FUNERAL OF SERGEANT-MAJOR EMUS, AND PRIVATES WARD AND STEVENSON.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 2967, 28 January 1867, Page 6

FUNERAL OF SERGEANT-MAJOR EMUS, AND PRIVATES WARD AND STEVENSON.

It was arranged, in. order to give all the noneffectives wn*o had distinguished themselves in the last brush with the natives an opportunity of attending, that the time for interment should not take place till six o'clock on Thursday. Punctually at that hour the procession started, when the whole (or nearly so) of the civilians of Te Papa who could leave their business were congregated round the hospital to pay a last tribute of esteem to those gallant and brave men. We have often witnessed funerals, but never on any occasion have we seen such genuine feeling as wai exhibited on Thursday afternoon at their death, who died gallantly defending the right. When we consider the grief that will be disseminated through their death not only to many families and friends, but through the whole of .N ew Zealand, our pen would almost refuse its office, but that we should add our quota of respect to those dear departed and brave fellows, who, through the ruthless policy of a Government in their treatment of the natives, have met an untimely end, we cannot help doing so. The following was the order of procession :— r Firing party from the 12th Begiment. Band of 12th Regiment. Hearse with the three coffins. Captain Goldsmith. Widow and friends of deceased. Civilians. Surveyors. Non-commissioned officers and men of the 12th, and Ist Waikato Regiment. Colonel and all the officers of 12th and Ist, Waikato Regiment. The procession started off, the band playing the "Dead March in Sanl," the whole road to the Cemetery being lined with spectators in whose eyes an dfcuerver could have seen the glistening tear. When they armed there the bodies were laid in their Ust resting-place. The Venerable' • Archdeacon Brown read in a very feeling and touching manner

the ritual of the dead over the body of William Stevenson, who belonged to the Church of England. Father Hoyne then followed, and in au impressive manner read the service over the other two (who were Catholics). Three volleys having been fired over their graves, and a last look at the coffins of these unfortunate men, the assembly dispersed. — Tauranga Argus.