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Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 6

A P.A. message announces the death of Mr Charles B. Stone, who was the first white child born in Auckland. The palice have been advised from' Palmerston that Henry Lunham, 84 years of ago, laborer, committed suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat. •• When the troopship Friedrichsruh was some distance away from the Australian coast the food displeased the soldiers (says the Sydney ' Sun/)), and a mock funeral , ceremony wis conducted over a dead rabbit, which,_ draped in a Union Jack, was borne before a crowd of mourners' who tied handkerchiefs around their noses as a mark of grief. With a band playing the ' Dead March' and the mourners waib ing songs of anguish, the procession marched into the first ealoon. There they were stopped by the adjutant. But the ceremony proceeded. The body of the dead bunny was consigned to the deep, the Diggers chanting: Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, i The Diggers won't eat you, so the fishes must! Flop went poor bunny into the water.