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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 99, 27 April 1888, Page 3

The death of Miss Cecilia Nixon (aged 16), the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Nixon of this city, which took place in the beginning of this week at the hospital, is sincerely regretted by a large circle of friends in i Auckland and at Onehunga. She is another victim to typhoid. As Miss Nixon-was one of St Benedict's Church congregation and also of the Guard of Honour of the Blessed Sacrament, the Children.of Mary and the League of the Cross, Societies, a solemn requiem mass was celehrated yesterday at St. Benedicts Church at an early hour for bhe repose of bhe soul, the Very Rev. Father O'Sullivan' being celebrant,' while the Rev. Father's O'Gara and Downey were deacon and sub-deacon respectively, and Father Gillon was Master of Cereihonjes. Prayers were also offered up for her at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The members of the above Societies in their picturesque regalia attended the funeral" (which left the hospital at 10 a.m.] in somewhat large numbers and formed a p_y.'t of the cortege down Kyber Pass, bhe remainder of the friends in carriages going on to the Catholic Cemetery, Onehunga, where the Rev. Father Paul performed the'last rites at the grave. ' "" ■■ Captain Edwin advisers : —Every indication of frost to-night, and for very low tides for 24 hours' from 2 p.m. to-day. We see by advt. that Mr Chas. Evans_ is opening a cheap cash grocery and provision store'in Hobson-street, opposite W. R. Waddel's. He having purchased jys j*ocd? for cash," he intends giving Sis customers the benefit of cheap purchases.— (Adrt.)