Correspondence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 331, 18 February 1874, Page 3

Correspondence.

THE LAWRENCE CEMETERIES.

{To the Editor.)

Sib, — I should like to be informed who has the control or management of the two cemeteries, as they are assuming both a disgraceful and heartrending appearance. They have literally become grazing paddocks, and to my knowledge have been -used as such by some unprincipled individuals all this summer. 1 On Saturday morning last I had occasion to be in the neighborhood of the new cemetery, and there noticed an old grey horse grazing. On mentioning the matter to a friend, he said that waß nothing, the old burial ground was used regularly for , grazing horses, and those who haid the charge of it and were paid for so doing only winked at it. Now, sir, having one that was dear to me 'lying in the cemetery, I say that such a state of things in an incorporated town like Lawrence, with its Mayor, Councillors, and Nuisance Inspector, is disgraceful in the extreme. If a stop is not put to this unseemly and disreputable state of things, I think the public should iise iv a body and demand the resignation of men calling themselves trustees who are so openly and wantonly betraying their sacred trust. I am also vexed, sir, to think that within a stone's throw of the main business street the old cemetery should be so desecrated. Seldom a day passes but some horse or other may be seen using the railings round one or other of the graves as clawing posts. The fences, so far as I could observe, are good, so it is evident these horses are not stray oneß, but are purposely placed within the cemetery. What I want to know is whether they are placed there by the consent of the Cemetery Trustees in the one case, or the Corporation "in the other. If they are, then the parties in authority cannot be too strongly condemned ; and 'if they are not, then the matter iB evidently winked at by th«m, as it is impossible

it can be unknown to them. If the parties who a/c .using the cemeteries are really in want of a paddock and unable to pay for their horse feed, I would much rather subscribe my mite towards providing them with a paddock than' have such Sacrilege committed in G-bd's acre. — I am, &c., Humasity.