MRS. PERKINS' FUNERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 14, 14 December 1883, Page 3

MRS. PERKINS' FUNERAL.

Thb if bma W W Wla^l.r^ '' fc W: Perkins were conveyed, J>y -. train to-day to thefaniiiy burial ground at Poxton. 'Tli'e funeral.' cortege left her late , re^i-j j'dtitfce' 'in^r^d^ti^fj^a'iittle hefore j ttb6rf, and along the route ik. the mpurnful.procesi'iih the > places of '^illbsfed, AhH'oliiids ]draw n' down, .'with; 'other emblems/of sympathetic feeing with 1 th'e ;skd|! incident. ' ' J !AAj-gWB nurfti 'b!or''b^Ve]altive8 l .' i '.iViend^ apd '.a'ddiiajn** ahce flowed the Ipolnyeyance. C^ar-I t he i ailway, , station ' the^ coffin was 'Mhsferred !to" the (^n lt "wjiichj ah'brtl v . after wards i .startei; ' .^t .Pditonj .lie gathering of residents/ of the j.qistrice would: no dp^bt be very nuniqrous, 'a^'all'tho oid.fnend^ of the* family would -j£>Vi:l ills \l\ ='• • J •:.; \. -lO >T1«7*..-.j , ,».ft , cc anxious to .testify by,, their presence 'to tlie esteem m which,, all of' its membeis arejhem, and to tender^their, sincere syinpathv* to the relatives iiuder*. their sjad bereavement. /We undei^tftndjtjiftt! t]be; %ishop^ jyas; jto; e_ fi-j 'ducttne serv^cesj jjabr ab : ;,the grave^uMy^he 1 whole community seem to feel acutely the gloom^tbatjthe scu^qwf «^ occurrence has cause^ xhe !wi»f and <so soon cut oflf^ her, hufi band absent, and the other" u'lbtfrhfuf surroundings which will serve to .keep, in. melancholy '*fen^i&^ sbmg'itfoiMdei'able tibie' to' come, °and : m.mmtM so^e mii^i^ i; fa^eabl'e. u Hail 1 f^er'weatherjbeen..."less •inclemeTrt itris suvmise<i the J&'thering of mourners and the general puhlic to ; take part m tjhe Wboaluy" have keen very much larger/ I?he mm fell inces-| sanjly^and -about, ..the^inje jV^iejn^ ,tbe tram started a,ver^ heavy shower set m, adding to the„glaprny and mournful cli-^cf,er.p/the>..Oflcasioni. Wfcbnce ii}orejteji4e/{pA^v respectful sjjapaiJljyi-io' t .tho_e, ..whose |iejir.ts. are; fu.llipf mourning the denart^UoVjedrpneithey/ jfi^seej u,w-T ;