A Disgraceful Affair.
(Per Press Association.) Chbistchubch, October 7. At the City Council to-night, the Mayor made a statement with regard to the episode at the public cemetery yesterday. A body was taken for interment, but as the clergy of the Catholic Church, to which deceased belonged, have set their faces against Sunday burials, no Minister was present, and on that grounds the sexton refused to allow the body to be brought into the cemetery. The undertaker then communicated with the Mayor, who at once gave orders that the body shonld be allowed to be interred, and the burial took place without any religious ceremony being performed. The Mayor said that ho knew nothing of any misunderstanding between deceased's friends and deceased s religious denomination, and had come to the conclusion that it was absolutely necessary on sanitary grounds that the funeral should take place at once. It was explained that the sexton's action was in deference to a private regulation of the particular denomination which refused to permit the burial without a minister to officiate. The Mayor's action were endorsed. mm H—m~mm,mmmmmmmm
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 86, 8 October 1895, Page 2
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183A Disgraceful Affair. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 86, 8 October 1895, Page 2
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