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Sisters of Mercy, Westport. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Westport, 16th June, 1906. Accept expressions sincere regret deepest sympathy your sad loss. Sisters of Mercy. (TO REV. MR. BEAN.) Churchpeople of Sheffield and Springfield. My dear Mr. Bean, — St. Matthew's Vicarage, 14th June, 1906. At a meeting of the churchpeople of Sheffield and Springfield, held at Annat on Tuesday last, a resolution was passed (all the persons standing) embodying a tribute of respect and reverence to the memory of the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and I was further requested, as chairman of the meeting, to convey to you and Mrs. Bean an expression of the very hearty sympathy of all present with you both in your sudden and great bereavement. Permit me to add a very sincere expression of the same feeling on my own part. I remain, &c, Rev. Mr. Bean. John H. Rogers. RELIGIOUS BODIES. (TO THE GOVERNMENT.) Diocese of Dunedin. Dear Sir,— 13th June, 1906. I should be obliged if you would communicate to Mrs. R. J. Seddon and family the following resolution which was passed by the standing committee of this diocese in reference to the death of the Right Hon. the Premier. The resolution is as follows :" On behalf of the Diocese of Dunedin the standing committee desires to express its sense of the great loss which the colony has sustained through the sudden death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and asks Mrs. Seddon to accept this expression of sincere sympathy with her and the family of the late Premier in their bereavement." Yours, &c, A. R. Fitchett, Dean, Bishop's Commissary. Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. Rev. John Golden and Congregation, Kaikoura. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Kaikoura, 19th June, 1906. Deepest sympathy from congregation and self. Regret impossible to attend obsequies. John Golden. Ministers' Association, Thames. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Thames, 12th June, 1906. Thames Ministers' Association expresses profound sympathy with bereaved family and sense of colony's great loss. Jewish Congregation, Dunedin. Sir, — Synagogue Chambers, Moray Place, Dunedin, 14th June, 1906. On behalf of the Jewish congregation I desire respectfully to convey to you and the Government of the colony their keen sense of the great loss sustained by New Zealand through the untimely death of the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.C., confidently believing that I am voicing the unanimous feeling of the Jewish community of Dunedin, to whom our late Premier had endeared himself by his impartially sympathetic attitude towards every denomination. I have, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. President. Presbyterian Office-bearers' Association, Dunedin. Sir,— Dunedin, 19th June, 1906. I am instructed by the members of the Dunedin and Suburban Presbyterian Office-bearers' Association to forward you a copy of the motion passed by them at a meeting held this evening. The President (Mr. George Reid) moved, " That the members of this association place on record the expression of their deepest regret at the heavy loss this colony has sustained by the sudden death of the late Premier, the Right Hon. Richard John Seddon; to Mrs. Seddon and her family they extend their most sincere sympathy and condolence, and pray that God may comfort, strengthen, and uphold them in their great sorrow." The motion was received by all members standing. Yours, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Wm. Barclay, Secretary.