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Rangiora High School Board. Honoured Sir, — Rangiora High School Board, 15th June, 1906. Permit me, on behalf of the Rangiora High School Board, to condole with Mrs. Seddon and yourself in the irreparable affliction our colony has to bear through the demise of our well-beloved Premier, the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon. His prescience, his patriarchal sympathy, and his endeavours for .the general well-being are universally admitted ; and, as one who could see his wise and sympathetic efforts to aid the young and help the world of to-morrow while Minister of Education, I beg to forward this slight but fervent tribute to the memory of a great and good statesman. Yours, &c, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Premier, Wellington. Robert Ball, Chairman. Richmond School Committee. Sir,— Christchurch, 22nd June, 1906. At a meeting of the Richmond School Committee, held last Wednesday, the following resolution was unanimously passed, which lam directed to forward to you. The Committee will be glad if you will kindly pass same on to Mrs. Seddon : " That this Committee desires to place on record its profound regret at the untimely death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, the Premier and also Minister of Education of the colony, and its sense of the great loss the colony has thereby sustained; and expresses its deep sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and her family in their sad bereavemeut." I have, <fee, The Hon. the Premier, Wellington. J. H. Flesher, Chairman. Education Board and High Schools Board, Southland. (Telegram.) Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. Invercargill, 13th June, 1906. On behalf of the Southland Education Board and the Southland High Schools Board, I wish to express the profound sorrow and regret occasioned by the Premier's tragically sudden death. On their behalf I desire you to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family an expression of their sympathy. W. Macalister, Chairman. South School Committee. Dear Sir, — Enwood, South Invercargill, 22nd June, 1906. I am directed by the South School Committee to forward you copy of the following resolution passed at last meeting, viz. : " That this Committee desires to express its profound regret at the great loss the colony has sustained through the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand and Minister of Education, and also to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family its deepest sympathy with them in their bereavement. His statesmanlike and genial qualities have endeared his name to all classes, and his warm interest and influence in matters educational and the general yvelfare of the country will ever serve to help to keep in remembrance one of the foremost politicians of the British Empire." Yours, &c, Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. William Taylor, Secretary. St. Albans School Committee. Dear Sir, — St. Albans, June, 1906. At the ordinary meeting of the St. Albans School Committee, held last evening, I was directed to forward to you a resolution of sympathy passed to the Government in the loss of its chief, who was also the head of our Department, and a man whom we all recognised as being deeply interested in the cause of education. I was also instructed to ask you to convey to Mrs. Seddon and the members of her family the deep sorrow felt for her in her sad bereavement. I am, &c, Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. S. Faulkner, Secretary. St. Clair School Committee. Sir,— St. Clair, Dunedin, 28th June, 1906. I am instructed by the Committee of the St. Clair School, Dunedin, to forward you a copy of the following resolution, with a request that you will be kind enough to oblige the Committee by sending it on to Mrs. Seddon : " That this Committee shares in the general mourning throughout the colony over the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier and Minister of Education, and respectfully offers its true sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and her family." I have, <fee, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. Clerk. Stratford .High-school Teachers and Scholars. (Telegram.) Hall-Jones, Premier, Wellington. Stratford, 20th June, 1906. Stratford High-school teachers and scholars mourn the loss of our beloved Premier. Sole, Chairman of Committee,