may t ke an active psrt in the reconstructive work to be dom in South Africa"