An ardent cremationisfc of Dunedin declares that inhumation is savagery ; that the sentiment in favour of burial rather than cremation is a remnant of the old belief that the actual corpse would live again ; that we have dropped tho old provision of pipe, battle-axe, cup, and food, etc., for the reviving dead, but retain tho sentiment in spite of knowledge of the certainty of chemical destruction.
Romancing necessarily requires much space and many sentences. ' A fact can generally be stated in few words. Here is an example : " Gas is superior to every other material as a light-giving agent, not only on account of its brilliancy and its cheapness, but because it .is safer, economises time and labour, and is more easily managed."
Honest.— good sterling value you cannot buy for money anything approaching Arthur Nathan's Teas, deny it who may, '2* and '2a 6<l per lb. One trial will convince. 3
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8669, 11 September 1891, Page 6
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