SEDDON-TAYLOR CASE

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1393, 2 March 1905, Page 2

SEDDON-TAYLOR CASE

Mr Seddon may well exclaim “ save me rom my friends ” after his experience oi Colonel Porter last week (says the Manawatu Standard). The old veteran, it will be remembered, was subpoenaed as a witness in the Seddon v, Taylor case, but was not called to give evidence. He was apparently bursting to throw light on certain military events in South Africa, with which the above action was connected, and managed to get himself interviewed at Gisborne a day or two ago by an enterprising reporter, a summary of his re- I marks being sent through the colony by the Press Association. And now the fat is J in the fire. No doubt Porter thought he | was doing Seddon, junior, a good turn, but the Premier and his son hold a different opinion. The Premier says Captain Seddon and himself resent Porter’s action; that tho Seddon-Toylor case has been settled, and there it should have been allowed to rest. We think the people as a whole will thoroughly agree with the Premier’s remarks. The mud-throwing that has taken place in connection with the Seddon-Taylor case has not tended to raise the tone of political life in this colony, and thp ppblie generally felt relieved when it was known that a settlement of the case had beeD arranged. But [ the history of the affair has been revived I by a tactless, foolish old man, who hasn’t sufficient discretion to keep in out of the I wet. As Porter is a Government officer, I be will probably feel very wet and limp I by ipq time Seddon, senior, is finished with him, and he will wish that his rough diary had fallen into the hands of the Boers, and that his memory had become too defective to enable him to recollect what bad taken place at the historic enquiry after the Blesbok action.