EARLY SETTLERS

Evening Star, Issue 18812, 10 December 1924, Page 4

EARLY SETTLERS

■— MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The, monthly committee meeting of Hie Dtngo Earlv Settlers’ Association was held in the board room yesterday afternoon, Mr John Hope (president) occupung the Cl Tnw following gifts were recoivei and votes of thanks passed to the o > . From R. Strong, Oamarn photogiaphs of Nenthorn (1889). J. S. Webb, Dunedin, number of old manuscript s-papers written bv his late father, J. Sykes Webb Dunodin. Miss Isabella Pullar, Waita framed portraits of her lata parents, Mr \V. Pullar (Pladdfl., I 860), Mrs Pnlhn nc-o Morris (Stralhfieldsaye 18.8); a«. of her lato grandfather, J. Moms fioldsaye, 1858). and her grandmotlier Mrs Alex. Pullar (Pladda, I 860), all of Waitali. Miss Bog?, View street, chart of Dunedin Harbor, upper and lower, by C. M. Barr, September 10, 1884; also Dunedin in the eighties, and a picture of the late George Bell, J-P- (‘ Evening Star, 1862) Mrs John Gibson, Duke street, framed portrait of her lato parents, Dr William Pimlio and Mrs Purdie, Dunedin (Mooltan, 1849). Jos. Gwyn, Tawanui, Gatlins, pit saws owned and used by his late father, and William, John, and-David Bacon at Broad Bay when they first came to Otago (Nounnahal, 1853). W. L. D. Trotter, Hillgrovo, and Alexander Trotter, Mornington, very old telescope brought to Otago by their late grandfather, Walliam Dalrymplo (Rajah, 1853); and from the honorary secretary of St. Matthew's vestry, a copy of the jubilee record, 1874-1924. Nino descendants of early settlers wore enrolled. The following deaths were reported: C. W r . Elliott, Perth, Western Australia., lato Dunedin, 79 (late ’sixties); Mrs Thomas Craig, East Taieri, 87 (Resolute, 1864); WJlliam Sihhald, England, Into Dunedin (Clntlm, 1854) ; Hon. Joseph Grimmond. Ross, Westland, 81 (City of Hobart, 1861) : Robert Fenwick, Auckland, lato of Dunedin, 76 (Challenger, 1866); Peter G. WTight, Owaka, 85 (’sixties): John Sanclilands, Balclutha, 80 (Jura, 1858): Mrs J. Leighton, Dim das street, 83 (Pladdn, 1860).