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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 175, 25 July 1874, Page 4

Tbe London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes :— " The advocates of cremation are at it with redoubled force, and seem to have partially enlisted the Bishop of Manchester on their side. It seems that some oldfashioned folk bad got it in their beads that if people were burned after death (hey would not be forthcoming at the time appointed for a general resurrection. Of course the idea was childish, for if there was anything in it, what becomes of lots of the great saints and martyrs? Still, people in these oldfashioned countries do get possessed by strange,' unaccountable notions. So, the other day, the Bishop of Manchester, who is one of the most sensible men on the Bench, alluded to this whim, and said that, although he did not urge cremation, he should like to ask what difference there could be in the difficulty of raising a body which had been reduced in«o its component elements by the action of fire or by the slower process of decay ? The Ciemation Society is advertising in all the papers, inviting people to sign the following declaration : — " We, tbe undersigned, disapprove of the present custom of burying the dead, and we desire to substitute some mode which shall rapidly resolve the body into its component elements by a process which cannot offend the living and shall render the I remains perfectly innocuous Until some better method is devised, we desire to ! adopt that usually known as ere- ! mation."