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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 8 February 1883, Page 2

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| UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] Auckland, Thursday. Geo. Rhodes was drowned while bathing at Ponsonby tliis morning. DISINTERMENT OF CHINESE BODIES. Dunedin, February 7. A rather singular resurrection movement is now being carried on amongst the Chinese. It seems that the friends of all the Celestials who come to this colony from one of the Canton provinces, and who died here, have laised a fund to deport to the burial places of their ancestors the bones of the defunct. A society here has charge of the operations. They' employ resurrectionists, who are busy not only in Dunedin and throughout Otago, but over the whole colony, disinterring the natives of this particular province. In Dunedin, 38 bodies have been raised, A special .storehouse for the bodies has been .built near Dunedin, and a considerable' number now lie there awaiting shipment to China. Euch coffin improperly labelled with-the name of its inmate so that no confusion shall arise, and this has been rendered the easier as a full record Jb kept by some leading Chinese' ,of everyone of their countrymen who was Rather a quandary arose over the remains of one individualwhich had- gono. to the Professor of the Anatomy vat . .the: local Universary. However, the comforting fiction 1 that Universary 'was" a ifearian burial

plafft i tbe\ enquiring AndM' i an<J cg|!% bones were duly produced, ni whioti were accepted, Qn tjie 'word of the Profeswr aa those of the particular*/ deceased. • j" I I I:' : l'i i