OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13386, 12 September 1905, Page 7

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

A committee meeting ot the. Otago Early Settlers' Association, held in the office of the rasooiation la3b evening, was attended by Messrs Jolm Duthie (in the chair),; Duke, Brebner, Brown, Perens, M'lndoo, Proudfoot (treasurer), and Lajigkmds (secretary). Votes of thanks were passed as follows;— To Mr Henry L. Jame3 (Jockey Club) for a quarterly-hound volume Otago Witness from October till December, ISS9, and for 26 wellbound end well-preserved half-yearly volumes of the "Witness from January, 1890, till December, 3902, a most generous gift, increasing in valuo as the years roll on; to Mr W. Farquhai Young (telegraphist) for 11 single copics o: the Witness daied April 15, ISC2, and April 18, 25,1E63, May 9, 23,30, June G, 13, 26, and July 4 and 11, ißlS—a very welcome addition to the collection of early history. No doubt there aro many loose copics of the Witness from ; 1851 and through tho sixties stiil in existence, and tho commitleo would gratefully receive the presentation of all such with a view to forming a complete scries, and would also be glad of a few copies ot the Otago Journal, published in Edinburgh in 1548,1819, and 1850, to make up the sat of eight originally published; to Mr Peter Dick (watchmaker) fcr Tho Alpine, a, newspaper published on board thai vessel, which arrived hero from Glasgow on September 9, 1859, edited by Mr ■Tnnma M'lni'oo who has just passed away, and by him.- presented to Mr Did:, a fellow pa^wngcr; an early record of events on board was the birth of a son to Mrst John Black, to be named John Alpine Crawford Cochrane Black, and one feels anxious to know if the little stranger was able to carry such t>, weight of names or was ultimately crushed by them; it would also bo interesting to know if correspondents who wrote tinder ilie names of " Renfrewshire," " Vulcan," Alexander Bcgg, " An Inhabitant of the Lower Region," and others, Ptfe still in our midst; there is also a copy oi a largely-signed protest from passengers' to the captain against tho filth prevalent on board, caused principally by pigs being allowed to rim loose on deck, and against net receiving their proper allowance of stores (v;ith regard to this court proceedings were taken after landing, and heavy fines inflicted on the captain; particulars can bo seen in

office); to Mr Wliiielaw, Dunedin, for, four views of HoMtika—river and town. ; : -Tho' Secretary reported that arrangements forth® forthcoming reuiiion were well'in hand, and that the: ladies present at-their last meeting agreed to take charge of the. tables 1 and bring baskets in the afternoon, relying on tho willing assistance of ladies who could, not; attaicl that meolirig. 'Thirteen new mtonbers' were enrolled. • : . V The following deaths wero recorded:—Thoa King-(IS), Awamoko, Robert Henderson, i860; Archibald Pagan"( 77), /Shag Valley,,, Robert Henderson, I860: Robert Heynohls'"(Cii), Dunedin), Titan, 1851; A. Balfour (63), Robert- Henderson, I860; William.Tweodie (89), Tokomairiro, Alpine, 1859 ;" : ;ilrs John II?iltoil '(75), Mosgiel|- Palmyra, 1858; Henry Clark (So), Olarksville, Blundoll, 1818; James Green (63), Waitati, Dunedin,: 1856; Mys John' Johnston (7G), Kaihiku, Royal Albert, 1853 ;' William Henry Haydon (72), Dunedin, 1862 ; Mrs David Miller (Elizabeth Sherrif, '71), Upper Catlins, Mariner, 1850; Henry John Walter, Wellington,, late Dunedin, 1862; Peter Trcoeder (74), Dimedin, ..William Jackson, IS63James M'lndon (80), Forbury road, Alpino, 1859; Mrs David Smeaton (84), Nevada, Bombay, 1862; Mrs A. J. Headland.l 74), Oamaru, Agra, 1858; William Smaill (67), Kaitangata, • Strathallan. 1858/ - .