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Municipal Council of Kiama, New South Wales. Sir, — Municipal Council Chambers, Kiama, 14th June, 1906. I am desired by this Council to ask that you will please accept, on behalf of the people of this borough, the expression of their profound sympathy with the people of New Zealand in their irreparable loss by the death of their great statesman and Loble citizen, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, also with Mrs Seddon and the bereaved family. We have, &c, R. 0. Kendall, Mayor. John Holbrook, Council Clerk. Borough Council of Leichhardt, New South Wales. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Sydney, 12th June, 1906. Leichhardt Borough Council, New South Wales, conveys deepest sympathy with New Zealand in her bereavement by death of her greatest chieftain. Alas for Maoriland ! Home they brought the warrior dead. Neal, Mayor. Council and Residents of North Botany, New South Wales. Sir,— _ June, 1906. I am directed by my Council to ask you to be good enough to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family the respectful sympathy of the Municipal Council and residents of this district. Apart from the peculiarly sad circumstances attending the death of the Right Hon. Richard Seddon, his great services to New Zealand and to .Australia as a whole are recognised by all, and we desire to add our deep sense of their value and of the loss sustained by the Empire in losing one of its most distinguished sons. On behalf of the residents of North Botany, I have, &c, The Acting-Premier of New Zealand. Alfred James King, Mayor. Mayor and Councillors of Randwick, New South Wales. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Sydney, 14th June, 1906. Randwick Borough Council deeply sympathizes with New Zealand in loss of her beloved Premier. Campbell McDougall, Mayor. Corporation of the Town of St. Peter's, New South Wales. Dear Sir,— St. Peter's, 19th June, 1906. I have the honour to inform you that at a meeting of the above Corporation, on the 15th instant, a resolution was carried expressing the deep sympathy of the Council with the people of New Zealand in the great loss sustained by the death of the Right Hon. Richard Seddon. I am, &c, The Hon. the Acting-Premier, New Zealand. S. Reeves, Town Clerk. Mayor and Citizens of Temora, New South Wales. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Temora, 12th June, 1906. Public meeting carried vote sympathy New Zealand's great loss. A. D. Ness, Mayor. Mayor and Residents of Wilcannia. (Telegram.) The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. 11th June, 1906. Please convey to New Zealand our profound grief at the death of Richard Seddon, such a pillar of the British Empire. Chas. Curtis, Mayor. Mayor and Residents of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. (Telegram.) The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. 11th June, 1906. The people of Wagga unite in asking you to convey to our New Zealand kinsmen an expression of deepest sympathy in the loss they and the Empire have sustained by the lamentable death of that great statesman the Hon. Richard Seddon. Joseph Hayes, Mayor.