CONDOLENCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 141, 15 June 1906, Page 5

CONDOLENCES.

MESSAGES FROM ALL PARTS. CABLEGRAM~FROM QUEEN ALEXANDRA. Cablegrams from all parts of the world still continue to find their way to the colony sympathising with it in its loss and with the late Premier's family in their sorrow. Tho following message was sent yeatferdny by he* Majesty the Queen to Mrs. Seddon : "Accept the deepest (sympathy in your overwhelming 6orrow, which the whole of England shares.— 'Alexandra." Yesterday Mr. Winston Churchill cabled to the Hon. W. Hall- Jones : — "Please accept) my deep sympathy with, you in yotfr deep loss, — Winston Churchill." Messages of sympathy have also been received from the New Zealand Dinner Committee, London ; Grand Lodge of Freemasons, New South Wales ; Austral Ladiea' Club, London; the Mayor of Albany ; Society for Prevention of Cruet' ly to Alnmals, South Australia; citizens of Foofecray, Victoria; Directors Waihi Goldmining Company, London; a public meeting of New Zealanders in Brisbane, Queensland ; Mrs. Muecke (nee Ada Crosßleyt Mr. J. M. Denny, M.P., of Wiliam Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton; Colonel Richard Pilkington, exM.P., St. Helens; Rev, Father Lynch, Limerick, formerly of St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin, and many others. The Wellington Trades and Labour Council has passed, a resolution of sympathy with the late Mr. Seddon's family. On tho day of tihe funeral all unions in the city are requested to fettend with their banneTs draped in mourning. The Auckland Council has requested the Wellington Council to represent it at the funeral. Tho Wellington branch of tho Navy League has sent the following communication to the Hon. W. Hall- Jones: — "The Wellington branch of the Navy League desires to place on rbcord its appreciation of tho services rendered by the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon to' tho cause of Imperial defence. His attitude thereon was statesmanlike in tho highest degree and commanded universal respect. This branch desires also to express to Mrs. Seddon and her family Its sincere sympathy with them in their Sad bereavement." Tho Federated Seamen's Union ot Now Zealand last night passed a vote of condolence and sympathy, and the meeting then adjoTirfaod a* a. mark of respect to tho late PrAmier. The board of directors •of tho Bnhk of New Zealand adopted tho following resolution— "That the board of directors of tho ißank of 'New Zealand desire- to place on ..record it* d«s» genw of th.fi TSZjnA.

loss sustained by the colony through the death of the Right Honourable K. J. Seddon, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and to record it 6 high appreciation of the eminent services rendered by him to the colony, and also of the action taken in 1894 by the Government, of which he was the head, in promoting legislation whereby assistance from the State was accorded to the Bank of New Zealand, and thus, by cpming to the rescue of the bank, averting a widespread financial disaster throughout the country. Tho board desires further to convey to Mrs. Seddon and her family its profound sympathy with them in their great sorrow.