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HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND. His Excellency the Governor, New Zealand, to the Hon. W. Hall-Jonbs. Government House, Memorandum for the Acting-Premier. Wellington, 12th June, 1906. The Governor has received with great sorrow the Hon. W. Hall-Jones's memorandum of the 11th instant. His Excellency joins with his Ministers and the people of New Zealand in deeply mourning the loss of his principal Adviser and a great statesman of the Empire. Plunket, Governor. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA. (Telegram.) To Governor of New Zealand. 12th June, 1906. On behalf of the people of Australia, Parliament, Ministers of the Commonwealth, and myself I have to request you to convey to the people of New Zealand our profound sympathy in the loss to them, to Australia, and to the Empire occasioned by the sudden death of their Prime Minister. Our whole community has been shocked by the news of the death of one so lately our guest while devoting himself apparently with inexhaustible energy and spirit to the completion of projects having for their objects the increased welfare of the people of his country and the Commonwealth. His services to New Zealand ar« as well known here as they are valued at their high worth among the people with and for whom his life was spent. They are appreciated not only on this side of the world where his work chiefly lay, but in distant dominions where his intense patriotism and humanitarian principles, admiration for which is limited by no political boundary, have made him famous among the masterful Empire builders of our times. Taken suddenly from the midst. of important duties, his great place in your community will be impossible to fill. Yet his memory will be an example to his successors of the vast good that can be accomplished by the exercise of great ability and earnestness of purpose, animated by love for the Empire and his fellow-citizens. Northcote, Governor-General. HIS EXCELLENCY LORD NORTHCOTE. (Telegram.) 11th June, 1906. Have heard with deepest regret sad news of Mr. Seddon's death. All Australia mourns the great loss New Zealand has sustained, and offers expressions of profound sympathy with family of deceased statesman. Northcote, Governor-General. HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMIRAL, AUSTRALIAN STATION. The Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, Australian Station, to His Excellency the Governor. (Telegram.) June, 1906. Arrived Suva to-day. Please convey to your Government my sense of loss they and the colony have sustained. Request your Excellency ask them convey to Mrs. Seddon and family my great sympathy in their irreparable loss. Admiral, Commander-in-Chief. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES. (Telegram.) 11th June, 1906. Deeply sympathize with Government and people of New Zealand in the sad death of Mr. Seddon. Governor of New South Wales. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA. (Telegram.) 11th June, 1906. On behalf of the Government and myself desire to express to Your Excellency and to New Zealand our deepest sympathy in the great loss occasioned by the death of Mr. Seddon, who has been so recently amongst us. Talbot, Governor of Victoria. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Telegram.) 11th June, 1906. Extremely sorry to hear of the death at sea of your Premier, who recently visited Adelaide. Le Hunte, Governor, South Australia. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. His Excellency the Governor, South Australia, to the Premier, New South Wales. (Telegram.) June, 1906. Extremely sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, who had just left Sydney. May I ask you to convey my deep sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and family. I was away when they visited Adelaide. Le Hunte.