The funeral of the late Dr. Richard Day took place on the 26th October, and was attended by a considerable number of the deceased gentleman's friends and acquaintances. The Rev. T. Buddie, assisted by the Rev. J. Wallis, conducted the service, the first part of which took place in the Wesleyan Church, Pitt-street, where a number of friends had assembled to participate in the last obsequies. As the coffin was borne out of the church the grand organ pealed forth the solemn strains of the "Dead March in Saul." The funeral cortege then wended its way to the last resting-place of the dead, where the remaining portion of the service was gone through. The pall-bearers were Drs. Philson, Hooper, Kennedy, Dawson, and Mr. Graves Aickin. The chief mourners were the Rev. John Hobbs, Messrs. R. and E. Hobbs, G. Jakins, E. Wilcox, J. Bloomefield, and Thomas Buddie. Amongst those present we noticed the Rev. R. Burrows, Rev. Alexander Macdonald, Captain Wing, and a number of old settlers who had known the deceased for a long period.
We regret to record in our obituary column the decease of an old and well-known colonist, Dr. Day. The deceased gentleman was one of the early settlors in the Hokianga district in 1840. From thence he removed to Auckland on the outbreak of the Heke war. For many years he filled the appointment, under the Provincial and General Governments, of public vaccinator, and bore a high reputation for skill and scientific attainments in the practice of his profession. Of late years the growing infirmities of age caused him to retire from practice and from taking an active part in the management of the public institutions of the city with which his name had been so long identified. He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning, having more than fulfilled the allotted span of three score and ten, at the residence of his friend, the Rev. John Hobbs, of whose family he had been an esteemed member for nearly half a century. -NZ Herald, 10/11/1879.
Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland.
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