Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-027

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon with muddy hands, as he digs at the site of the Port Chalmers dry dock. He is speaking to a man in suit and hat. The suited man is William Cable, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board in 1904-1905. He was known to point out often that "big shipping repair jobs were constantly being sent out to Lyttelton or Port Chalmerse reason that Wellington, with the best commercial harbour in the country, had no dock at all" (See Cable's obituary, Dominion, 10 June 1922 - pasted in NZ Obituaries, volume 2 (1922), page 18) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-033

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon as a puppet master at a side show. He hands out a puppet to an "intelligent Port [Chalmers] elector", who rejects it because it represents Barclay, a supporter of Seddon in the matter of the Port Chalmers dock. Alfred Richard Barclay was the successful electoral candidate for Dunedin North in 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 285 x 230 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-035

Description: Shows a full-length caricature portrait of Dunedin lawyer William Downie Stewart. Downie Stewart was an unsuccessful candidate for Dunedin South in the 1905 general election. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 170 x 60 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-026

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon setting a gin trap for rabbits in the moonlight. Politician Joseph Ward is seen on all fours behind a tree in the background. Verses beneath the image describe the unimaginative and dependent behaviour of political candidates allied to Seddon. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 273 x 240 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-040

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon trying to gag a man called Free Speech, while Joseph Ward tries to stop four politicians who shout from behind an "Historic Stone Wall erected by Massey, Taylor, Fisher [and] Bedford". Seddon asks Joe (Joseph Ward) to stop the noise while he puts through an amendment to prevent anyone mentioning Heroes or Oats. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 170 x 205 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-039

Description: Shows a man seated with folded arms and legs crossed. The subject is probably Prime Minister Seddon's son, Richard John Spotswood Seddon. Other Titles - Spotswood Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 95 x 80 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); Blomfield, William, 1866-1938

Reference: A-225-023

Description: Shows politician William Rolleston performing on stage with a magician's cloth labelled "Abuse of the government". Other politicians wait in the wings, and the audience laughs. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 287 x 220 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1890

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-022

Description: Shows a running race, two runners about to break the tape together. One is a robust bearded man dressed in a kilt, and the other is a slighter man. Well back in the field are runners labelled "Spirits" and "Water". The kilted runner is probably candidate Thomas Kennedy Macdonald, and the other runner may be either John Duthie or H D Bell. This is a galley proof rather that a newsclipping. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 240 x 340 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-034

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon in a tipping boat, clutching on to a rock [?] (his party), while a shark named Massey lies in wait below him. The New Liberals are shags waiting on a floating wharf. Seddon says: "I don't mind Massey waiting for me, byt what raises my gorge is that my fall will rejoice those blasted shags on their rotten perch". Subscript: (Note little Bedford on the perch) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); Blomfield, William, 1866-1938

Reference: A-225-024

Description: Shows politician William Rolleston lamenting over the fate of class legislation, killed by democracy, and interred after the 1893 general election (which was in fact held on 28 November, after this cartoon was published). Richard Seddon as a stone-mason is carving the memorial statue to this concept. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 287 x 220 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..