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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 5

/Lac}iaiBe hftye^not^so fviliy sni.cce^q 4« 4 «J t anticipated. fim|; *afcwimpi n Aya^ jifiade I W 'SaJtui-ffay, No#m|e,v .ffi^^fpre,^ coirimittee incly dmW 'several .municiDalr TOwfiT cprrdspbnttenfi'Says the <?ven .Mhin ,, Svhiqh* was plaßed in'tjbVpyen. ; On tne door

jbeing -»shuty*a greats ,of B'mokeilssu'ed'frbm the' dhimney, although no smell was perceptible. The undue amount/ of smoke- M. f , Toiswv tne maker, ascribed to the chimney being overcharged with coke. -It-disappeared, however, when the coke, was fairly alightObservations we're taken" every quarter of hour. The ashes, of, the first body on being removed from the oven were found to weigh) 2 kilogrammes 760 grammes, and 300 kilogrammes of fuel were consumed. A second body was cremated with similar results, the operation lasting two hours and a quarter. The combustion, wliich was complete, left ' 2 kilogrammes, 50 grammes of- perfedtly white ashes, Four hundred kilogrammes of wood were used.'— On the Bth inst. the Court of Melun, near Paris, is to sell the stoye in which Pel burned piecemeal the body of liis servant, JJliza 4 Baemer, whom, r he had murdered. ...Pql, ,who maintained his innocence, \Yas,.on cumulative circuna . etantial ' evidence,- sentenced to transpor t'ation for life.' His was the most successful .experiment of cremation recorded ia. France unsl then.