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Westport Trotting Club. (Telegram.) Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Westport, 16th June, 1906. At a meeting of my committee a resolution yvas passed requesting you to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family the extreme sorrow and regret at the loss of a devoted husband and father, and the loss to the country of the greatest statesman New Zealand has ever had. T. Slee, Secretary, Westport Trotting Club. Ohura Settlers. (Telegram.) Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Ohura, 14th June, 1906 Ohura settlers tender their sympathy and regrets to Mrs. Seddon and family in their sad bereavement. They regret the loss of such an able statesman and true friend of the people. W. Williams, Settlers of Whakapirau and Bickerstaffe. Dear Sir, — Whakapirau, Kaipara, 9th July, 1906, I have enclosed you a paper, signed by the residents of Whakapirau and Bickerstaffe, re the great loss sustained by the Empire and the colony in regard to Mr. Seddon's death. They wished to show their appreciation of our late friend in a body. With kind regards, I am, &c, W. Heathcote Jackman. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Premier, Wellington. We, the undersigned settlers and residents of Whakapirau and Bickerstaffe, wish to place on record our great esteem and admiration for the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, also to express our sorrow at the great loss the Empire and the colony have sustained by his death. We would ask you to convey our deepest sympathy to Mrs. Seddon in her great affliction, and assure her that her late husband's name will always be held in loving remembrance by the people of New Zealand. We also especially wish to call your attention to this fact : that previous to the purchase of Bickerstaffe by the Government that estate supported six families ; at the present time twenty-six faimlies are making a good living, in addition to those employed on the experimental station. We can only hope and trust that your Government will endeavour to carry out the progressive policy of your great predecessor, together with the great principle that guided all his actions—namely, fairplay to all sections of the community. W. Heathcote Jackman. Ada Walker. C E. F. Upton Harry Winser. E. Taylor. John New. Wm. Bridgman. Percy Hill. John E. Dayvson Thomas H. Hill. James Milne. P. Noyer. H. L. Beauchamp. Walter Underwood. T. R. Williams. E. Bell. Richard L. Paige. N. Diracca W. Connley. James M. Bowman. Ernest Hargreaves. J. T. Carter. Henry Bowers. Sophie Milne. John Taylor. Lizzie Bowers. John Wm. Paton. D. W. Lawson. R. Bell. Edith Jackman. V. McMurdo. Arthur Hill. L. A. Hare. E. W. H. Jackman. Wm. Thomas. J. Bell. A. Forrester. Rod. F. Lewis. A. Masefield. W. Upton. A. F. Lewis. Wm. Masefield. A. A. Bull. William Peoples. A. E. C. Snee. H. Chadwick. Charles Peoples. J. Lawson. Florence Hamley. Mrs. William Peoples. Wm. Wharfe. J. Williams. Mrs. C. Peoples. M. F. Lawson. J. Hamley. Jutly W. Hill. Thos. J. Stewart. Thos. Webb. F. Wilmot Hare. E. Rimber. John H. Wood. J. B. Cooksey. M. S. James. John Masefield. D. Milne. F. James. E. M. Lusk. Nicholas Martin. S. Lush. James McKenzie. William Stoney. T. Taylor. . James Fulcher Brown. H. V. Phillips. Alex. Masefield Henry A. Smith. P. H. Gibson. J. 0. Masefield. John Walker. . Fred. B. Winser. Ada Masefield. E. Adams. F. J. Jackman. Henry McMurdo. Sydney Rathbone. John C. Bascombe. Arthur Colbeck. Jas. Anderson. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Premier of New Zealand, Wellington.