THE LATE MR BOWATER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10407, 22 July 1912, Page 4

THE LATE MR BOWATER.

FUNERAL AT AN SON,

On Sunday s phenomenal number I of aid sad new residents of Sasdon ! and surrounding districts followed the remains cl' tbs lato Richard JBowatsr So the local cemetery The cortege was estimated by old Bottlers to bo the largest Sha* baa assembled to pay their last tribute to ao old and rsepaetad uftetaber of a small community. The mournful procession of vehicles, horse-assn, pedestrians, densely covered a foil halfmile r-f She route over which so many fsasei’sl followers have recently travailed ' When the hearse srrived at'tbs borial'-ground thora w»s a long watt for the arrival of the many liondreds behind. Tliph the solemn service for the desd was opened by the Rev. Fscat with the ever iotpres-' sive words “I am the' Resurrection and the Life,” and closed with the rsv. gentleman's personal eurogiams of the sterling character of tbs deceased, which touched the hearts of the surviving relatives and found a responsive echo ia ail who bad known the man who bad’.'so suddenly departed from ( thelr*midet.' Though never taking a prominent part m pobl»o or social affairs. *‘D ok” Bowater was of that Eklndly dii-poss-tion which makes " friends or all and enemies of noca. Ills brother Eoobabftas fittingly -facewellad an old member of their order at the graveside, To the widow and orphans and all those so sorely bereaved our fender sympathy ts ex* tended.