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ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, LEAGUES, CLUBS, ETC (TO THE GOVERNMENT.) Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Dear Sir,— 167 Queen Street, Auckland, 18th June, 1906. I have been requested to send to you a copy of the enclosed letter which has been forwarded to Mrs. Seddon by the executive of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association in accordance with a resolution passed at their meeting on Friday. I have, <fee, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Edwin Hall, Secretary. Dear Madam, — 167 Queen Street, Auckland, 18th June, 1906. At a meeting of our executive, held on Friday last, I was instructed to write to you expressing the deep regret with yvhich the Auckland Agricultural Association learned of the death of your husband (the late Premier), and their sympathy with you and your family in your sad bereavement. They also desired me at the same time to express their high appreciation of the distinguished services rendered by him to the people of New Zealand and to the Empire. I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Edwin Hall, Secretary. Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Christchurch, 14th June, 1906. Committee, Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, desires to express its profound sorrow at the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of the colony, and that an expression of deepest sympathy be tendered to Mrs. Seddon and family in their great bereavement. Pemberton, Secretary. Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Palmerston North, 12th June, 1906. At monthly meeting of my committee to-day a unanimous resolution of sympathy to yourself and Ministers was carried in silence at the sey r ere loss to the colony through death of the Premier. The meeting then adjourned out of respect to deceased statesman. Lane, Secretary. Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Richmond, 13th June, 1906. Members of the Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association wish you to convey deepest sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and family in their sad bereavement, and the irreparable loss the country has sustained in the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon. John Glen, Secretary. Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Sir,— Dunedin, 12th July, 1906. By direction of my committee, I wish to submit to you the following resolution which was passed by my committee at its last meeting : " That the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society desires to place on record its sense of loss the country has sustained through the death of the Right Hon. Mr. Seddon, our late Premier." I have, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. H. V. Fulton, Secretary. Raglan and Kawhia Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Dear Sir,— Raglan, 2nd July, 1906. I am directed by the Raglan and Kawhia Agricultural and Pastoral Association to forward to you a copy of a resolution passed by the members at their annual meeting, held on the 30th ultimo, and to ask you to be good enough to convey it to the proper quarters. The resolution was : " That this meeting desires to express its sincere sympathy with the widow and family of the late Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, in their recent sad bereavement, and also its sense of the loss the colony has sustained by his decease." I have, (fee, Hon. the Premier, Wellington. Frank Green, Secretary. Clutha and Matau Agricultural and Pastoral Society. g IR _ Balclutha, sth July, 1906. I have the honour to inform you that the committee of the Clutha and Matau Agricultural and Pastoral Society at its last meeting passed the following resolution in regard to the death of the

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