OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13665, 7 August 1906, Page 8

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

■vui 00 ""? 1 • m " tin £ "f the Otsgo Early settlers Association, held in the office of the DoraM T? •¥V CVe ling'1 ing ' Was aW <ai(lea by Mr A tetter was reai from Mrs Seddon acknowed a m receip of the committee's letter of S'llfly! 1 COn<loleMe ff " h Seddon Votes Of thanks were passed as follows h Mrs Mary Thomson. The Nook, Queen ftroet, for a relic iu tlio shape of a small .eadrag desk, made by Mr A. C. Stewart :abinetmaker, City road, Rosl.vn, from the *ood 01 the pulpit of the original First ulUirch, which was erected near the beach >n the site where the Standard Insurance company s buildings now stand This relic MS given to iliss Jaap (now deceased), and by her to Mrs Thomson, a.nd though liighlv prized by Mrs Thomson, yet, at the request >f (lie secretary, was, in a most unselfish 'Pint, presented (o the association, so thai Joint* on view in tlieir office, others midlife w gratified by seeing a relic charged with ■o many memories; to Mrs Charles Fvnmore smart street, for a fan, most skilfully carved rat of a piece of wood at a sawmill, Oamaru , >?l a "umber of ancient photographs mil lithographs of early Dunedin, tho first solanieal Gardens, subsequently washed away no Old Jcttv and Harbour Chambers Port palmers, Wiltshire Bay (Willshers), Blue >pur, and one litograph of a morai at. hyhyhee, taken iii 1784—altogether a- raw and 'ft'wa-blo collection; to M r Geopre "Wise {eefton, for Volume II of the Statutes of \ew Zealand, 1842-1884. by Wilfrid Batter jarnster and solicitor, Christohurch. ° ' flio Secretary reported that, in refutation if a statement made, he had had a paragraph nserted in tho Daily Times to the effect that t.. re.ics, records, etc., in the possession of ho association, whether acquired or presented rere not "stowed" away, but are 011 public lew m tho office. Stock Exchange Buildings, a notified 011 the door, and the secretary is at ill times willing to give any information *n connection therewith, being well qualified to lo so Oil account of his long residenoe. It was decided to hold the usual sprin» locial in the first week in September, a meet" ug of ladies to bo called <0 make arraii"enents for the tobies, etc. 0 It was resolved to contmrtnlate M* I rs t i AI y e f "Wilkinson. Edon street, passengers >> the John Duncan, February. 1863. on liavng celebrated their golden wedding, and to 1 , ' he '»c though in their seventieth year perity year 3 I et happiness, and prosAs there appears to be an impression i n jome quarten. that the funds collected to date •>r housing the Hoclten collection is to be ihaied with the Otago Early Settlors' Associa.ion Hie committee of that body wishes it :o l>e understood that this is not the case jlie funds being raised only for housing the ttocken collection. The Enrlv Settlers' \s wciation offered portion of their site for the wilding, which offer has, however, never been wfimtely accepted. Eleven now members were enrolled. The following deaths were recorded:-Mrs William Brown (62) and William Brown (72) « int ( ]?'f City of Dunedin', 860: Mrs Helen Robertson (71), Dunedin Hndda, 1861; Mrs Joseph Beal (30), Wai-! iouaiti Magnet, 1810; Mrs David Dunn (Flora Mercer). 63, Ifomnhapa, Simla, 1851; George M. iiordsr (74), Duncdin. Jessie Brown, IB6o* Henry Clous (87). Dunedin, Robert Hender'son, I860; Kichard Lean (84), JTorth-East Valley (late Hocks, Port Chalmers), Heather bell 1851; Mrs James Miller, Dunedin Elcctra, 18G3; Hugh M'Gregor (88), late Waikouaiti, Lady Egidia, 1861; Ccorge Brook 174), Evan's Flat, 1862; J. C. Gilchrist (76), first mayor. Oamaru. 1860. The passing away of Mrs Joseph. Beal, Waikouaiti, removes the last of the adult passengers who arrived at WaikcuoiM in the bri~ Jiagnot, 16th March, 1840. to farm for Mr John Jones. There are still five left who were children on arrival, but Mrs Peter Williams who died at Port Chalmers on December 24, lflOo. aged £9, and Mrs Beal, aged 90, survived all the other sdult passengers. ° It is specially requested that on the passing away of anyone who arrived 1 in Otago before December 31, 1864, particulars of age. year of landing, and name of ship be sent to the secretary, so that a complete list may be made out, as without such information it is found impossible to distinguish who came out a few years previous to that date, or immediately after.