"Protection" with a Vengeance.
The British Medical Journal states thai inasmuch as cremation is illegal in Prance, bodies which it is desired to cremate have to be taken to Italy for the purpose, and accordingly a gentleman who died recently at Paris, left instructions in his will that his body should be oonveyed to Milan, and there cremated. This was done July 18th.. The Italian Customhouse, however, levied £14 import duty on the body when it was brought into the oountry, and the same amount as export duty on the ashes as they were carried back to France. . v ,
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1869, 6 February 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)
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