OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22903, 10 June 1936, Page 6

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

MONTHLY MEETING OF COMMITTEE Tho monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association was held yesterday afternoon. There were present: Messrs 1). J. Calder (president, in the chair), E. Webster, H. Baron, F. H. Campbell, W. H. Ferens, E. C. Hazlett, F. W. Knight, C. C. Robertson, W. J. Strong, John Wilson, and A. E. Selby. The following gifts were received and votes of thanks were passed to the donors: — ■D. M. Mawson, Milton, framed portraits of his late parents, Mr and Mrs Joseph Mawson, Port Chalmers (Mr Mawson, Dudbrook, 1803, Mrs Mawson, uee Millar, Philip Laing, 1848), also framed poriraits of his late grandparents, Mr and Mrs David Millar, Port Chalmers (Philip Laing, 1848); F. Wilson, Dunedin, framed portraits of Mr and Mrs Donald Borrie, Outran! (Agra, 1852); G. C. Proudfoot, Dunedin, a very old watch made in Loudon in 1799 (still going), also a very old snuflbox and a collection of photographs; Mi's E. B. Miller, Dunedin, two small carved wooden cups made from timber of pulpit of the original First Church of ‘Dunedin, 1848, made by John Hill, the first cabinet-maker to settle in Dunedin: Miss R. Orbell, Dunedin, an original water-colour painting by James Brown, Dunedin, dated 1852, of the first flour and saw mills in Otago, the property of Edward M'Glashau, Woodhaugh, Dunedin. (This picture was exhibited in the Kew Zealand Exhibition, Dunedin, in 18G5, by H. Orbell, Dunedin.) W. Lindsay, Dunedin, original water-colour painting dated 1887 of tire old powder hulk at Waverley; D. Maxwell, llavcusbourne, booklet of Scotch poems by John Young, dated 1862; J. B. MTvinlay, Lawrence, copy from register of the business licences, and also names of tho first GOOD miners’ rights issued in Tuapeka (August, September, and October), 1861 (original in Turnbull Library, Wellington); W. D. G. Hartley, Dunediu, memorandum of sale, Kaitangata Coal Company 140. 1, dated 1876; James Martin, Waikaremoana (per Bev. J. Currie, Presbyterian Maori Mission), a knife used for splitting shingles. Tins was brought to Otago by his father, William Martin (Challenger, 1856), and was used for splitting the shingles for the first Immigration Barracks built in Dunedin. The following deaths were recorded during the month; —Robert Loudon, Milton, 80 (Gabriel’s Gully, 1861); Miss Jessie Baird, Koslyn (arrived 1864); Robert Mason, Opoho, Dunedin, 76 (City of Hobart, 1862); William Williams, Dunedin, 81 (arrived about 1866); Alexander M'Naughton, Dunedin, 81 (Alpine, 1859); William M. Tarlton, Dunedin,- 83 (arrived 1861). The following early settler was enrolled:—James J. H. M'Lean, Ohai, Southland (Victory, 1863). The following descendants were enrolled during the month: —Mrs James M'Lean (nee Riddle), Ohai (parents, Melita, 1866); Mrs Thomas Kennedy (nee M'Lean), Dunedin (grandparents, Melita, 1866); Mrs Brown Ferguson (nee drivers), Waitati (grandparents, Cornwall. 1849); Miss M. Hill, Dunedin (grandparents, Blundell, 1848); Arthur Sutherland, Dunedin (father arrived 1868); James L. Wilson, Dunedin (grandparents, Mariner, 1859); Mrs Garth Galloway (nee Shennan), Dunedin (father, Thomas and Henry, 1857); John Main, Oamaru (father, Gabriel’s Gully, 1862).