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Greytown Working-men's Club. Dear Sir,— Greytown, 13th June, 1906. Will you kindly convey to your dear mother and her family the deepest sympathy of the members of the Greytown Working-men's Club in your great bereavement. We feel that while your mother has lost a loving husband and you a kind father, New Zealand has lost her greatest statesman. May the knowledge that New Zealand grieves with you assist you to bear up under your great loss. Yours, &c, Captain Seddon, Wellington. H. Humphries, President. Imperial Veterans' Alliance. Dear Sir, — Dunedin, 17th June, 1906. At a general meeting of this Alliance held yesterday, the veterans present desired me to convey their profound sympathy and condolence to Mrs. Seddon and family in their irreparable loss. At a humble distance the veterans sorrow with you. In deepest sympathy. I am, &c, Captain Seddon, Wellington. Sydney Davies, Secretary. (Telegram.) Canterbury Defence Forces. Captain Seddon, Wellington. Christchurch, 21st June, 1906. Eighty-six officers Canterbury Forces on parade at Memorial Service to-day passed resolution conveying sympathy and condolences to Mrs. Seddon and her family. A. Bauchop, Lieut.-Colonel. (Telegram.) Returned Troopers' Association. Captain Seddon, Wellington. . Nelson, 15th June, 1906. Returned Troopers' Association desires to express sincere sympathy and condolence in the irreparable loss sustained by death of your beloved father. M. Stewart, Secretary. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (Southland Branch). (Telegram). Captain Seddon, Wellington. Invercargill, 12th June, 1906. Southland Railway Men Amalgamated Society deeply sympathize with you and yours in your sad bereavement. M. Thomas. (Telegram.) Nelson College Old Boys' Association. Captain Seddon, Wellington. Nelson, 11th June, 1906. Committee of Nelson College Old Boys' Association desire to convey to you deepest sympathy in your unspeakable bereavement. Gibbs, President. Milner, Secretary. Shipmasters' Association of New Zealand. Dear Miss Seddon, — Temple Chambers, Johnston Street, Wellington, 13th June, 1906. On behalf of members of the Shipmasters' Association, I beg that you will convey to your mother the deep sympathy felt by shipmasters with Mrs. Seddon in her great bereavement. "Your late father numbered many personal friends amongst the masters in our ranks, and, travelling so frequently as he did, he came into personal contact with the majority of the masters. I feel that any poor words of mine are quite inadequate to express the deep sense of personal loss felt by our members at his untimely death, but Mrs. Seddon will accept and understand the heartfelt sympathy of masters which I have endeavoured to convey. . Please accept my personal condolence, and believe me, Respectfully yours, Miss Seddon, Molesworth Street. J. W. Williams, Secretary. St. John's Ambulance Association, Wellington. Dear Miss Seddon,— 27th June, 1906. In an eloquent speech at the annual meeting of the local centre of the St. John's Ambulance Association last evening, the Most Rev. Archbishop Redwood referred to the aggregation of high qualities characteristic of your father, the late Premier, at the conclusion of which His Grace proposed the following resolution, which was put to the meeting by His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington and carried while those present were standing : " That this meeting of the Wellington Branch of the St. John's Ambulance Association, sharing largely in the universal sorrow felt at the demise of one so deservedly admired and loved for his qualities as a man,-and his achievements as a statesman, begs respectfully to tender to Mrs. Seddon and family the heartfelt expression of its sympathy with them in their sad and sudden bereavement and their irreparable loss." Believe me, &c, W. B. Fisher,