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Young Women's No-license Club, New Plymouth. Dear Sir, — New Plymouth, 15th June, 1906. The Young Women's No-license Club, at their meeting on Thursday, passed the following resolution, which I am directed to forward to you requesting you to kindly convey the same to Mrs. Seddon : " That it was with feelings of sorrow and regret that we heard of the death of our Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, and we wish to convey to yourself and family our expressions of sympathy in this your great bereavement, and trust that in this dark hour you may realise the sustaining strength of Him who alone can give true and lasting comfort." I remain, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Annie Connett, Hon. Secretary. Waiapu No-license League. Dear Sir, — Gisborne, 14th June, 1906. At the monthly meeting of the Waiapu No-license League held last evening it was unanimously resolved to adjourn for one week, in respect for the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon ; and a vote of condolence and deep sympathy for the widow and family of the deceased was also unanimously and reverently accorded. Yours, &c, The Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. James East, Hon. Secretary. Public Meeting of Temperance Workers at Auckland. Dear Sir, — St. John's Parsonage, Ponsonby, Auckland, 18th June, 1906. I have the honour to forward to Mrs. Seddon, through you, the enclosed resolution unanimously passed at a public meeting held in Auckland on Friday the 15th instant, in connection with the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance, over which I had the honour to preside. Thanking you, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Prime Minister. George, Bond, Chairman. (Resolution passed at the Temperance Meeting held in the Foresters' Hall, Auckland, 15th June, 1906.) " That this public meeting, held in connection with the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance and Convention of Temperance Workers gathered from different parts of the colony, desires to express its sense of the loss sustained by the colony in the death of its Prime Minister, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, P.C., its profound sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and family in their painful and sudden bereavement, and prays that Almighty God may comfort and sustain them in the hour of their great sorrow."

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. (TO MRS. SEDDON.) New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch. Dear Madam, — Christchurch, 14th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of the Decorative Sectional Committee of the New Zealand International Exhibition to forward to you a copy of a resolution proposed by the chairman, Mr. G. R." Hart, and seconded by Mr. T. Gapes, and carried at a meeting of that committee held on the 13th instant. The resolution reads as follows : " The Decorative Committee being the first of the sectional committees of the Exhibition to meet since the lamented death of the Premier, desires to place on record their deep sense of the irreparable loss sustained by the Exhibition by the death of its President." The Exhibition was projected by the late Premier, and he took a very lively and personal interest in all connected with it. The committee therefore ventures to express the hope that the Government of the future will so carry the Exhibition to a conclusion as to render it worthy to take a high place among the many other examples of the splended work done by the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon for the people of the Colony of New Zealand. I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. E. Righton, Secretary. Westport Executive Committee of International Exhibition. Madam,— Westport, 23rd July, 1906. I beg to inform you that at a meeting of my executive, held on the 20th instant, the following resolution was carried : " That the members of the Westport International Exhibition Executive Committee desire to put on record the very high esteem in which the late Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, was held by the people of the Buller district, and that a letter be addressed to his widow deploring the sudden death, in the zenith of his fame, of such a great and far-seeing statesman; and that the condolence and earnest sympathy of this committee be conveyed therein to Mrs. Seddon and family in their great and sad bereavement." I am, &c, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. Frank Morrison, Secretary.