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The Howff Closed

In accordance with the recent order of Council, the Hospital Master issued a notice, that on and after the 5th of November (Monday), no interments should take place in the Old Burying ground. The last interments in that Ground took place on Sabbath, when there were three- one that of Alexander Smith, weaver, aged sixty years ; second, that of Agnes Dunse or Lyall, widow of John Lyall, aged eighty-four ; and the third that of Alexander Brymer Lawrie, a child two weeks old.

 

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