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Hawke's Bay County .Council. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Sydney. " Napier, 11th June, 1906. The Hawke's Bay County Council tenders its sincere sympathy with you in the great loss you have sustained. . Chairman. Horowhenua County Council. Madam,— County Office, Levin, 18th July, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of the above Council, to forward you copy of a resolution passed at their last meeting, oh the 14th instant: " That this Council desires to place on record its deep sense of the great loss sustained by the colbriythrough the untimely death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.C., LL.D., and desires to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family its heartfelt sympathy in their sad bereavement." I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. G. N. Stephenson, Chairman. Hutt County Council. Dear Madam,— Wellington, 12th June, 1906. The Chairman and members of the Hutt County Council desire to convey to you their profound sorrow and sympathy in the great loss you have so suddenly experienced by the death of your illustrious husband. My Council recognises that his loss occasions national grief, which will be both wider and deeper than any similar manifestation "in the history of the Colony of New Zealand. His attention and efforts in the interests of the colony will always be graciously remembered by my Council. Yours, &c, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. R. Bould, Chairman. Inangahua County Council. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Reefton, 14th June, 1906. At special meeting of Inangahua County Council, Chairman, members, and officers unite in offering to you and family their heartfelt sympathy in your sad bereavement. Wm. Bowater, Chairman Lake County Council. Dear Madam, — Queensstown, 25th June, 1906. I herewith enclose, by direction of the Lake County Council, a copy of the resolution passed at their meeting, held on the 20th instant, referring to the death of your late husband, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.C., Prime Minister of New Zealand. I have, &c., Mrs. R. J. Seddon, 22 Molesworth Street, Wellington. J. W. Fraser, Clerk. (Copy of Resolution passed by the Lake County Council, 20th June, 1906.) " That we, the members of the Lake County Council here assembled, desire to place on record our sense of the irreparable loss this colony has sustained by the death of the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and to express our deep sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and family in their sudden and unexpected bereavement." William Reid, Chairman. R. McDouoall, Councillor. Pahiatua County Council. Dear Mrs. Seddon, — 15th June, 1906. The Chairman and Councillors of the Pahiatua County Council desire me to convey to you f heir deepest sympathy in the great loss you have sustained in the death of Mr. Seddon. You have, however, the consolation of knowing that not only New Zealand, but the English-speaking world, mourns with you the loss of a great and good man, and while the " vacant chair " in the home must remind you that a worthy husband and father has gone to his rest, the sorrow will be mitigated by the knowledge that he has nobly done his work in the world, and that his good deeds will forever live in the hearts of the people. Yours, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. George Moore, County Clerk. Raglan County Council. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Hamilton, 12th June, 1906. Raglan County Council sympathize with you and yours in your and country's great loss. Hewett, Chairman. ' Rodney Count? Council. Dear Madam,— Warkworth, 14th July, 1906. At the last meeting of this Council the following resolution was carried: "That this Council desires to convey to Mrs. Seddon its deepest sympathy with her and her family in their great bereavement, and to express its keen regret of the loss New Zealand has sustained by the death of so able a statesman as the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon." I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Henry R. French, County Clerk.

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