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We pray that the Giver of all good will sustain you in your terrible visitation, and comfort you in your declining years; and we also trust that you will find some solace in the fact that the late Hon. Richard Seddon has left " footprints on the sands of time " that will never be obliterated —only in a higher and nobler sphere. I have, &c, Mrs. R. Seddon. J. J. Barlow, Hon. Secretary. Australian Women's National League. National Club, Mercantile Chambers, 349 Collins Street, Dear Madam, — Melbourne, 25th June, 1906. I beg to inform you that the following resolution was carried at the last meeting of the executive committee : " That this committee places on record its regret at the death of Mr. R. J. Seddon, and offers its deep sympathy to his family in their sudden bereavement." This league has a membership of eleven thousand women, and every individual member heard with regret of the loss sustained in the death of Mr. Seddon. Yours, &c, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington, New Zealand. L. M. Straughton. Victorian .Naval and Military Lodge of Freemasons. Dear Madam, — Freemason's Hall, Melbourne, 16th June, 1906. I am deputed, by special resolution, to convey to you the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of the members for you in the sad loss you and your sorrowing family have sustained in the calamitous death of your beloved husband and our well-beloved brother. In offering you our condolence, we earnestly pray that the Great Architect of the Universe will pour upon your household that comfort and consolation which He, and He alone, can give in such great tribulation. With the profoundest grief and warmest attachment, believe me, Yours, &c, C Stephen Mason, P.J.G.W., Secretary. Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington, New Zealand. Combermere Lodge of Freemasons, Victoria. Dear Madam, — London Bank, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 28th June, 1906. I have been instructed by the Worshipful Master and brethren of Combermere Lodge of Freemasons, No. 752, E.C, of this city, to convey to you and the members of-your family their sincere and deep sympathy with you in your recent sad bereavement; and beg to inform you that very feeling reference was made in our lodge to the death of your illustrious husband and the great loss you and your family, the people of New Zealand, and the craft in Australia, generally, would sustain by his untimely decease. Trusting that the heartfelt sympathy of the people of the Empire may in some degree ameliorate the severity of the blow, Believe me, &c, Mrs. R. Seddon, Wellington, New Zealand. J. Campbell, Secretary. Australian Natives' Association (Maldon Branch). (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Sydney. Maldon, Victoria, 12th June, 1906. Maldon Branch Australian Natives' Association deeply sympathize great trouble. Frank Hodge, Secretary. Australian Natives' Association (Williamstown Branch). (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Williamstown, 12th June, 1906. The Williamstoyvn Branch, Australian Natives' Association, deeply deplores loss to humanity by death of Mr. Seddon, and tenders to yourself and family sincere and profound sympathy. F. Wooms, Secretary. Commercial Travellers' Association of Victoria. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Sydney. Melbourne, 11th June, 1906. Please accept our deepest sympathy. John Cornish, President.

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