Volunteer Funeral.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2097, 27 July 1887, Page 2

Volunteer Funeral.

Bifle Volantsers aseemUoi under Captain OamercW riSfe and Johnston, to pay the to one of their depart#* Mr James Harris, who to a sever# Meta##* a bod cold. There were 40 and the oulydeto*tioa fw^^^Bempieteness of the proceed' lags of the Band, which was caused leader being away iron tan town, fjpliuoeral procession left tb# deceased's Me residence at about 8.80 p.as. for the Wesftyon Choroh, at tbs north end of the town, where the Eev J. Word delivered a moat impressive and appropriate funeral oration and the nsnal funeral service wsa ooodnoted with the assistance of the exeellent Wesleyan Church choir. Alter thte solemn ceremony the Volunteers, with mourners, and a number of deceased's private-- W friends, re-formed procession and proceeded back through the town towards tbs cemetery, where the concluding part of the ceremony i was conducted by the minister, and the firing i patty, oonsii-ting of 15 picked men of the I local Volunteers flad thrte volleys in the air , ' with excellent piecision. The Volunteer* 1 were then marched back to near Mr Witton'i workshop, where they weie dismissed.