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Our members wished me to convey to you their appreciation of your late husband's genius as a statesman, and the feeling was generally expressed that the loss is not only yours and your colony's but the Empire's at large. Will you be good enough to accept this sincere testimony of our sympathy. Yours, &c, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. H. Meadows, Secretary.

SOUTH AFRICA, VANCOUVER, AND FIJI. (TO THE GOVERNMENT.) Mayor, Town Council, and Inhabitants of East London, Cape Colony. (Telegram.) His Excellency the Governor. June, 1906. Mayor and Town Council and inhabitants of East London desire to express their sincere sympathy with the family of the late Mr. Seddon. Will you please convey message. Governor, Cape of Good Hope. New-Zealanders in Cape Town. (Telegram.) Hon. W. Hall-Jones. Cape Town, 13th June, 1906. Convey heartfelt condolence bereaved family Seddon from New-Zealanders Cape Town. Send wreath in our name. Pilcher, Cape Town. New Zealand Government Agent in Cape Town. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. 12th June, 1906. Deeply grieved Mr. Seddon's death. Convey sincerest sympathy relatives. Pilcher. Transvaal Independent Labour Party. Sir,— Pretoria, 16th June, 1906. At a large and representative meeting of the members of the above party, held on the 13th instant, a unanimous vote of condolence was passed to the members of the Parliament and the people of New Zealand in the great loss which you have recently sustained in the lamented death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.G It is felt by our party that his death is a loss not only to his colony but to the Empire at large. Will you please accept this, our heartfelt sympathy, for your Parliament and people. Yours, &c, Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington, New Zealand. H. A. S. Meadows, Hon. Secretary. Lancashire-Yorkshire Society, Port Elizabeth. (Telegram.) Sir Joseph Ward, Wellington. Port Elizabeth, 13th June, 1906. Sympathy. Lancashire-Yorkshire Society. The Australasian Club, Vancouver, B.C. To the Government and People of New Zealand. Vancouver, 8.C., 20th June, 1906. At a meeting of the members and friends of the above club, held recently, the following resolution was carried unanimously : " That this meeting of Australasians, held in Canada, at Vancouver, 8.C., 14th June, 1906, learns with sincere regret of the decease of Mr. Richard Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand ; and recognises that in the death of so distinguished a statesman, New Zealand has lost her best friend, Australasians have lost a most useful and valuable politician, and the Empire a strong and enthusiastic ally. That the above be transmitted to the Government of New Zealand, conveying through them to the family of the deceased statesman and the people of New Zealand an expression of the deepest sympathy in their bereavement." For the meeting, R. H. Kingsford Smith, Secretary. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Citizens of Levuka. (Telegram.) Acting Prime Minister, Wellington. Levuka, 12th June, 1906. Citizens of Levuka tender heartfelt sympathy. Hedstrom, Warden.