PAINFUL INCIDENT AT A FUNERAL
" ■ r Monday. At the City Council to-night the Mayor mad® ■ h statement with, . regard to an episode at the puhl’c cemetery yesterday... A body was taken for interment but,.;as the clergy of tlie; Catholic Church to which the deceased belonged have set their faces against Sunday burials, no minister was present, and on that ground the sexton :ref used to illow the body 0 be brought' into the cemetery. The undertaker than communicated' with the Mayor, who at once gave orders i hat the body should be al owe! to bo. interred* and the burial took place without any religious ooremony being performed, v The Mayor said .that he knejv nothing of any. misunderstand ng between the | deceased’s friends and the deceased’s , religious deuorni' aim, an Iliad ouno to the conclusion thn * it was absolutely necessary, bn sanitary “grounds, that the funeral sheuld take plane at once. It was explained that he sexton’s action w .is in deference to the private Regulation of portion 1 ar d >• ominations which refused to permit a uvial withmt'a minister to officiate. T e Mayor’s ig’tibn was endorsed. ,
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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1777, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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189PAINFUL INCIDENT AT A FUNERAL Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1777, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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