Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
GOSSIP FROM LONDON
Colonial Premier Finds Eng
land Very Slow.
CORON TION ECHOES
INCREASE IN NUMBER OF ECCEN-
TRIO PREACHERS.
Amateur Golfers Coming to This Coun-
try-Battersea Divided as to
Carnegie Library.
CORONATION ECHOES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
LONDON, September 10, 1902.
The premier of New Zealand has gone
back to the land Of his adoption plain Mr..
Dick" Seldom, as he came. There was
some talk when he set out from New Zea-
land that he was ambitious of securing
some high official position in one of the new
South African colonies, and it was even
stated that his friends in England were
working to secure him an appointment.
Nothing has come of these representations,
and Mr.. Seldom himself has preserved a
most judicious reticence. Though during
his sojourn in England he made no effort
to please everybody, his experience has
been as bad as that Of the man who did.
He has stirred up animosities all round and
has left the mother country with his adj
miration for the Briton's national qualities
seriously impaired. They are afflicted. he
says with a strange nervousness which to
him Is inexplicable. In other words, they
lack the courage Of their Wanted imperial
ism. Sadly as those words must have fallen
from Mr.. Seddon's lips, they will bring COM
fort to many who had feared that in Down
ing street at least Seddonism might pre-
vail.
Almost the last recommendation Of the
disappointed New Zealander before he left
was that England should establish for the
colonies a permanent council on the lines
Of the India council He also recommends
the members of the cabinet, especially Mr.
Chamberlain, to visit the colonies and learn
from them the energy poor old England
lacks. Lack of enterprise, says Mr.. Sed-
don, will be the doom of England.
Aftermath of the Coronation.
Most of the .,rivate stands erected for
the coronation procession have long disap-
peared, but the government officials are af-
fording a glazing example Of ineptitude
with regard to the stands for which they
are responsible. The houses of parliament
are still hidden behind a wooden barrier and
the square in front is covered with the
wretched weather-beaten erections. The
same is true of the government offices in
Whitehall, which are fronted by board
fences shutting out light and air from the
lower stories. Two men with hammers
could remove most Of the latter in an hour
or so.
While Londoners, however, appear to
have quite reconciled themselves to the
their streets by the retention of the coro-
nation stands, they are, nevertheless, be-
traying some uneaSineSS over a suggestion
that the old bankers signs in Lombard
street should be allowed to remain as
permanent memorial of the GROWING of the
king. The subject, 1 understand, is now
engaging the attention Of the streets cons
mittee of the court of common council who
will, no doubt, consider how far the me-
MORALS in question can be exempted from
their own bylaws.
1t is a curious circumstance that during
the last five centuries repressve and per-
miSSive measures, respectively, in regard
to street signs appear to have alternated.
Richard II made it compulsory upon all inn
keepers to hang out signs, but even before