FUERAL OF ENSIGN PUCROW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 41, 31 December 1863, Page 3

FUERAL OF ENSIGN PUCROW.

Tim obsequies of this galliiiii young soldier —the last, ~<ve heartily hope, ot' lite sanguinary monieutoj of iiangiriri—were t-oic-mnizcd with the usual military honours yesterday afternoon. The procession, accompanied by a l:ir»c concourso of the inhabitants of Auckland, movee! from the Albert Barrack Square at 4 p.m. in the following order :— Firing Party j Consisting of One Serjeant trad I Forty men. principally of the Goth regt., I In command of Lieutenant Toscland, 40th rugt. Band of 50th regt. Playing Dead March ill S'auL Til); BODY On a Gun Carriage Dravm by Six ITorsee, and Three Driver*. The Union .Tack for a Pall. The Sword and Shako of Decease*! Placed on the Cofliii. Pall Bearers: Mr. Jones, R.E. Ensign Green, lltb. regt. Lieut. Hobbß,'loth regt- Stall-Art. Surgeon o'C<3nnclL Chief Mourner!): Lieut.-Colonel Nelfon. -10th regt. Lieut. Burton, -10th regt. Dr. Dempster, Staff-Assisumt Surgeon. Royal Kngineera. , Royal Artillery. Otlioers of Auckland Volunteers and Militia.. Officers of the Army and Xavy. The Private Secretary. Clerk of Executive Council. Tho Attorney General. Major General Galloway. His Dicelltncy Governor Sit Greoi-ge Grey, K.C.B. Oil arriving at the cemetery, the body was met by tlie Rev. Mf. Kinder, Garrison Chaplain, who read the Burial Service. The waa in immediate contiguity to that of Colonel Austen. And there, in (lie brief fpace of ten iaor,l.hs, and in close contact with each otiier, repose the allies of nine of Eugi land's bravea—two the victims of heart-rending shipi wreck, the remaining seven the sacril'icco of au unprovoked aad disastrous native outbreak.—lleeaLD, t J December 28.