OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3992, 16 September 1930, Page 70

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS.

MONTHLY MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association was held on Tuesday afternoon, Mr J. J. Mallard (president) occupying thq chair. The following gifts were received an 4 votes of thanks passed to the donors:—: From Mrs D. Todd, Roslvn, copy of Otago Witness, 25/12/58; * Mrs J. W, Hunter, Hawthorne avenue, framed pon traits of her late parents, Sir and Mri} William Elder, Dunedin (Mr Elder, 1864; Mrs Elder, nee Roberts, Pirate. 1859) ; John Pullar, Waitati, frame 4 certificate, Dunedin Exhibition, 1865; Andrew Wilson, for pony; G. C. Thom; son, Dunedin, George Street School jubL lee booklet, 1880-1930, also photo early Dunedin about 1858, photo George street north, showing mill flume crossing the street, photo of Lady Grey, wife of Sir George Grey, and a number of other iiu teresting papers; G. A. Davies, Dunedin, photo of old Post Office, Dunedin, Liven pool street frontage; Otago Club, framed photo group of Presbyterian ministers and elders who attended the first conference held in Dunedin, 1861; thq Misses Brooks, Dunedin, photo of their mother, Mrs T. Brooks, nee Isabella John, stone, Milton, Pekin, 1849, also photo frame made from a piece of the ship Pekin, which was wrecked; Miss Black, Geraldine, George 111 penny, 1806; George Simpson, sen., large photo Knox Church and old manse; Miss M’Vicar, Dunedin, Gazeteer of Scotland, two volumes, and other interesting articles; E. Webster and Miss Webster, Dunedin, framed portraits of their late parents, Dr and Mrs G. M. Webster, Dunedin, late Balruddery station, Oamaru, General Wyndham, 1865. The following deaths were reported: —Mrs Charlotte Williamson, Invercar. gill (88), Robert Henderson, 1864; Mrs E. Baron, Pacific street (85), arrived 1864; John Leishman, Kaikorai (87), Pladda, 1862; Charles Mills, Milton (89), City of Dunedin, 1862; Archibald M’Bride, Oamaru, late Berwick (94), Jura, 1862; William Rouse, Port Chalmers (87), Parisian, 1863; Mrs Robert Robson, Dunedin, late Lovell’s Flat (79), Alpine, 1859; A. A. Finch, Dunedin (74), Mariner, 1859; Mrs R. C. Bryant, nee Lyon, Lake Wakatipu (91), arrived 1861; Mrs Rachel Christie, Roslyn, Cheviot, 1862; George Cozens, Parnell, Auckland, at Gabriel’s Gully, 1861; John Jenkin, Lake Wakatipu (96), early .’sixties; — Jeffries, West Coast (88), in Otago, 1867; G. L. Sise, Dunedin (91), Pacific, 1863; Mrs G. M’Beath, Caversham Rise (74), Strathallan, 1858; Mrs Margaret Howison, New South Wales, late Dunedin (86), 1863; John A. Anderson, Dunedin, late Port Chalmers (S 3 ’sixties; Mrs John Ewing, Roslyn, late Roxburgh, early ’sixties; Mrs Jane Matheson, Dunedin, late Stafford street (81), Palmyra, 1858. The following early settlers were enrolled:—Mrs Wilhelmina S. Elliott, neo Bain, 5 Norfolk street, St. Clair, Gloucester, 1858; John M'Natty, 50 Cranley street, Tainui, Sevilla to Bluff, 1864; Mrs W. R. Berry, nee C. L. Gqprge, 55 Ings avenue, St. Clair, Omeo, 1862; Robert Aitken, Ross Home, Dunedin, Scotia to Bluff, 1864. Twelve descendants were also enrolled.