LAID TO REST.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 477, 26 June 1912, Page 5

LAID TO REST.

SIR J. LOGAN CAMPBELL. | I)Y TI'XKURAPII. —rUHSS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. He is now sleeping peacefully the last long Bleep on Maungakiekie's green crest, that noble watch-tower standing in the midßt of the stirring Bcenes of his hey-day. Fitting rest-ing-place for such a picturesque character. Just as in the case of nnother son of Old Scotia, Robert Louie Stevenson, it was felt that no ordinary ground, no matter how hallowed by associations, would be an adequate place of sepulture for so noblo a heart. "Under the wide and Btarry sky, dig the grave and let me lie," is jußt the epitaph one would choose for him. In life he suggested the nobility of nature, the expansivenew of wide prospects, and the grandeur of hills and in death it was fitting that we should lay him to rest on the wind Bwept mountain-top, to which we in the busy work-a-day valleyß look up. as symbolic of all we admired in his lofty character. Sir John Jjogan Campbell, "The Father of Auckland," was interred yesterday afternoon, with every mark of reßpect, and tho parental name that has been beßtowed upon him was fully justified by the sign# of almost filial affection noticeable in the crowds which lined the route and covered the erst of the hlil.