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The death of such an eminent statesman is a national calamity. My Council also respectfully request you to convey to the bereaved widow and family their expressions of sympathy in their sad bereavement. I have, &c, The Hon. the Acting-Premier of New Zealand. J. N. B. Watts, Council Clerk. Mayor and Citizens of Perth. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Perth, 11th June, 1906. Citizens of Perth deeply deplore the lamented decease of Mr. Seddon, and sincerely sympathize with people of New Zealand in the incalculable loss they have sustained. Sydney Stubbs, Mayor. Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of Boulder, Western Australia. (Telegram.) The Acting-Premier, Wellington. Boulder, 11th June, 1906. Council and citizens of Boulder express their deep sorrow at loss sustained by New Zealand and the whole world through the death of the great statesman, Mr. Seddon. J. L. Johnston, Mayor. Municipality of Coolgardie, Western Australia. Sir,— 20th June, 1906. At the regular meeting of this Council, held on the 14th instant, the following resolution was carried unanimously : " That this Council place on record their warmest sympathy with the family, and citizens of New Zealand in the lamentable death of your late Premier, Mr. Seddon." I have, &c, The Acting-Premier of New Zealand. J. A. Stewart, Town Clerk and Treasurer. Municipal District of Canterbury, New South Wales. Sir,— Town Hall, 16th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of my Council, to convey to you the following resolution unanimously passed at their meeting on the 11th day of June, 1906. May I ask you to kindly transmit the same, agreeable to their wish. I have, &c, Fred Davies, Council Clerk. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier of New Zealand. (Resolution.) " That we deeply sympathize with Mrs. Seddon and family, also with the people of New Zealand, in the great loss sustained by the death of their respected Premier, the Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon." Jeffry Denniss, Mayor. Fred Davis, Council Clerk. Mayor and Citizens of Hobart, Tasmania. Sir,— Wellington, 14th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of His Worship the Mayor, to forward you a copy of a telegram which he has received from the Mayor of Hobart, as follows : " Behalf citizens, Hobart, desire express heartfelt sympathy with New Zealand in loss sustained by death of Mr. Seddon." I have to ask that you will be good enough to convey same to the Government. I have, &c, Jno. R. Palmer, Town Clerk. Under-Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington. Mayor, Aldermen, and Residents of the Borough of Petersham, New South Wales. Sir,— Town Hall, Petersham, Sydney, 13th June, 1906. I have the honour to inform you that at a meeting of the Council of this borough, held last evening, it was unanimously resolved that a letter be sent you conveying the sincere sympathy of the Mayor, Aldermen, and residents of this large borough with Mrs. Seddon and family, and with your colonists, in the great loss occasioned them by the death of the late Right Hon. Richard Seddon, P.G, and their regret that by this sad event Australasia and the Empire generally have lost the services of one of its most gifted and eminent statesmen.