TATARAIMAKA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12970, 25 September 1905, Page 8

TATARAIMAKA.

(From Our- Own Correstpon)deoit.)

A lecture was given in the Wesleyan Church here recently by the Rev. H. Foston, entitled "Beautiful Pelorus," or six years pioneering in the Havelock and Pelorus districts. There was a good attendance and -the lecture was very interesting, being illustrated by a large number of viewsi depicting ihe beautiful scenery \ which abounds in those districts.

Previous to Mr Foston's appointment to this circuit he was stationed at Havelock, and there he was well acquainted with a number of people who were settlers in . -this district many years ago. The Messrs Climo, ■ Pope, and Gibbons, with their large families, were respected residents here away back in the fifties. Mr James Climo came to the colonies in the William Bryan, and landed in New Plymouth on the 30th March, 1840, and was engaged in farming pursuits in this district until the war broke out. He was present at the battle of Waireka, where lie was wounded. He afterwards went to Nelson, and is now living at Havelock. Mr Climo's oldest daughter (Lizzie), who was the first white girl born in Taranaki, was married here to Mr< George Pope, nearly fifty years ago. Another of his daughters, who was a little child at tho time, had the misfortune to get lost in the high fern and tutu with which the face of the country was then covered, and notwithstanding the fact that the neighbours} round instituted a diligent search, and kept it up through the night, it was not until the following day J that the little wanderer was restored /to her parents. This incident, will be re? iTjenrbored by the boys of those days < who are boys no longer) and all old settlers. This young lady was, later on, married to Mr Frank Pope, who v.as a little boy at that timu, residing -vith his parents, and who^is now liviau at Have Jock, engaged in the sawmillincr lousiness. Mr Walter Gibbons, a's a young man, was well known here, and with! his parents used to live near where Mr T. Morris now live.s. He married a Miss Pope, and is now living in the Havelock district. Mr Gibbons, ' senr., in the earl} 7 days, wa's the local farm man-

atjer for the late Captain •W. C. King, who was killed in the wartime, at Woodleigh, ' near New Plymouth.

A well attendedi progressive i euchre j>arty was held in** the school on Tuesday night for the purpose of raising funds to purchase a portable < # opppr for the district, to be used at picnics, socials, etc. First and. second prizes were given, and: the > winners were :>— Gentlemen, Messrs T. George, jnr., 1, and J. Duggan 2 ; ladies, 3fiss Jury ], and Miss Watson 2. A/ dance followed, and was well patron-i-«ecl. Mr F7 Jury made a capable M.'C, aud Mr Joe Wilson supplied the music.