SUNDAY FUNERALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 114, 21 March 1879, Page 2

SUNDAY FUNERALS.

Tho Dunedin Age has been requested to insert the following protest against Sunday funerals The growing custom of Sunday funerals has been carefully considered by Bever.il city and suburban ministers. They consider that Hub practico imposes an unnecessary burden on tho Boxtous, undertakers, and others; that it involves a needless demand on the ministers, unfitting them for tho evening service j and that, especially in the case of a Parade Funeral, it interrupts to a large extent the proper work of the Sunday Schools and the restful quiet suitable to the Lord's Day. They have therefore agreed to decline attending Sunday funeralg, except when sanitary reasons require f. them to do so. And they urgently request their several congregations and the public generally to assist them in carrying out this resolution.

Tho protest is signed by the Revs Archdeacon Edwards, Dr Stuart, Dr Copland, Dr Roseby, Messrs W, Johnstone, M. / Watt, J. U. Davis, Lindsay Mackie, A. J R. Fitchett, C. J. Byng, J. Ward, J. J. Lewis, J. Niven, F. J. Sot-ham, J, Grey, Lorenzo Moore, James Maxwell, and others.

A Scotch gentleman plagued by poachers procured a cork leg dressed in a stocking and shoe, and sent it through the neighboring village by the town-crier, who proclaimed that it had been found in a man-trap on tho previous night in Mr Ross' grounds, who desired to return it to the owner. There was no more poaching after that.

Ancient and Fishlike.—Some time back the play of Hamlet was being 'performed at a provincial theatre. In a scene with Polonius the crafty old courtier asks, "Do you know me, my lord 1" and the Prince responds, Excellent; you are a fishmonger." On hearing this an old woman in the pit stood up, and, shaking her fist, shouted excitedly. "Woll, and s'posin's he is—that's bettor than playacting, any day!" The natives of the "bonnie land o' cakes," say 3 the ' Lyttelton Times, 1 are generally thought to bo extremoly fond of catmeal, either in the shape of "stirabout," "porridge," or "burgoo;" but wo have it upon tho authority of a Scotchman and Presbyterian minister that oatineal is looked upon, by him at least, as "shabbystuff," At the Presbyterian Assembly, during the discussion of an overture from the Wellington Presbytery, relrtive to the granting of £SO a year towards the salary of a minister for the Fielding district, Mr Paterson pointed out that the £IOO a year granted to the minister was not sufficient to keep him. One of the rov gentlemen present expressed an opinion that £IOO was enough. "Oh, yes," replied Mr Paterson,, "he might live upon oatmeal and such shabby faro." There was a general smile, and the Assembly proceeded with the discussion.