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Wairoa Harbour Board. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Wairoa, 11th June, 1906. This Board sends condolences. Chairman. Waitara Harbour Board. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. Waitara, 18th June, 1906. On behalf of the Board, I desire to convey the Board's deep regret at the loss sustained by the Government and colony by the death of the Prime Minister. G. H. Stubbs, Chairman. Westport Harbour Board. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. Westport, 11th June, 1906. Am directed to send from the Chairman, members, and staff of this Board their deepest, sincerest, and most heartfelt regret at the loss of our great statesman. His death will indeed create a great void in public life. Will you kindly convey condolence as above to his family now in Wellington. Greenland, Secretary.

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. (TO MRS. SEDDON.) Auckland St. Helen's Hospital. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Auckland, 19th June, 1906. The staff of the Auckland St. Helen's Hospital desire to express their sincere sympathy with you in your sad bereavement. Many mothers will nlburn the loss of one whose foresight has provided these hospitals for them. Tracy Inglis, Surgeon, St. Helen's Hospital. Dunedin Hospital Trustees. Dear Madam,— Dunedin, 23rd June, 1906. At a meeting of the Hospital trustees held on the 20th instant, the Chairman made feeling reference to the lamented death of your distinguished husband, and the great loss the colony has sustained. The following resolution was carried: "That the trustees place on record their extreme regret at the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and their profound sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and family in their sad bereavement." I am, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. A. Burns, Secretary. United Districts of Central Otago, Tuapeka, and Otago Charitable Aid Board. Dear Madam, — A.M.P. Buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin, 30th June, 1906. At the last meeting of the above Board a resolution was passed expressive of sympathy with yourself and the members of your family in the severe bereavement you and they have lately sustained through the death of Mr. Seddon. In conveying the feelings of the Board in this painful matter, allow me to add their sense of the public loss the colony has experienced also. Respectfully offer my own condolences. I remain, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. T. S. Graham, Secretary. Grey River Hospital Trustees. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. 18th June, 1906. The trustees of the Grey River Hospital tender yourself and family sincerest sympathy and condolence in the irreparable loss sustained by you all. You have lost a loving husband and father, the colony and Empire an eminent statesman, and all of us a sympathetic and sincere friend. May he rest in peace. M. Phillips, Secretary. Hokitika Benevolent Society. Madam,— Hokitika, 27th June, 1906. I have the honour to respectfully forward to you a copy of the following resolution passed at the last meeting of the trustees of the Hokitika Benevolent Instituiton, held in the County Council Chambers yesterday afternoon: '' That the sense of the great loss the colony, and this district in particular, has sustained through the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon be recorded in the minutes, and the heartfelt feelings of sorrow and the sincere sympathy of the trustees of this institution be conveyed to Mrs. Seddon, and through her to the other members of her family." I have, <fee, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. H. H. Halliday, Secretary.