MRS SEDDON PROSTRATED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10721, 19 June 1906, Page 2

MRS SEDDON PROSTRATED.

DEEP AFFECTION SHOWN BY DECEASED'S OLD ASSOCIATES. (Special to Herald.) WELLINGTON, last, night. Many friends of Mr Seddon's family will learn with deepening sympathy and pain that Mrs Seddon is prostrated almost to the verge of a serious illness, and that other members of the family are ako stricken far more sadly than is generally known. It is painful, too, even while it evidences tne extraordinary affection which the man inspired amongst his colleagues and political associates, to note outward evidences of emotion which they cannot help but display to those who have work! Ed amongst them m session and out of session. What is true of them is true of every old-timer, many of whom are at present assembled m Wellington. One dare not speak to them almost, and it is hard to convey the absolute pathos of the position from this noint of view. One member of Parliament who paid his'last respects to "the old man" last nightj says there is no change m the features, and that he is sleeping calmly, "iust the same well-remembered friend, The body lies iv a heavy casket, with a glass lid. Floral tributes continue to pour m from everywhere, and the florists are being taxed* to their utmost to fulfil their orders. Mr Frank Andrews, the Premier's secretary, who was with him when he died, has now had the painful experience of being present at the death beds of two Premiere, for he was with Mr Ballance also when he passed away.