OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

Evening Star, Issue 20483, 14 May 1930, Page 13

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

NEW GIFTS. DEATHS, AND ENROLMENTS Tho monthly committee meeting of tho Otago Early Settlers’ Association of Otago was held in the board room yesterday afternoon. Mr F. H. Knight (president) occupying the chair. The annual report and balance-sheet were read and approved. The date for the holding of the annual meeting was fixed for Tuesday, May 20, at 3.30 p.ra. 'l'he following gifts were received and votes of thanks passed to the donors:— From Alexander Whitley (Dunedin), a number of interesting miners’ rights which belong to his late father, Edward Whitley (Oscar, 1861), various districts and dates from 1856 to 1894; G. Campbell (Dunedin) and Mrs Shaw (nee Jessie Campbell), framed portraits of tlfeir late parents, Mr and Mrs James Campbell, Duke street (Victory, January, 1861); Mrs Margaret Kerr (Invercargill), framed portrait of her late husband’s parents. Mr and Mrs W. Kerr, also of her late husband, W. S. Kerr, and his father (Mariner, 1849); D. G. Mouat, very old map, Australia and New Zealand, about 1820; tt. N. Gordon, copy statistical and other information of Van Diemen’s Land, published 1833; from members of family, per Mrs Rhodes (Wanganui), framed portraits of their late parents, Mr and Mrs Alexander Ledingham (Puerua, Clutha), Mr Ledingham (Gala, I 860), Mrs Ledingham (Robert Henderson, 1865); Mrs Charles Speight, framed portrait of her iate father, Thomas Brown, Dunedin (Lady Egidia, 1861); Airs J. Main (St. David street), case of New Zealand birds which had belonged to her late father, George Dempster (Pladda, 1860); W. E. Gladstone (Dunedin), electoral roll of Otago, 1868-69; from Turnbull and Martin (per F. E. Tyson), model in case of s.s. Fifeshire. - The following deaths were reported: —Andrew Moffat Mason, Pukerau (88), arrived 1861; S. S. Myers. Dunedin (77), Lady Egidia, 1868: W. Roxburgh, Allanton (80), Aboukir, 1866; Benjamin Bagley, Auckland, late Dunedin (84), arrived 1862; Mrs B. Guise, Invercargill (82), Southern Cross, 1856; Allan Broad, late Dunedin (89), Thane of Fyfe, 1863; Mrs J. W. Milne, Leckhampton court, Caversham (96), Nelson, 1862; Mrs E. H. McDonald, Nelson, late Dunedin (88), Albion, 1865; Mrs Margaret Dawson, Reid road (82), City of Dunedin, 1862; John Calder, North-east Valley (83), Mariner, 1849; Charles S. Mann, Invercargill (86), early ’sixties; Samuel R. Dickson, Kawhia. Auckland (86), Kenbury, to Port Chalmers, ‘ 1857; Forbes M. Dawson, Invercargill, late Dunedin (79), Phoebo Dunbar, 1850; Airs E. M‘Neil, nee Hannah (67), Andrew Jackson, 1864; Airs J. Watson, nee Howie, Dunedin <9l). Black Swan, 1862; Aliss Agnes Robertson, Dunedin (70), Silistria, 1860. The following early settlers were enrolled :—James Sim, 23 Rewa street, Anderson's Bay (Strathfieldsayc, 1858)’; Airs Jessie Hannah, nee Alexander, care of C. W. Hannah, Guy’s, Ltd., Dunedin (Clutha, 1854). Twenty descendants were also enrolled.