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Birkenhead Borough Council. (Telegram.) The Premier, Wellington. Auckland, 18th June, 1906. The Birkenhead Borough Council respectfully request that you would convey to Mrs. Seddon the following resolution : " That this Council desires to express its sincere sympathy with Mrs. Seddon in her sad bereavement by the death of her husband, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and to record its sense of the great loss the colony has sustained in the demise of so eminent a statesman." A. L. White, Town Clerk. Blenheim Borough Council. (Telegram.) The Hon. C. H. Mills, Wellington. Blenheim, 13th June, 1906. Will you kindly do us the favour to convey to Mrs. Seddon at convenient and suitable opportunity the following resolution unanimously carried at Council meeting this evening: "That the Blenheim Borough Council desires to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family a sincere and respectful message of sympathetic condolence in the sorrowful bereavement they have suffered bj* the decease of a loved and honoured husband and father —our late Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon." E. H. Penny, Mayor. Mayor of Cambridge. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Cambridge, 11th June, 1906. Kindly convey my deepest sympathy Mrs. Seddon and family. National loss. W. F. Buckland, Mayor. Cambridge Borough Council. Sir, — Cambridge, 14th June, 1906. I have the honour to forward copy of resolution which was passed at meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council held last evening, viz. : '' That this Council desires to place on record its deepest sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and family on account of their recent bereavement, and is of opinion that'the death of the late Right Hon. Mr. Seddon was not only a great loss to the Colony of New Zealand, but to the whole of the British Empire." Asking you to be good enough to convey the same to Mrs. Seddon. I have, (fee, Hon. the Premier, Wellington. F. J. Brooks, Town Clerk. Municipal District of Canterbury. Sir,— 16th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of my Council, to convey to you the following resolution unanimously passed at their meeting on the 11th day of June, 1906. May I ask you to kindly transmit the same agreeable to their wish. Yours, &c, The Hon. Hall-Jones. Fred. Davis, Council Clerk. (Resolution.) " That we deeply sympathize with Mrs. Seddon and family, also with the people of New Zealand, in the great loss sustained by the death of their respected Premier, the Hon. R. Seddon.' Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of Carterton. (Telegram.) The Hon. the Acting-Premier, Wellington. Carterton, 12th June, 1906. Behalf Council and burgesses I express profound regret at death Mr. Seddon, Premier. Please convey our sincere sympathies to Mrs. Seddon and family. James Brown, Mayor. Carterton Borough Council. Bra, — Carterton, 27th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of-this Council, to opnvey to you the underwritten resolution which was passed by my Council at the ordinary meeting held last night. I have, &c, Hon. W. Harll-Jones. J. Monorieff, Jun., Town Clerk. " That this Council places on record its recognition of the loss the country has sustained in the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, the late Premier of the colony, and extends its heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and family in their sad bereavement, and that a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded to Mrs. Seddon "and the Hon. Hall-Jones."