HON. RICHARD JOHN SEDDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4166, 16 July 1892, Page 2

HON. RICHARD JOHN SEDDON.

[FROM THE EVENING PRESS,] The figure looms large upon the view, Years ago it used to stand up with a certain rugged dignity,: which it never lost, even when the ; untufored torque curried the man beyond: hie depth in the' English language, and left him floundering clumsily jq, vain' effortstoreaolihispoint.' 'That was Sneddon (if Djgk," of the. West Cpi (lianty)j an uncultured, unrefined denizen oj the' pjy "settlemepfs, When the burly figure now stands up it has. an acquired dignity.; Its head is thrown back, the eye lashes, the full rounded; tones have ,a ; decision, not to say truculence, in them, and the frame is instinct with life. This is a notable figure in the House; this is ; what'wi'"pick7' Beddoni flrsti' while tbepoMyalloper, the boon co.m : panibhf'TvhO/thbugh olumsy, .jvas never a boor; wlip, though unetta: i cated, was never a fool j though coin- ; ical and laughable, was never actually j ridiculous, Way for the Honourable

Richard.—Minister of the Crown, the companions of earls, and favoured in salons.

"Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought aglass, ' That I may see ray shadow as I pass." Here is another professional politician, enamoured of the game, but swayed more by ambition probably than by a sciontifio love of the game. Riohard was not long in Parliament before ambition awoke within him, and there rushed upon him a desire (that had in it something noble) to risp to distinction. He started with grievous disadvantages. An awkward elephantine stylo was his, and when he opened his mouth he played the misohief with a language of which he had learned painfully little ;'and he was a long time crossing the almost interminable bridge from the colloquialism of the tip room to propriety of the Chamber, But, undismayed, he started with a stout heart and manly resolve, and, little by little he improved, and there flashed out from tlio rugged rock, now and then a streak of gold. On ho went, lifting himself by huge efforts, until he became a keen debater, aud no inexperienced Parliamentarian -at length developing into an "institution" of the Legislature. What wonder that when the Cabinet was formed "Dick," the friend of all, the champion and brother of the" 'orny'anded," should be offered a portfolio? We shall never know how something underneath Dick's waistcoat thumped against his ribs when he first saw the " Honourable R.J." on bia letters, Bravo, Dick I Bien! Maintenant, e'est Monsieur k Minislre! How does he' bear his " blushing honours thick upon him ?" He Bits in tbo House a tower of strength, massive and ready. You may lease him a little, you may tickle him, you may even throw a wordy pebble or two at him now and then and he will shake his great sides and laugh, But in Dick's laugh there is generally a menace, and one catches an undercurrent of roar. Suddenly things take a turn j some member throws a stone too hard, or digs him in the ribs too facetiously. i Then ap-rises the. angry elephant , waving his right arm like a trunk, as if striving to grasp his enemy, and the roar becomes loud and defiant. The Hon. Richard incensed, as he not infrequently iB, is a study. It is then ' that the real power of the individual appears, With rather laboured phraseology, be marches on heavily and painfully, he lacks words and his heaving chest and vehement efforts to rouse them out of the store-house of his memory, his flashes of success and intervals of failure, his unquailing courage and tireless speed, all , betoken a. man with a high purpose, whose great resolve enables him to dominate his many disadvantages. ■ There is always in his favour his ■ rugged and rather picturesque per- ' sonality, his bluntness, and full round ' voice. Such a man would be an acceptable guest anywhere, and it is not . wonderful that be was last year the , prime favourite at Government House. > But there is nothing of the flunkey ■ about Hiohard,

But noire cher Eiohard has begun to dream dreams,-why may he not some day lead the strong batallio'n in which he now holds an important command? Would not trouble with a foreign foe make his name? We trow it would; for Diok would then shine us Minister for Defence. Perhaps the Ihoughthas occurred to himself now and then I Who knows? Mr Minister has acquired dignity too. See how my Lord receives deputations, see his stately affability! Can this be the blundering member of years gone by? The Hon. Riohard has many friends and few enemies. There is in him a certain generosity of sentiment, and (despite ambition) a freedom from Yulgar conceit and personal vanity, that one cannot but like in him. Above all he is thoroughly a man of his word, so direct and blunt, so devoted to his department and the colony. Yet somehow the semi-socialistic garb sits ill upon him, Dick (whisper it in your ear) is a Conservative <m -fond, and in some respects we think he will be found to be the brake of the Cabinet coaoh, Dick will never sanction extremes. He was not a very ardent championjjf theone-man-one-vole principal even. He is satisfied with things as they are, but not a step further would he go, we are surr. Diok loves the people with a manly, sensible, brotherly love, but he isn't too much enamoured of certain influences which are all powerful with more than one of his colleagues, Now he is in power, the Honourable Richard will brook no dictation and mighty little direction. Thecolopyhasip its Minister for Defence a powerful man, and a hardworking,—ambitions and imperious, but devoted, to the colony and with his heart so far in its right place. Adieu, Riohard ? •

