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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 49, 11 September 1891, Page 27

Vanity Fair writes :— " The business-like precision of the report rs who described Sir. Richard Burton's funeral in the daily piper-i hardly gave those who wire not present an opportunity of realising the btraugenessand sadness of the scene. laside the church th^ sounds ol the solemn chaunts sung by the unseen choir, and the sight of Lady Burton kneeling throughout the service, a pathetic picture of prayerful sorrow, were most touchingly impressive. Outside, in tiii' burying-bround of St, Mary Magdalene, the " In paradisum," exauHitely rendered by tbe black-robed boy choristers, the faltering tones of the officiating priest as he prayed tor the " Sempiterna Requies " of the greatest wanderer of the century, the marble tomb, with its contrasting Eastern crescents aad Western crucifix, the simple bunch of f irget-me-nots laid by the loving hands of Lady Burton in tht j ceitre of the most costly wreaths which covered her husband's coffin, and, mist of all perhaps the reflection that the great traveller, sifter roaming through every known lind, was to be laid at rest in the qu.et corner of an English country churchyard, deeply touched the two or three hundred friends who had assembled to bid tarewell to tin mortal remains of Sir Richard Burton. The tomb is a faitiful representation in marble of the tent in which Sir Richard so often slept ; and it forms a very striking monument, with the whi'e crucifix over the entrance.