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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4783, 26 July 1894, Page 2

Tim Evening I'o'l describes the recent transit of the body of a wmun to this town in a box. The woman referred to is evidently the lato Mrs Collins, one of tlio oldest settlers in New Zealand, ami a" lady, who, for forty years past, has held a- high social position in Masterton, Wellington and Nelson, We learn that the coffin which enclosed tlie romains of the late Mrs Collins, was packed in an outer box at Nelson, ftud that an old friend of tlio deceased lady travelled with the case from Nelson to Masterton. We trust tlio remains of a lady, who, for twenty, years, lived in this neighbourhood, and -was regarded with universal respect, have been treated with all due respect, and though there appears to have baen some misconception on the part of the railway authorities, it hardly justifies tlio highly-coloured narrative of our Wellington contemporary.