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This Council are aware that no words can assuage the severe grief in which you have been plunged, but trust that in this time of trial the necessary strength will be accorded to enable you to sustain the great affliction with which you have been visited. I am instructed to forward you herewith a certified extract from the official minutes of proceedings of the Capetown Municipal Council, of the 14th June, 1906, being the first meeting held after the receipt of the news of Mr. Seddon's death. I remain, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington, New Zealand. H. G Bain, Acting Town Clerk. (Certified Extract from the Official Minutes of the Proceedings of the Capetown Municipal Council, 14th June, 1906.) At a meeting of the Town Council of the City of Capetown, held at the City Hall, Capetown, on Thursday, 14th June, 1906, at 10 o'clock a.m. Present: His Worship the Mayor (Mr. Councillor H. Liberman, J.P.), in the chair, Councillor Sir William Thorne, Kt., M.L.A., J.P. (Deputy-Mayor), and eleven Councillors. Before proceeding with the ordinary business of the Council, His Worship the Mayor made sympathetic reference to the great loss which had fallen upon the Empire, but more particularly upon the people of New Zealand, by the sudden death of their distinguished Premier, the Right Hon. Richard J. Seddon, and moved, " That this Council do place on record their sense of the great loss which the Empire has sustained in the lamentable decease of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, and do instruct the Acting Town Clerk to forward to the relatives of the late right honourable gentleman an expression of their sympathy and condolence." The motion was duly seconded by Councillor Sir William Thorne, Kt., M.L.A., J.P.,"Deputy-Mayor, and it was carried unanimously, honourable Councillors upstanding. H. G. Bain, Acting Town Clerk New-Zealanders in Capetown Dear Mrs. Seddon, — Capetown, South Africa, 13th June, 1906. We, the undersigned New-Zealanders in Capetown, beg to tender to yourself and family our deep, sincere, and heartfelt sympathy in the great and irreparable loss of your dearly beloved husband and father, ar d our late worthy Premier. We sincerely trust that your heavy burden will be lightened with the knowledge that not only New Zealand, but the whole British Empire mourns the loss of one who always steadfastly placed the colony and Empire foremost in his mind and work. I ■> Yours, &c, Herbert G Pilcher, Wm. E. Woods, Mrs. Seddon. And 18 others. Mayor, Councillors, and People of Kimberley. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Kimberley, 12th June, 1906. For Borough Council and people of Kimberley, offer sincere sympathy yourself and family on decease of your husband, whose death I regard as national loss. Mayor. New-Zealanders and Australians in Durban. (Telegram.) -Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Durban, 13th June, 1906. Durban New-Zealanders and Australians tender their sincere sympathy. Walton. New Zealand Club, Pretoria. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Pretoria, 12th June, 1906. Admiration for a great man prompts our deepest sympathy. New Zealand Club, Pretoria. North of England Association, Kimberley. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Kimberley, 13th June, 1906. Deepest sympathy from North of England Association. Transvaal Independent Labour Party. Madam, — Pretoria, 16th June, 1906 At a large and representative meeting of the above party, held on the 13th instant, a most sincere and heartfelt vote of condolence was passed to you for the recent sad and heavy loss which you have sustained.