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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 8 January 1863, Page 3

To the Tditor of the Hawke's Jiaj/ Times

Sir,- —The undersigned wishes to know the reason why a Christian man dying in Napier Hospital should not be buried like a Christian, as I

know it to bo a fact that no minister attended the funeral, neither were any prayers read over him, but the man was lowered into the grave and the eai'tli thrown over him, without any benediction being performed over his remains. The deceased’s name was John Fairweather, ho has relations residing at the Hutt, near Wellin'*- ° 1 O ton. In the time of the great Cholera in India, at the storming of Barouche, 900 men died out of two regiments in the short space of three months, and were carred away in carts and burled in pits, still there were burial services performed over them. I had a brother who died and was buried with them. If I had but known that no minister was forthcoming, I would have procured the attendance of Mr. Tatum, who is too often ridiculed, or have read prayers over him myself. I am, Mr. Editor, Your obedient Servant, Hob eut TToliis. Napier, Jan. 7, 1863.