OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 75

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association was held on Tuesday, Mr F. W. Knight (president) occupying the chair. The following gifts were received, and votes of thanks passed to the givers:— From James Wallace, Dunedin, map of early Dunedin,. 1861; Arthur Lindsay, Ravensbourne, framed portraits of his late parents, Mr and Mrs George Lindsay, Tokomairiro, Royal Albert, 1853: W D. West, Dunedin, marriage certificate of his late parents, Mr and Mrs W. N. West, New River Ferry, Southland, dated Ruapuka, September 15, 1857, sifhed by T. F. H. Wohlers, officiating minister; D. W. Robertson, Dunedin, model of spinning wheel made by his late father, J. B. Robertson, 50 years ago; Mrs J. Leishman, Dunedin, old charcoal flat iron; Miss M'George, Dunedin, photograph of Anderson’s old flourmill, Water of Leith, late ’fifties, also photographs of Jock Graham; James Samuel, Anderson's Bay, two old maps Anderson’s Bay district, 18651869; S. P. Cameron, Dunedin, jubilee booklet Lyttelton Harbour Board, 18871927; W. T. Waldron photograph early Dunedin, showing Royal Hotel, now Bank of New Zealand corner, as it was in 1860; Miss Blues, Queen street, framed portraits of her late grandparents, Mr and Mrs Robert Duthie, Dunedin, Maori 1857; W. M. Shand, Christchurch, framed portraits of his mother and his late father. Mr and Mrs James Shand, Abbotsford, West Taieri —Mr Shand, Phcebe Dunbar, 1850, Mrs Shand (nee Dunean, descendant), father George Duncan, Dunedin, Mooltan, 1849; Mrs E. H. Rutherford, Maori Hill, silhouette portraits of Mr and Mrs Charles Robertson, date 1844.

The following deaths were recorded: — James M'Kenzie, Wellington, Robert Henderson, 1858; Mrs Janet Hislop, Dunedin, late Benhar (78), Strathallan, 1858; C. R. Chapman, Dunedin (81), Blundell, 1848; Mrs AV. H. Reynolds, Dunedin (89), Amhurst, 1855; Hugh Brown, Dunedin and Lawrence (72), Ariena, 1863; Malcolm Macinnes, Makaraka (88). Gabriel’s Gully, 1861; Mrs W. Noble, Table Hill, Milton (82), Silistria, 1867; Edward’Dummegan, Invercargill, Sevilla, 1864; T. Lumsden Miller, Hokianga (81), Caribou, 1862; Mrs J. A. Johnston, Brockville (84), Pladda, 1860; David Whytock, Gore (91), Ben Lomond, 1863; Mrs Mary Sheriff. Port Charles (88), John Duncan, 1863; Esther F. Robertson,- South road, Dunedin (78), late ’sixties; Mrs F. E. Overdon (nee Agnes Duckworth), New Plymouth, late Anderson’s Bay (89), Mary, 1849; G. A. Watkins, Dunedin (95), arrived 1864; Ezekiel Laverty, Green Island (93), Sir William Eyre, 1863. The following early settlers were enrolled:—Mrs E. O. Smith (nee M’Carthy), Richmond street, South Dunedin, Aldinga, 1861; Mrs Margaret Anderson (nee Bell), Dunedin, City of Dunedin, 1862; Mrs M. Nicol (nee Tweedie). Mount tEden road, Auckland, Jura, 1858. Twelve descendants were also enrolled.