The Wellington Evoning Press is too inquisitive. It wants to know how much ministers charged «b travelling expenses for canvassing during the Bruce election, Mr John Young, ironmonger of Wellington, who recently became insolvent, attributed his difficulties in the first instance to losses sustained in opening a branch at Masterton. During 1888 ho opened a branch business hero, and in order to supply the anticipated larger demand he increased his direct importations from England. His expectations from tho Masterton business were at first realised, but in a short time the old established houses reduced their prices and no was consequently compelled to abandon' the business and realise at reduced rates, ■ JJr Young'h.at} eyentutually to file in consequence of an eie.cu. tlon being put in on his shop.' The total liabilities' in the estate amount to £1,470155, and the Qsaets are estimated at £1,325, leaving a deficiency of £145 15a. ■ ■!■■.■.

Yesterday in the House of Representatives duriug a scuffle of words, Mr Hop interposed with an expression of opinion that tJve'Bneaker had ruled that the term'" insulting" ,was only aduiissibjewben applied to the Government. This broughjt a sharp rehuae from the Speaker, who jnformed the member for Maatertop • th'af' tbo chair knew no distinction, ' v '

Madame Knymond, referred to In a ) recent oablegratn.iij onlj? 24 years of age, ! Bhe cau?bt her husband, with Madame | Lassirannnej a woman of the tame age, I and in addition : to -Bhoobing her, polg--1 niardod her, death ensuing a few hours ' later. ! Both ladies had been friends arid [ playmates from infancy] both were beau • i tiful, moved in good looiety, end were , fairly rioh.: Baymohd 1> a native of ■ BuenosAyres,*oqinirjißßiqrjagent; Ufa [ said that he can hypnoti!e.!,':?W d W , » »t ; his good will and pleasure,-<M.:Lassl-fflfinnejs a/lawyer; be was temporarily separated from, his wjfe, preparatory to obtainihK a divorce on account of her jn t compatibility' of temperament. ,He did not tako"the fata 'othis'wife much to heart. '. He'intends to make a vojaeje to' Außtralla,''One writer states:'"Odd,' all the sympathy is for the killed woman, none for the wife's mind and heart she has wreoked. No .moralist has,worked hims'elfj u»' to any indignation, point apnst itaymond. '.':Heu''frebto indulßo, in libidinous hytj'ndflsm till it is tr) be' hoped he may encounter * Deacon avenger." Deacon is an . e&Boston banker, who recently shot 11 Abeille, an ugly rake, aged I

A phonograph, with'the latest inr. provements, is now: boirig shown iu Woodville. It should soon, therefore, reach Masterton in tho course of its tour.

A West Coast hotelkeeper has been fined £8 for permitting drunkenness on his premises. It is not an easy matter to obtain' a conviction in caseß of this kind, and even a solitary instance of its being achieved comes almost as a surprise,

Mr K. McKonzio's horse Potaka broke his neck on the Hutt Bncecourse yeaterday morning. He was exercising, when he put his foot into a liolo and came down with a crash, receiving fatal mjnry.

The following telegram him been received by a business man in Masterton! —"J have arrested him in Sydney, so you may all meet again." Need more be said!

The Auckland 'Star' says tho slackness of intercolonial trade at present -especially so far as the kauri timber business is concerned is somewhat strikingly attested by the number of sailing vessels " laying up " in Auckland Harbour just, now, awaiting heights. 'J here are how six or seven locnliy-owued, good-sized sailing crafts laid at anchor, forming, with the coal hulks at their moorings, a beautiful "Rotten Row." Two English vessels fitted with freezing appliances aro are aho laid up. ; ■ Tho Legislative Council, for the third time, has passed the Libel Bill. It is to bo hoped that the House of Representatives will do its duty iu the matter and to the press of tho Colony by passing the measure this session and letting it become law.

In the debate In the Houso on. the eleotoral bill and the single voto qualfication of Maoris, Mr Hogg, referring to the proposal to give them the option of ; registering on the freehold qualification, held that the Natives were not educated up to it and that their votes were a purchasable commodity. Ho also made other aspersions. This is how tho Evening Postcastigatej the 'Jenymaundorer': "It is impossible to uso language too strong to, condemn the coarse but characteristic libel which the member for Masterton last night uttered regarding Maori electors, We doubt whether any consideration would induce a body of intelliaent Natives to cast their votes for a candidate of Mr Hogg's calibre or Btatus. That this should be so, is certainly no proof of their unfitness to enjoy eleotoral privileges." Weights for the Wairarapn HutitOlub Steeplechase Meeting will be declared on Monday, the 18th inst, arid acceptances for all events close at the Empire Hotel, Featherston, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, the 20th inst. ■

