BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(From our own Correspondent.) Lawrence. October 28, The chess match Lawrence v. Dunedin will be resumed to-night. I here is great excitement here amongst chess circles, and every confidence of winning the second game is exhibited. The weather is fine. . Auckland, October 26. A diffi ulty between ih» Catholics and the Freemas ns has again arisen over th« burial of Grattan, landlord of the Thames Hotel, who was a Catoolic and be'onged to the Masonic order. On Sunday some Masons heard that there existed among the Catholic clergy a disinclination to perform the funeral ceremony on account of the deceased’s membership among the Freemasons. A Masonic officer waited on Father M'Donald, and now states that he was led to believe that so long as the craft did not make a demonstration by appearing in regalia, they were willing to perform the rite. A final answer was not given until yesterday morning at eleven o’clock, and the priests kept putting the inquiries off till three in the afternoon, when the clergy absolutely declined to have anything to do with the obsequies. The Masons then took the matter up, and in the short time allowed them made pres arations for conducting the funeral in their own formality.
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Evening Star, Issue 3955, 28 October 1875, Page 3
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208BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 3955, 28 October 1875, Page 3
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