TUNESAL OF A CAMBRIDGE LADY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 79, 15 March 1883, Page 3

TUNESAL OF A CAMBRIDGE LADY.

Hecenfly, at Cambridge, Waikatc, ithe last token of respect was paid to the j memory of Mrs Wilson, wife of Major: Wilson, - Perhaps never before in New 1 .Zealand have the remains «f any lady ! •been borne to their last resting-place with > :so much honour and regard, attended ! Iby so naumerous and representative a j foody of both races. Some friends tray- j <elled from Auckland, a hundred miles, ' -and large trambers came from ten to • itwenty miles distant to he present, j There -were .at least sixty carriages andj •over a (hundred horsemen; altoj, ether •about one thousand persons followed | ithe funeral. The service was conducted j jointly by Archdeacon Willis and the ]Rev. Wiremu Pomare am English and IMaoii, and was treverently joined in by all. Among those present were Colonel Won, Mr -John Sheehan, M.H.R, ; Dr JBuller, C.M.G.; Judge Pucket ; Te Ngakau, Chief of Kawhia— who had .come this long journey expressly, and who is related to Mrs Wilson, and is -probable the most iniiuential chief in the Waikato; Mx R. Laishley, solicitor, AucktencU Waddington, Mr Duncan, JP andmany other well-knnwneolomsts ■Te Ngahau was remarkable by his head•dress, which consisted of a profusion of ■wfik buia feathers. Iv tke Church of England, at the morning service, Archdeacon WuTis preached an appropriate sermon, referring in eloouent terms to the serious loss Cambridge and the Waikato generally had sustained, as Mrs Wilson had been foremost for years past in good works, whether of a wlieious or •benevolent character, aud well worthy of imitation. Three days last week nearly ill "the -shops were partially closed, and fl7 e8 were hoisted Wf-mast over the ££ on the day of her death Chief judge Maedonald, who presided in the Native Land Court here, paid a high tribute to the character of the deceased tadr, testifying to her important services fn the past towards the P>«*»^<* Se country. He then adjoined the Court as a mark of respect to her m«n£y -Post's Cambridge Correspondent.