OUR CEMETERIES PLAYGROUNDS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2223, 22 June 1870, Page 2

OUR CEMETERIES PLAYGROUNDS.

To the Editor.of the Evening Star. . t ; * ' ' ? Sir, —I wish to call your .attention ttt what is truly a desecration of' what in every Christian community is qonsidered hallowed;., ground. To-day I happened to stroll up to York place, and my astonishment, and indignation were deservedly excited, when I beheld the children of the neighborhood making the cemetery a playground. " It is only a few weeks ago since some of buf prisoners were employed in repairing the fence to prevent cattle and horses from straying in to crop the grass that looks greener and sweeter than the growth in the vicinity. Poor dumb animals ! they were in blissful ignorance of the enormity of shis and unable to understand that’their iptru r< sions led to the rebuilding of the gaps'that, time and other causes had made, in the fence surrounding it. If the wanderings of fourfooted animals among tho tombs (drawn thither by the tempting herbage and easy access) provoked the just and righteous indignation of honest men, 1 do top much can be said in condemnation of parents who allow their olive branches to make such a place the eccii'e of their mirth and gambols. It bespeaks a total unapprepiation of common, decency and the respect due to, the last resting place of humanity. I trust these few remarks will induce the, parents pf.. .York place to teach their children, to revere the ailenj. homes of those who have shuffled off this mortal coil. • : '■ Yours, &e., Kevbrestxax. Dunedin, Juno 18th.