EARLY SETTLERS

Evening Star, Issue 17919, 15 March 1922, Page 2

EARLY SETTLERS

•Mr George Calder (president) occupied the chair at the monthly meeting of the Committee ■of the Otago Early Settlers' Association, held yesterday. The-'following {lifts were received ana votes of thanks passed to the donors':— From P. (J. Georgo, lithograph of early Dunedin: from A. 11. Fisher, framed por trait of his late father, Mr T. R. Fisher. Dunedin (arrived Otago, 1861); from Napier and David-son, U.S.B. emblem early days of company; from Gcorg.v Pearce, Dunedin, chronological record. 1845 to 1860; from Mrs Annio -Bishop. Hiqhcliff. framed portrait of her late parents, Mr and Mrs T. Morris (Nourma--Il.il, 1853), also of herself and hor lato husband, John Bi.-hcp (Alhambra, 1865),, Mrs Bishop (Nourmahal, 1858); from Mrs James Callender, Mosgiel, photos of her late parents, Mr and Mrs P.. Blair (George Canning, 1B57), also of her lato husband's parents, Mr and Mrs James Callender (Philip Laing, 1843), also of herself and her lato husband, Mr Callender (Philip Laing, 1843), Mrs ■ Cnllondor (George Canning, 1857) ; from Francis Bremner, Mosjfiel,-' old horn lantern ;■■ from Alexander Crow, No. 26 scrip Dunedin Temperance Hall Company, Ltd., 1880; from Mrs J. C. Brown, framed portraits of lato Dr Halley, J. C. Brown, and herself; from. Dr Bamett, jarrah wood dice block dug out of the sand at Murdering Beach, evidently very ancient. The following deaths wore reported: Peter Barkraan, Wangairai (71), Gabriel's Guliv, 1861; David Fvfo, Timaru (84). Gabriel's Gully, 1861; I)". Eraser, Mataura (76), arrived «ixties; Miss Dora O. Bathgate, England, late Otago, Star, of Tasmania, I 860; Mrs Andrew Nicol, nee PatricK, Kaikorai (78), Philip Lain.;:, 1848; Thomas Culpan, Auckland, late Otago (68), arrived sixties; R. F. Kilto, Roxburgh, William Davie, 1366; A. B. Donald, Auckland, lato Otago, Gabriel's Gully, 1861; John M'Lachlan, Outram (86), Palmyra, 1858. The following early settlers were enrolled :—Mrs Alexander Thomson, nee While, Halfway Bush, Tamar, ' 1862; Alexander Ctow, Dumblane street, King of Italy, 1861; D. Williamson, Filield street, Melbourne, 1861; Mrs M. Doull, nee Ayson, Abbotsford, Southern Cross, 1856; Samuel Green, Taieri Beach, Airedale, 1861; J. Higgie, Milton, Crimea, 1853; Donald Munro, Balclutha, Palmyra, 1858; William Twedclie, Milton, Alpine, 1859; Mrs F. Bradfield, nee Lees, Balclutha, Pkdda, 1860; James Lees, Pladda, 1860; John Loan, St. Ki'da, Thomdeau, 1867; John Tyson, Musselburgh, Omeo, 1862; Mrs John Tyson, nee Chalmers, Mary E. Kay, 1862. Twenty-one descendants were also enI rolled.