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AUSTRALIAN MAYORS AND MUNICIPALITIES. (TO MRS. SEDDON.) Municipal Council of Sydney. Dear Madam,— Town Hall, Sydney, 14th June, 1906. I beg to inform you that at a meeting of the Sydney Municipal Council on the 12th instant a resolution expressive of the Council's sense of profound sorrow at the lamentably sudden death of your late husband, and its high appreciation of the permanent benefits which his long public service yielded to New Zealand, was unanimously carried, and I was directed to convey to you the condolence of the Council and citizens of Sydney in your sad bereavement. Mr. Seddon's warm interest in the progress of Australia, and in all questions affecting the unity of the British race, marked him as a statesman of the Empire, and the memory of his noble character and achiey r ements is sure to be long cherished in these lands. Believe me, &c, Allen Taylor, Lord Mayor of Sydney. Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. New Zealand. In witness hereof the common seal of the Council was hereto affixed by me. —T. H. Nesbitt, Town Clerk. The Council Clerk, Bexley, to the Premier, New South Wales. June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction, to inform you that the subjoined resolution was passed at the last meeting of this Council, and to request that you will be so good as to convey it to Mrs. Seddon. Richard W. Churchill, Council Clerk. (Resolution.) " That this Council places on record its deep regret at the loss which the community has sustained by the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.G, Premier of New Zealand, and that the sympathy of the Council be conveyed to Mrs. Seddon and the members of the family in their great bereay^ement." Townspeople of Broken Hill. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Sydney. Broken Hill, 11th June, 1906. People Broken Hill express deepest sympathy with you in your sad bereavement. T. Ivey, Mayor. Murwillumbah Council, New South Wales Madam, — Council Chambers, Murwillumbah, 15th June, 1906. I am instructed by the members of my Council to convey to you the folloyving resolution, which was unanimously carried at their first meeting since the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon : Resolution by Alderman Strut, seconded by A. Budd, " That this Council expresses its sense of the great loss to the Empire by the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and conveys its deepest sympathy with Mrs. Seddon on the loss of her noble husband." I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, New Zealand. Robt. Campbell, Council Clerk. City Council of Newcastle, New South Wales. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Sydney. Neyvcastle, 11th June, 1906. The Newcastle Council tenders to you and your family its deepest sympathy, and records its high appreciation of the eminent services of the deceased statesman, Richard Seddon. Arthur H. James, Mayor. Paddington Municipal Council, New South Wales. Dear Madam, — Town Hall, Paddington, 12th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction, to convey to you and members of your family an expression of the sincere and very deep sympathy of the Paddington Municipal Council in connection with your recent lamentable bereavement. It is recognised that your loss is also that of the great colony with whose destinies the departed statesman was so eminently associated for many years, and I am to assure you of the high esteem and regard in which he was held by the people in this as in other parts of our State and elsewhere in Australia. I have, &c., Mrs. Seddon. Town Clerk.