FUNERAL OF TE RETIMANA TE KOROU.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 13 March 1882, Page 3

FUNERAL OF TE RETIMANA TE KOROU.

Is' response to the invitation published on Saturday a large number of white people and Maoris assembled to do honor to the remains ot tho above loyal chief. Tho procession started from tho Royal Hotel, and consisted of nearly 300 followers, male and femalo on foot, in vehicles, and on horsoback. A very large concourse accompanied it on the footpaths an p'ther side. The cortege was well marshalled by Mr Jago, assisted by a native friend of the deceased. On reaching tho Church the coffin was carried in by four Europeans, tho service being impressively conducted in Maori by tho Rev IV. E, Page, assisted by the nativo Minister of To Ore Ore. After scrvico in the Church the procession re-formed and marched to the Masterton Cemetery, where the remains wero lowered to their final resting place in tho Church of England portion of the ground, Tho two chief mourners were extremely o'd nativo women, who supported their tottering steps by clinging to the hack of the hearse. These wero followed by Ihaia Whakamairu and other well-known chiefs, while among the European followers wero Messrs Bcetham and Buchanan, M.H.R.'s, J. V. Smith, and several other leading settlers.