EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3584, 21 November 1922, Page 51

EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION.

The monthly committee meeting of the • a *L° Settlers’ Association was held in the board room on the 14th. inst., witli Mr George Calder (president) in the’chair. T.he following gifts were received 'and votes of thanks passed to the givers i From Win. Coutts, Brighton, diary of his late grandfather, Wm. Coutts (arrived Otago 1861) ; Rev. C. J. Bush-King, Mosgiel, old picture Ayr, Scotland, dated 1814; Mrs M. rempelton, Maori Ilill, framed portraits of her late parents—T. Gray (Pladda, 1860) and Mrs T. Gray (Robert Henderson, I 860); members of family, Port Molyneux, framed portrait of their late parents— Tilson lJura, 1858), Mrs 11. T'ilson (Stiuthiield.saye 1858) ; Mrs \\. Ross, Toiro, framed portrait of her late mother, Mrs Robert Sutherland Waitapeka (Clara, 1851); J. Hornby, miner’s right No. 812, also copy of M‘lndoe’s History of Otago; Mr J. Pemberton, Dunedin No. 791 (£5), Hooper's Inlet Mining (Quartz) Co., Limited, capital £SOOO, in £5 shares, December, 1872; R. Forbes, manager W. Coutts and R. Dick, directors. Mr I). Angus, Broad Bav, two framed photographs of Port Chalmers 1843, 1860. The following deaths were recorded: Mrs John Newlands, Maheno (83), Helensiee 1866; Mrs J. F. Morton, St. Kilda. late Invercargill (79), Sir Wm. Eyre, 1863; .lames Storey, Evansdale (92), arrived Ota"o 1864; Mrs Robert M‘George, Cargill street (93), arrived 60’s; Adam Tulloch (78), Westport, late Port Chalmers, Ben Nevis’. 1860 W. A. Ford, Auckland (80), arrived Dunedin 1863; James Robertson, Russell street (80), Evening Star, I£6D; Thomas Ait ken. Mosgiel (88), Strathallan, 1858; Richard Croft, Clarendon (92), arrived Dunedin 1860; Mrs Archibald Burn, St. Kilda. late Milton (78). Elizabeth Fleming, early six ties; Mrs Thomas Redpath, Waitahuna, Sir Robert. Henderson, 1860. The follpwing early settlers wore enrolled: —Robert Marshall Smith. Roxburgh (Boanerges, 1861); Jas. Coombs, Moray place (arrived Dunedin 1860) ; Mrs J. K. Waugh, nee Findlay, Stirling (Gothenburg, 1865) ; Mrs Mary Ann Dick, nee Farrant’ Roslyn (Aldinga, 1863) ; G. W. Hutchins, Balelutha (Ajmeer, 1864); Robert Ayson, Toiro (Royal Albert, 1853); Mrs Agnes Maybe w, nee Richardson, St. Kilda (Stormcloud, 1860); W. Bachop. Albany street (Andrew Jackson, 1864) ; Wm. Sim, AYarringtori (Silistria, 1861). Sixteen descendants were also enrolled.