THE MANS INDOMITABLE ENERGY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8132, 12 June 1906, Page 2

THE MANS INDOMITABLE ENERGY.

ADVICE OF MEDICAL MEN IGNORED. TEH WIKSS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, Juno 11, Though tho fact was not generally known, the health of the Premier during the last twelye months or more, that is to say during the timo that has elapsed since ho was supposed to recover from the seyere illness that attacked him in 1903, has been such as to cause his family and intimate friends alarm. Vi.Some of the sea trips suddenly undertaken have been dictated as much or more for health reasons than for political policy. There was an impression that the chiof trouble ivn a cerebral one, but a i " Evening Post" reporter learned from an intimate relative of the Premier th it Mr Seddon has suffered from a heart affection for tho past two or threo years. He was warned on the occasion of his previous visit to Melbourne, that ho would havo to be very careful m his movements, and must not even attempt to go up a staircase, yet he has been leading a strenuous life ever since that time. Mr Seddon appeared to be a very much older man than he actually was, for ho would have been only 61 years of ago on the 22nd inst. A committee of Wellington friends and supporters had arranged to give him a monster birthday party in the Town Hall on the 22nd, and a handsomo casket was to have been presented to him as a souvenir of the occasion. He had been fcrty years in tho Colony.