THE MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
MESSAGE FROM SIR JOSEPB WARD. [it TKLX.GS.Am.— ! --tress ASSOCIATION*.] Wklli.vgto.v, Monday. The Acting-Premier is informed that the Oswestry Grange is leaving Sydney at'nine o'clock to-night with Mr. Seddon's body, and that she is due in M eilington on Saturday morning. The Cabinet will cany on under present arrangements with the administration of "Mr. Seddon's various portfolios by those Ministers to whom they had been'allotted prior to the Premier's departure. Mr. Hall-Jones cabled to ' Sir Joseph Ward the v. .vs if Mr. Seddon's death, and late to-n> 0 o he eceived the following reply from Lond hi : - -" The awful news of our dear old chief laving passed to'his long home conies as a stunning blow tome. His colleagues will 1 >el with the people of the colony that a . ;reat a "id good man, who worked with ui flagging zeal for the country. he> loved, jeriig taken from them removes the mos, striking figure in colonial public life. ' Th'i grief of nis dear wife ibid fvmUy will he: benpew'i n\th tiro limuw'edg* ; that the hearts o/tlH' i ■ -l- of New Zea-j Jvifo-m\\ go out to uitin m •h' ai'pri-j ■ ;edettted trial they h%\ >to ■,;.'' >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13201, 12 June 1906, Page 6
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