EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19659, 10 December 1925, Page 13

EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Burly Setters’ Association was held yesterday, the president (Mr W. Nioolson) in the chair. The following gifts were received and Totes of thanks passed to the donors: —From. Burton and Paterson, Dunedin agreement to lease, Captain W. Cargill to William Simpsou, section in Walker street, Jane 8, 1818; from Wm. Bell, Waihola, book illustrating London Exhibition, 1851; Sirs Geo. Thomson, Highgate, wooden seat formerly used in horse tram*, Dunedin, 18TS; the MTjeod family, Islay Downs, framed portrait of their parents, Mr and Mrs Peter M'Leod, Islay Downs, Palmerston South (Mr sixties, Mrs M'Leod, nee Muir, Cornwall, 1818); Mrs J. Sandilands, Balclut-ha, framed portraits of the iate Mr and Mrs Jas. Dallas, Te Houka, Clutha, Juxa, 1858;, Mr and Mrs Thomas Sanddands, Warepa, Clutha, Jura, 1858, also framed specimen of sampler work (very old); W. N. Biaikie, Otautau, letter and plan in connection with New Zealand Exhibition, Dunedin, 1865, toe letter signed by Alfred Bedes, lion. soc*asary, addressed to James Milner, Esq., da«ad February 21, ; 1861; W. A. Thomson, Halfway Bush, nam- \ her of photographs and other articles of in- ' terest; Mrs B. B. Coaston (per Mr A. Wood), i number of interesting reports on various matters connected with early Dunedin. The following deaths were reported:—Noel Dee Buchanan, Nelson, late Dunedin (78), arrived fifties; John Hose, Waitahuna (80), .Schloswic Bride, 1868; D. L. Adamson, Dunedin, Helcnslee, 1863; Mrs Margaret Addison, Tapanui (90), Sevilla, 1859; Thomas - Borrow, George street (76), George Canning, 1857; Andrew Miller, Durham street (75), Alpine, 1869; Peter Firie, London, late Dunedin (79), Dunedin, sixties; T. W. Tymons, Christchurch, late Dunedin (84), 1860; Mrs Elizabeth Brown, Gore (SI), arrived sixties; Miss Marion Hunter Macandrcw, Wellington, late Dunedin (73), Titan, 1861; Henry M. West, North-East Talley (84), arrived 1868; H. T. Wheeler, Dunedin (64), Omeo, 1860; Wm. Aitken, Castle street (70), Strathallan, 1858; William Crawley, Havensboume (85), Jessie B, 1861; A. M’Master, Hyde street (78), 1862; Mrs David Auldj Bsyfie'd, Anderson’s riay (OS), Lady Egidta, 1861; IDs James Redd ill, Tapanui, arrived 1864 ; A. R. Hisiop, Wellington, late Dun. edm (70), arrived 1865; Mrs Peter Thomson, “The Nook,” Queen street (91), Ben Lomond, 1862; Mrs Alex. Bathgate, Glen avenue, Mornington, early sixties. 'Hie following early settlers were enrolled: —Henry Allan, New borough, Oamarn, Lady Egidia, I 860; Mrs Thomas Todd, nee Wright, Belgravia, private bag, Invercargill, Caribou, 1865.

Fourteen descendants -were also enrolled,