AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4728, 23 May 1894, Page 3

AROUND DUNEDIN.

i [Br Bcotch Mist.] s e Long ere this reaches you, all o Wairarapa will havo beard of the g death and burial of our vencratod ' pastor, Dr Stuart of Knox church, r On Saturday morning, tho 12th, he ;s passed peacefully away, at 7 a.m., aged 75 years. His only surviving son William, was at his death bed !e in conjunction with Dr. Coughtncy is his medical advisor and his faithful t. housekeeper, Miss Laing. On the s following Monday morning hiH body d was laid in stato in Knox Church a until the funeral on Wednesday and h needless to state it was visited by n some thousands during that period is who wißhcrt to tako a last farewel! it of the face of the Grand Old Mar who has been such a prominent s. figure in Otago for so many years, )• Knox Church was draped in blacl b, the gallery and organ top was coverec ir with tokens of mourning and in th( te centre of tho church the coffii 1- (which was a very handsome one ol ir black and gold) was placed, Onlj C, the face of Dr Stuart was exposec a tq view and that was covered wit! n glass. Wreaths innumerable wen )f sent from all sects and Bocietioi 111 The coffin ivas heaped with them oi to every side, and the pews were full o r- them,. A service was held inthi in Church for one hour before ; thi s,

i divines addressed the congregation i assembled, At the close of the • service the Church boll tolled whilst ; the procession was leaving, The hearso was decked with flowers, and some of the wreaths were placed ; around tho plumos on top of the hearse. Next camo the late Doctor's buggy, which he had used for a nuinbor of years, driven by his coachman, A suporb wbito cross was placed in the seat the Doctor used to occupy, with as many baskets of flowers as the buggy would hold. Several hundreds of children and adults carried wreaths also, About 2500 also were walking, and I counted 73 carriages and vehicles also well filled, The Mayor, having proclaimed a half holiday, everyone who could pay the last tribute at tho grave did so by attending. It was, taken as a whole, a most pathetic aud 6olomn function, and yet withal beautiful, For it might be said to have been a flower funeral, so lovely it was. I hear that arrangements have been mado for the next six months for the best preachers from Australia to tako the pulpit in Knox Church, At the end of that time whichever gentleman tho congregation prefer will receive a call, As tho living is worth between £7OO and £BOO a year there will be many glad to take it I expect. Our energetic Mayor has been worrying into tho public abattoirs question aud after entertaining his Committee with voluminous reports on the unsatisfactory state of the presont slaughter yards, now sheets his arguments home by bnying sheep plucks and livers and having them oxamined by our well-known analyist—Professor Black. The Professor states that the plncks brought him by Mr Fish were all diseased, hags of hydatids and water cysts being found throughout. In somo cases the dog tape worm germs were found in the livers. Naturally the conclusions arrivod at is that this public abattoir question must be gone into, so that proper inspectors of meat may ho appointed, and that vory soon, I hope, before we are all consumed by microbes, A very sad accident took place last Saturday night. It seems a mau named Hounston wasreturninghome home by train at half-past nine p.m., and as the car was coming over the Leith Bridgo, where there is a slight curve ho managed to fall off. He threw out his hands to protect himself and tho vrbeels over his arms, When taken to the hospital it was found necessary to take off both his hands. He is, however, progressing favourably but being a married man with three children, his case soems vory hard, having no hands now to work with. We have been having very heavy frosts the last week or so and as is usual, gloriously sunshiny days follow the frosty mornings and the weather is most seasonable. Hero, in Dunedin, we get so much of that thick rainy weather that we hail frosty mornings with delight. Tho fortnightly winter entertainments are in full swing. I attended on Monday evening last a most interesting lecture on St. Dmistan, given by the Rev. J. P. Pallowes, theological tutor of Selwyn Collcgo. Our Chrysantheum Show last Friday, was well worth visiting. It seems wonderful the size some of these flowers can be grown, It was fairly woll patronisod, We have lost our only Homeopathic doctor, Dr, Lamb. Our loss will bo your gain, for lie has, I hear, bought a practice in Petone, where bis family intend joining him at the end of this month. He is an allopathist as well as homreopathist, so I expect he will treat his patients according aB they wish. Having been personally attended by this gentleman, I can vouch for his skill, and as a children's doctor he has few equals. I hope he will be appreciated by Petoneites, Mr G, M, Marshall, the homeopathic chemist, has cabled Home for another doctor to take Dr Lamb's place here. It strikes me there are too many doctors as it is, somo of them can't make two ends meet, and one and all complain that there is very little illness about town and nothing to do—very good for us hut not for them!