OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 72

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association was held on Tuesday afternoon in the board room, the president (Mr W Nieolson) being in the chair. The following gifts were received and votes of thanks passed to the givers- — From Mr R Lambeth, Dunedin, oil painting of Black Sam, a well-known Dunedin character in the.early ’sixties. From mem~,er? ?,, t ie family, framed portrait oi their father, Captain Welch of Port Chalmers (aged 92), Elizabeth Pheller, 1862. ”• u- , Ferens . Dunedin, framed portrait of his late mother. Mrs Thomas Ferens nee M ost and. Westport, late Oainaru.' John Wickliffe, 1848. Mrs R. Mosgiel framed portrait of her late husband "and herself; Blundell, 1848. From members of the family, framed portrait of their late lather, R. Cumberbeach, Dunedin, late Waikouaiti, and of their late grandmother, Mrs Barnett. nee Cumberlieach Waikouaiti; Strathmore, 1856. Miss Cargill Musselburgh Rise, framed portrait of her late parents, Mr and Mrs E. B. Cargill 5 Robert and Betsey, 1857 C. F. Mitchell, Dunedin, pair of presentation bowls presented to his late father, John Mitchell, early ’sixties; a number of specimen blocks of wood cut from the first English oak tree planted by his late father at his residence, Clydehill, Mornington, in the late ’sixties, also framed sample ot the first piece of brown paper made in New Zealand, made from silver tussock grass at Otago Paper Mills. Woodhaugh, Diincdin, owned K- his late father John Mitchell, anti a number of samples oi brown paper made from New Zealand wood pulp, red pine, moki moki, hinahina, etc. From R. N. Gordon, Dunedin, two framed pictures of early Wellington From members of family, per Mrs Dutch, framed portraits of their late parents, Mr and Mrs James Peddie; Stormcloud, 1862. David Strain, Mosgiel, very old musical box, early ’sixties. W. Patrick, Dunedin, framed portraits of his late grand parents Mr and Mrs James Patrick, and of his late father, James Patrick, Anderson’s Bav: Philip Laing. 1848. The following deaths were reported: Miss J. B. H Dods. Mornington, Southern Cross, .1856; Alex. Brydie, Clark’s Flat Lawrence (88); -Stormcloud, 1860; David Lindsay, Balclutha’ (76).’ Gala. I 860; Mrs James Freeman, Abbotsford (90) Warrior Queen 1868; Mrs Thomas Riddell (89), Balclutha, Jura, 1862; Mrs Ellen C. Walker, Oamaru, Alpine, 1859; D, .Sheddan Toiro, Clutha (69),’- Aboukir, 1864; w’. Calder, East Malvern, Victoria; late of Lovell’s Flat, arrived I 860; Henry Beckingsale, Arthur street (86), Gothenburg. 1863; Mrs Murray G.- Thomson, Prince Albert road, Musselburgh (74)', City of Melbourne, 1863; Robert Matthews,. Gore (87), ship Geelong, 1862; Mrs Elizabeth Francis, Oamaru (86), arrived early ‘sixties; Mrs M. M'Donald. Dunedin (94), City of Dunedin, 1863.

The following early settlers were enB?lled:—C. R Eason, Hunt’s road, Owaka, Glencoe, 1863; William Hay Lanark, Balclutha, St. Vincent, 1865; Mr 3; J. Balneaves, Myross Bush, Invercargill, Pladda, 1860; . Mrs Margaret Kinder, nee Nelson, 10 Oban street, Roslyn, Hamilia Mitchell, 1864. Twenty-two descendants were also enrol Ic’d,