THE LATE MRS BURNS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5131, 29 July 1878, Page 2

THE LATE MRS BURNS.

In our obituary many of our readers willnotiee with regret the intimation it contains of the deutli early on the morning of the l!>th July of j Mrs Burns, relict of L>r Burns, iir>t minister of Otago. Mrs Bums was the daughter of the ! lateltev. James Francis Grant, at one time minister of Broughton place Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh, in which city she was born. Her early years were spent, however, in the rectory of a South of England parish, from which, at the age of 22, .-.he pa.-i.-ied to a Scottish manse, to take churtre or the establishment of her unch-, the llev. John Steel Otter.stone, minister of Monckt.m, Ayrshire. There she became acquainted with ]) r Buns, who was then minister of Ballantrae, in the South of Scotland. On the death of Mr Utter.stone Mr Burns was presented to the living of Monckton, where he was married, where all the members of their family were born with the exception of tho two youngest daughters. Dr Burns took part in the movement that resuited iv the Disruption of the Church o