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The Chinese resurrection party will
commences operations in the Cromwell cemetery to-day. Five Chinese ami one European are engitged in the business, anil have already disinterred a large quantity of remains in various parts of Otago. The whole number to be collected in this Province is about 220, and the completion of the work will occupy some time yet. It is being carried out by contract—the prices ranging, we believe, from £3 10s for a skeleton to £!l for a body in its most loathsome condition. From Queenstown and Arrow cemeteries Hi bodies were exhumed, six at Cardrona, and eight will be lifted here. The bodies being raised are those of Chinamen who come from the province of Canton, and the expense is being borne by their relatives at
home and in the colonics. In New Zealand alone, we are informed, no less a sum than £7OOO has been subscribed towards the object in view, some of the donations being very handsome in amount. Two brothers at Round Hill, Southland, gave £4O each, and at Bannockburn £2O a-pieee was given by a couple of wellto-do Celestial miners, while all give according to their means. When all the bodies are collected, a steamer will be chartered to convey them to the land of their birth to be interred in thoir several native villages. A waggon accompanies the party to carry the remains. The identification of the graves is managed by the relatives or friends of the deceased persons vouching for them. We hear that some 200 Chinese will come into town to-day from all the surrounding diggings to take part in a grand corroborrec" over the important occasion, Cromwell Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 6 March 1883, Page 2http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CROMARG18830306.2.6&srpos=20&e=-------10--11----0cromwell+chinese+fruit+shop--
commences operations in the Cromwell cemetery to-day. Five Chinese ami one European are engitged in the business, anil have already disinterred a large quantity of remains in various parts of Otago. The whole number to be collected in this Province is about 220, and the completion of the work will occupy some time yet. It is being carried out by contract—the prices ranging, we believe, from £3 10s for a skeleton to £!l for a body in its most loathsome condition. From Queenstown and Arrow cemeteries Hi bodies were exhumed, six at Cardrona, and eight will be lifted here. The bodies being raised are those of Chinamen who come from the province of Canton, and the expense is being borne by their relatives at
home and in the colonics. In New Zealand alone, we are informed, no less a sum than £7OOO has been subscribed towards the object in view, some of the donations being very handsome in amount. Two brothers at Round Hill, Southland, gave £4O each, and at Bannockburn £2O a-pieee was given by a couple of wellto-do Celestial miners, while all give according to their means. When all the bodies are collected, a steamer will be chartered to convey them to the land of their birth to be interred in thoir several native villages. A waggon accompanies the party to carry the remains. The identification of the graves is managed by the relatives or friends of the deceased persons vouching for them. We hear that some 200 Chinese will come into town to-day from all the surrounding diggings to take part in a grand corroborrec" over the important occasion, Cromwell Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 6 March 1883, Page 2http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CROMARG18830306.2.6&srpos=20&e=-------10--11----0cromwell+chinese+fruit+shop--