The novelty of a cemetery on fire was witnessed at Creswick, Victoria, on Sunday, April 1. The Advertiser says some Chinese visited the old cemetery, situated near the Black Lead, it might be for the purpose of paying then* devotions to the ashes of one of their ancestors ; at any rate they left behind them some rich and several lighted candles, which in due course set the grass on fire, and quickly burnt some dozen or so of the guards placed around the graves. But for the timely arrival of Mr. Reed the town clerk, and a few others, who carried water to extinguish it, the whole of the guards, and the fencing as well, would have been consumed.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 80, 24 April 1877, Page 3
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119Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 80, 24 April 1877, Page 3
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