DEATH of MR SEDDON.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 15 June 1906, Page 3

DEATH of MR SEDDON.

Motion of Sympathy. At the Waipukurau Town Board meeting last night, The chairman (Mr ‘ Chambers) mentioned the irr parable loss the colony had Batten d miough the death of the New Zealand Premier. He eulogised‘the deceased statesman, who had been a striking figure throughout the whole world of politics, for other countries were copying his methods. It was some consolation to know the Premier had died in harness and when in the zenith of his power. The chairman moved in effect, that this board forward to the Acting-Pre-mier its sincerest regret at the loss the Empire has sustained by the death of our late Premier.—-Com’r Williams seconded, and the motion was carried in silence, the members standing. Maori Sympathy. The Hon. J Carroll, telegraphing in Maori from Auckland to Mr A.L- D. Fraser, M.H.ft. f<»r Napier, now in Wellington, said :— My friend. Our parent has responded to the final call. He has gone, fallal the hands of the sole arbiter and vanquisher. Gfo, you the guide of the canoe of destiny (Haere te Kaihautu o te Waka), the anchorage ground of tribal welfare; go by the paths trodden by history, worn by the illustrious dead- To us alone is the valley of sorrow. Enough, friend. We bow to death. Yet in this death we find a weaving influence (tatau a tuitui), an influence that binds and bids us to be strong. Differences and divergences of yore should pass away, and in their place there should arise a monument to our dead, the lesion from which should be a new 7 horizon —the horizon of great works to do. This work done, no more sacred shrine could be erected to speak of him who sowed the seed. The Rapid Traveller. Perhaps the most remarkable tour ever made by a public man in New Zealand or elsewhere was the meteoric dash of Mr Seduon’s during the last election campaign. He left Wellington on November 7th for the North, speaking every day, sometimes as often as six times a day, umil returning to Wellington on the 26th. The following dav he was off again to Manawatu, and the day after he had left for Christchurch. He had a triumphal passage through the South Island, and returned to Wellington on the morning of the election, December 6th. Nobody but a giant could have stood wear and tear of that lighting peregrination.