THE PREMIER ON THE WARPATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7972, 8 November 1905, Page 2

THE PREMIER ON THE WARPATH.

" AS FIT AS A FIDDLE." AN MTRRESTIKG MTfcRY'KW. The Right (Hon. the Premier was a | passenger by the mail train last . cvmiiig, en ionic to the N»rlli«n ' City. A considerable number ol lail- c ics and gentlemen were in waiting on the plaUonu to greet th.- lion, gin- i tleman, and one and all expressed the ' greatest pleasure that he looked so ' well. "Well," said Mr Seddon, in answer lo dozens of eager enquiries, "1 iievir felt, better ; 1 am as lit as a liddle." •' lie looks it. "liut," lie said, "my trouble is that 1 have gained a stone during the session, and the doctor sayi that should no; be.' Hi-laugh-ed. "Never mind," he said, "I'm going to give Massey a turn, and I'm going to do most ot it or. horseback, aiid'so I expect I'll get it down somehow." 'lhose present smiled, but said nothing. The Daily News man here got in a word, and asked Dick where he was off to. "I speak al I'aevoa to-morrow night, my boy," said lie ; "next day I will open the railway from Paeroa to Waihi, and I expect there will be something on on that, night 4n the city of the goldmine. I hope to deliver an address in Auckland' alioul the 10 th inst. "When is the election going to lake place'.'" said the Newsman. "On Dec. (!," replied the Premier ; "there is no secret about that, now." Asked about, the post office, Mr Seddon said that Sir Joseph Ward would take a "run up" here, and the Mayor ought to "fix" him for a date. There were a lot of other enquiries in progress, when it was "all aboard," the. train whistled, and so the Premies went on his Northern tour, amid three, hearty cheers given by his admirers.