Absolute prohibition is aimed at in Mr Joyce's Liquor Truffle Local Option Bill. It provides that apoll of each district bo taken every three years to decide whether or not there shall beany licenaoa, and one tenth of the ratepayers may, on application, secure a poll at any time. The moaaure, the Evening Post thinks, will have little ohance in the House, Mr Meredith, M.H.R., remarked in the House that charitable aid should be administered by the local bodies which raise the contributions, and not by centralbodies, He thinks the present system is creating a pauper class, At Groytown Hospital the individual average stay of patients is sixteen days—the lowest in the Colony, Already evory seat but one has been engaged in the special four-horse coach which is to run from Masterfcon to the Hunt Dance at Greytown, on Friday next., We are evidently not yet past the ago of: frisk ■ and frolio, when sixteen miles is no bar to participation m an evening's dancing,

_ A cablegram published in every payor in the Colony yesterday alter announcing that the R.M.B. Arcadia had arrived at Albany added; " Passengers for New Zealand, Messrs Smith (2)," 'lhe prospective society of one other Smith, more or less, certainly will make little difference to our enjoyment, still if the advent of additional membora of the great family was worth casing at all, initials to the naraeß would, at least hayo given the telegram an air of precision which it lacks now, and would liavo saved the iuquiiy ** Which ?" The snow-clad Kaikoura mountains of the South Island can be seen from Maryborough, and on Thursday, remarks the Standard's correspondent, they were clearly visible in their majestic grandeur, despite the far-off distance. A'few weeks ago we should not have wondered had a tourist, eager to view the natural wonders of the Colony, been directed to Queen-street, Master ton, for the famous mud springs of the Jiorth Island, Had that globe-trotter vißited our centre of civilisation he would, we feel sure, have either been quite satisfied with what we had to show him, or else he would be precious hard to please, A glance at Queen-street, and the thought of deception would never have ontered his head. But we are not without rivals who envy us our glories it 6eems, and must create little marvels of their own, for thus reads an advertisement in the Greytown paper i-" Wonted to buyj a punt, to enablo Greytown residents to cross the stream opposite Mr George Humphries' house, In Wood-Btreefc. Tenders for same to be sent to the Clerk of the Borough Council by Ist August, The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted."

Ithnsbeenaaid "many a timn and oft" that do prophet hath honour in his own country, but experience has not proved that thiß statement is invariably correct, For instance, was Eeaconsfield without honour ? Is Gladstone without honour ? Is H, M, Stanley without honour? Is Bismarck, tho " man of blood and iron," without honour?-he has now, alas! somewhat fallen from his former high estate, but still he has honour I Coming nearer home, are Mr Ballance, Sir Robert Stout, Sir John Hall, or Mr Rolleaton, without honour ? No, none of theso are without honour, and tightly so, too, for all have some qualities deserving of the highest commendation. ' But the person entitled to the highest honour, esteem, And respect is he who endeavours to alleviate in some measure the sufferings of mankind, Such an one is Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, the discoverer of the now famous Aubert Remedies, "Paramo," "Karana," "Natanata,"and "Marupa," There are many who scoff at what aro called " patent medicines," but let it be remembered that there aro patent medicines and patent medicines.'The Aubert Reifledjej ape fhe theme of universal praise—and why | Because j,hey are not mere quack demotions, but are. pure herbal medicines prepared solely from New Zealand plants the medicinal values of which, for various complaints, have been accurately ascertained aftor years of patient and laborious research, Not only in New Zealand but in Australia lias the fame of these preparations become universally known, and it is confidently anted that no medicines have achieved such instantaneous success as the Aubert Remedies.

Jlow in it! M anyone in the crowd, Ask yoiifnoit tor neighbour, M'tho man wlip ■ poUecfs ticjeets on tho railway. 'Ask the , people who dwell i'n Eketahpa,'Mauricevjllo, i Tonui, Carterton, Qreytowo, or anywhere c]se, Communicate with: the people living in Bny part of the country,. Ablt, them all why ! tkey shop ftiL- J. HOOPER 4 COMPANY'S, 1 eridthoy will tell you "because it suits them,! And why does it suit them ? Beeanso they, get more and better in exchange for tVcir money ; at the Son Warcbe than anywhere else, and • because the oonvonlenaea of tbo place ate suob as no other establishment can afford. These are the bare,outline!.of the /reasoning that i brings tie people in shoals to this wonderful "'we of business. Visit ;th'e, various departments in wES tnßl?rdlycfc4turemah : fihdß all he .wants, and womari™!?^*^?. 1 ! - . loves to lingered lookatthe fashion section, Herpere the Boulevards of Paris and the shops of Regent anr) fjxford streets, London, rolled iutoorifc Hereunder your eye are the fashions arranged, classified,, and ready.for immediato use and • wear. ■ Turn' into : - the grocery and provision sections,. .These are of interest to every man jack in the" community; To describe the advantages of buying from Hooper would fill ibook,; 'Whether you' want blankets or bonnets, tea or, sugar,. whether you're a }chUly. ; mortal .a hot: .member, a • Protectionist; a' '• freetrader) •'a :: ''sfe'ialist, a cillthumpian, a positivlst, a none suob, or a rabbit'eatcher, you sjillfindno'befe outlet for the money you'havn to spend than at Hooper and Company's Bon Marclie, Heater. ,ton,-Advt'j