CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY AND THE PREMIER.

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 118, 10 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY AND THE PREMIER.

Tui l : famous Captain Jackson Barry is still in the laud of the living, it seems, and wants to go Home as New Zealand's representative instead of Mr Seddon, if that gentleman finds that ho cannot he spared. I would suggest that the gallant captain he taken in any case. He would serve admirably as a foil to Mr Seddon, and they would display to the people of the Home country two distinct types of colonists—the political and the nonpolitical. True, they would have one attribute in common. When the Premier told such stories as that about the wonderful homing pigeon that flew from Wellington to Victoria, any lingering suspicions of his veracity would be dispelled by still steeper yarns by Captain Jackson Barry. Moreover, the gallant captain having been home before, and having moved in aristocratic circles, knows the ropes, and would be able to instruct our Premier in those details of deportment with which he cannot pretend to be familiar. I look upon the captain's offer as a distinctly advantageous one, and it will take a great weight off our minds if Mr Seddon takes him along. Ami while Mr Seddon is about it he might take with him some more New Zealand curiosities. We could make up a choice little assortment or him in this city alone.—Civis.