EAST COAST SEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 2 August 1906, Page 3

EAST COAST SEWS.

VvAil’IHQ BiiY,

(Times Correspondent.)

July 28. The burial cf tho bodits of tho late Captain and Mrs Nicolas took place on Friday, 27,h inst., at 2,80 p.m, in the now comotcry, tho ocliius being literally covered with floral wreaths. Tho caremony was conducted by tho Rev. Blse.i- I burn, and wos a most impressive one, Thoro were many looal residents present. | Mr J. J. Fry, of G sbornp, end who was 1 for somo yea's a resident of tho Coast, 1 made all necessary arrangement! on be* half of tho family. 1 Tho Bsv. Mr Blackburn afterward? made an olcquent appeal to tho p opio cf Wuipiro to endoavor to raise funds for tho | fencing and proper cars of tho cemetery,§3 Until guito recently, Europeans aud Maoris able?, wero buried in tho old cemetery, whioh has its frontage on tho main road and in the htcrfc of the township, but latterly tho Maoris have very properly objected !o any more bodios being buried I there, with tho result that about thre-o acris near Waikawa bus now been surveyed and g z-f cd r,s a ccur.tory reserve, and vested in the Waiapu Ucuoty Couucd ua Trustees. _ 5 '.Previous to tbo Aotea disaster, oely ono

ifiteimaut hid taken place in thn uc,. c metory, and one shudders to Ih'.rk that thrra is r.u yet nothing to distinguish tho burial ground from too surrounding opm country, where stock of ‘ill kinds waadsr ut their own sweet wi 1. To iboss who have any respect for tho goad, its present appearance must appeal very strongly, and it behoves the local residents io'mako an effort to have “God’s Acre" propoily enclosed and cared for. Unfortunnt.ly local people, or perhaps I should say local Europeans, had no control over the old burial ground, and tbe g ayo3 havo been dug bcrc, there, and O'orywhore, with do rtccgoissd o.'do: of al fitment. It is to Vo hoped that with tho now ground tbis will receive cartful considoralion as far as practicable, and that in spile of tho rough nature of tho grouud, something hko order will be observed. Tbe fencing of tho ground is, however, of first iinportcnco, and it is hoped that in response to the Kov. Blflc-kuura’s appeal tho subscript'oa li-sfcj, which ace now out, v.'.1l be liberally fi led, It is understood th-.t the local body' are prepared to subs; disa tho cm: unt collected, and arc anxious that the rna’tcr should receive immediate attention.