THE MAEREWHENUA BURIAL CASE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 151, 19 January 1872, Page 6

THE MAEREWHENUA BURIAL CASE.

( To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbohtcle.) Hitt,-—I hope tou will give the following insertion your issue of January st'i you h&ve grossly iriisre..prf.s?ente«l the circumstances connected with poor Clark's funeral —causing the police to make inquiries into tlie same, Juki also- much annoyance to all parties i-oih.viTied ; and, as 1 had the looking after the arrangements, I inny be permitted to state that a coffin was provided, and ever thing done that was nm\<wy under existing circumstances. 1 vill not yo into particulars, as' the p<»hce ; .ave taken evidence in the matter, and no doubt will expose the, man that has been guiity of such gross misrepresentation, and punish him as he richly merits.—l am, James Craig. January 12,1 72. . [We publish ourcorrespondent's letter; at the same time we cannot entertain the opinion that there has been mi,representation by us in the matter, and, if any, certainly not "gross." The facts as stated by ou* present correspondent are so utterly at variance with the statements received by us both by letter and word of moiith that we are of opinion that an inquiry was a matter of absolute necessity, of which our correspondent should be only too glad, as if his accounts be true he will. be entsrelj exculpated from the circumstances which at preseut appear to surround this most melancholy affair.— Ed M.I C ]