SIR JOHN M'KENZIE'S FUNERAL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 August 1901, Page 3

SIR JOHN M'KENZIE'S FUNERAL.

(pee pbess association.)

Oahabtt, This Day.

Arrived at 6.30 the Hinemoa from Wellington. Seddon, Mills, and several members of the legislature are on board, also Hill Tevor who represents the Governor at M'Kenzie's funeral. They leave by special train at nine o'clock for Heathfield. The funeral leaves Heathfield at 1.30, and goes by road so that it will be afternoon hefore the cortege arrives at Palmerston cemetery where the interment takes place. Palmbkston Sodth, This Day. The train stopped at Shag Point station to enable the Premier and party to call at Heathfield, the residence of the late McKenzie. They availed themselves of the opportunity of taking a last look at their old comrade, who is only a shadow of his former self, showing abundant traces of the severity of his last illness.

The funeral will be carried out according to Highland Custom. The Dunedin and Invercargill Pipe Bands precede the hearse for a mile from the house and then resume a dirges when nearing Palmerston. The c rtege proceeds by road a distance of seven miles.

The members of the Ministry will carry the body from the house to the hearse and the hearse to the cemetery. The chief mourners will be John and Duncan McKenzie sons, M. P. Cameron and E. A. Atkinson, sons-in-law; Donald McKenzie, Professor McKenzie, Finlay McKenzie, brothers; D. Mcßae, Henry Urquhart, Alex Munro, brothers-in-law. The Marshals will be J. F. M. Fraser, j D. McLeod, Andrew McKerrow, James Boss.