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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1072, 6 August 1869, Page 2

Funerals — Serious Omission. — The Rev. J. Townsend has drawn our attention to the fact that bodies are very frequently brought to the Cemetery for interment, without the certificate required by law having been previously obtained ; and has requested U3 to publish the clauses of the Acfc bearing upon this point, which we accordingly do. They are clauses 20 and Si, as follows :— XX. Every Registrar immediately on registering any death, or as soon thereafter as ho shall be required so to do, shall without fee or reward, deliver to the person giving information, or to the undertaker, or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his hand according to the form in Schedule 0 hereto annexed, that such death has been duly registered ; and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the Minister or officiating person who shall be required to bury or perform any funeral or religious service for the burial, and if any dead body shall be buried, for which no certificate shall have been so delivered, the person who shall bury the same or perform any funeral or religious service for the burial, or who shall in any other way dispose of the body shall forthwith give notice of the facts to the Eegistrar. Provided alwaya that the Coroner or Justice of the Peace holding any inquest upon any dead body for which no certificate shall have been delivered as aforesaid, may order the body to be buried, if he shall think fit, before registration ; and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand in the form in Schedule D horeto annexed to the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral. . XXI. Every person who shall bury or perform any funeral or religious service for the burial of any dead body, or shall in any other way dispose of a dead body, for which no certificate shall have been duly made and delivered as aforesaid, either by the Begistrar, or by the Coroner, or Justice of the Peace, holding an inquest on tho body, and who shall not within two months give notice thereof to the Registrar of the district shall be liable to forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £10 for every such offence, to be recovered in a summary way. Seed Wiieat. — Mr. Weber announces that he will receive, this day, the last consignment of the season. Tenders are invited for renting the weighbridge, and for the building of a wharf on the Eastern Spit. Rifle Club. — A meeting of this club is convened for to-morrow evening, at the Settlers' Hotel. Teees, Shrubs, &c. — Mr. Lyndon will sell, on Monday next, trees, shrubs, &c, from Mr. Hay's nursery, Auckland.— See advertisement. Alleged Lunacy. — Mr. I. R. Sutton, once an industrious and intelligent nurseryman, was, on Saturday last, committed to gaol as a person of unsound mind, upon the certificate of two medical men. Earthquake. — A smart shock of earthquake was felt in Napier about \ past 2 on Wednesday morning — the sharpest felt since February 1863. We have not heard, however, of any damage having resulted. Colonial Kerosene. — A consignment of kerosene oil, manufactured by Dr. Graham, of Wollongong, N.S.W., has been received at Dunedin, and is said to be of as good quality as the imported American oil. A trial of it was highly satisfactory. A Greenstone mere, said to bo the first ever made by a white man, has just been completed by Mr. Lewisson, of Auckland, for the aged chief Patuone, of the North Shore. It took three months of constant application to finish the work. Export of Gold.— The s.s. Hero, which sailed for Sydney yesterday, took 5,580 oz. 3 dwts. and 18 grs. of Thames gold, shipped by the Bank of New Zealand, valued at £23,200. She also took one parcel of silver. The Kate will leave for Sydney to-day, and takes with her 1,000 oz. of gold. — N. Z. Herald. Novel Use for Velocipedes.— A correspondent who writes to the Church Review on matters before the public now which, though not apparently connected with ecclesiastical affairs, still may have some effect on the Church, says : — " Absurd as though it may seem at first sight, I should not wonder if the velocipede mania may have beneficial effects in process of time by saving the country and mission clergy the cost of keeping horses — now a very heavy tax on small incomes. If a mission priest or a country curate is forced to keep a pony on his small income of some £100 a year, anything that saves this expenditure is important. What now seems a folly for the vain and frivolous may become a useful means of rapid communication,'^