AUSTRALIA'S TRIBUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13202, 13 June 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S TRIBUTE.

MESSAGE FROM LORD NORTHCOTE. [BY TELEGXtAI'ir.—PRESS ASSOCIATION".] . Wellington, Tuesday. Lord Northcote, the Governor-General of Australia, has telegraphed to Lord Plunket as follows: — "On behalf of the people of Australia, the Parliament and Ministers of the Commonwealth, and myself, I have to request you to convey to the people of New Zealand our profound sympathy in the loss to them, to Australia, and to the Empire, occasioned by the sudden death, of their Prime Minister. Our whole qommunity has been shocked by the news of the death of one so lately our guest, while devoting himself apparently with .inexhaustible energy and spirit to the completion of projects having for their object the increased welfare of the people of his country and the Commonwealth. His sendees to New Zealand are as well known : here as they are valued at their high. worth among the people with and for whom his life was spent. They are appreciated not only on this side of the world, where his work chiefly lay, but. in distant dominions where his intense patriotism and humanitarian principles, admiration for which is limited by no political boundary, have made him famous among the masterful Empire-builders of our times. Taken suddenly from the midst of important duties, his great place in your community will be impossible to fill, yet his memory will be an example to his successors of the vast good that can be accomplished by the, exercise pf. great ability and earnestness of purpose, animated by love for the Empire and his fellow citizens," „■ _