MR SEDDON'S BODY COMING TO WELLINGTON.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12517, 12 June 1906, Page 10

MR SEDDON'S BODY COMING TO WELLINGTON.

AIESSAGE FROAI SIR JOSEPH WARD.

(PKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, June 11. The Act ing- Premier is informed that Air Seddon's body is on board the Os-AA-estry Grange, which is leaving Sydney at 9 o'clock to-night. The vessel Is due at Wellington on Saturday morning. Cabinet will oarry on, under present arrangements, the administration of Air S:ddon's A'arious portfolios by those Ministers to whom they had been allotted prior to the Premier's departure. Air Hall-Jones cabled to Sir Joseph Ward the news of Air Seddon's death, and late to-night lie received tho following reply from London :—"The awful ne-A-s of our dear old chief having passed to his long home conies as a -stunning bloAv to ir.e. His colleagues will feel I with tho people of the colony that a ! great and good man, who ivorked with • unflagging zeal for the country he loA-ed, being taken from them, removes tho most striking figure in colonial public life. The grief of his dear wife and family AA-ill be tempered with tho knoiv-le-dgo that the hearts of the people of Ncav Zealand Avill go out to them in the unprecedented trial they have to bear."