FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 118, 4 October 1912, Page 5

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT,

MEN WHO HAVE MADE NEW PLYMOUTH. The collection of records of our easlj settlers, which is being gathered'by tb« Carnegie Institute Committee, has been enriched by a number of papers relating to the life of the lato Archdeacon Qovett, which have been presented by Mr. C. W. Go vett. Most interesting on account of the old associations recalled by the names of the signatories,-is the Address which was presented to the late Archdeacon in February 1857 o» liis leaving for England, "hoping that on hi* return he would find the seed sown during the previous nine years 'had not been in vain.' Ae an {historical reoord of the early founders of our town it is of the utmost value. The time-worn parchment discloses the signatures of many, long since passed away, whose names will go down to posterity as "good mem end true" in tlw deepest sense of the term. As in the case of other records being collected by the committee, this document will, when our museum arrives, be placed on public view, and it should by this means serve as a lasting memorial of our pioneer fathers, and as a permanent incentive to the present and future generations to serve their town and country equally as faithfully and usefully, even though not in the ttume connections. For we cannot reihabitate Taranaki as in days of yore, and we cannot—not that wo have the desire— -resurrect,all th« countless hardships, trials, and dangers which many of those of whom we speak experienced. Plenty of work, though of a different nature, which calk fpr ' pluck, determination, resourcefulness, and all that is noblest in man remains to be done ere the millenium is ushered in, so that the lesson taught by out forebearers may not be in vain. Some of those who subscribed to the address have not yet passed the "Great Divide," but the majority have one by one crossed into the realm of "the other living, called the Dead." The names, taken i* the order ae they appear in the address, nre as follow:—Richard Kingdon, * C. Hetlev, William Gnuy, H. Y. King, William Novtheroft, J.*T. Lloyd L. Lash, Charles Harrison, llenrv Llovd, G. Youivor. John L. Newman, Thomas Standis'l, George Curtis, 0. Carringtoii, William Lakeman, 0. Tlatton Gardener. J. W. New!awl. C. W. Foot*', Alexander Colson, Edwin Harris. Thomas H. C. Harris, Thomas Milnor, John Brooking. H. Jlamnierton, W. ' Ed war. I Dorset. P. F. Ito-k ; ti, J"i<s Terns. Joe Ward, W. Le<vh. J'.-ia. Whiter, Samuel Newell. J. Watson, Jaws Ward J B. White, John OiiricK, E. ; Hud'ipp. Henry Shutfcleworth, William VYatkins.' Robert Purvis, Join Knigl.l, 1 -Mexai.dei King, Jas. II -rhort Jlonio. Charles C. Desveux, James Beyn l Januf Pilford Knm-f,. Robert dollop, Wm Kelly, W. N. Collins, Thomas Oiip- . i p.i dall, 0. Hamblyn, Jvnr. J. W. I'icV ! ardson, Arthur Hoskin, Robert M. Sun-' I ley, Charles Sampson, William Milner, [ George Fuller, Charles Everett, J. 8.. Duncan, Charles Waller, Thomas Hiret, James Wills, Robert Hughes, C. A. C. Beardsworth, S. P. King, Edmund Kent, Henry I. Honeyfield, Fred C. Norris, John Cash Neild, G. W. Woon, Joeiah Flight, James Ritchie, J. Wilson, Thomas Tmcy Latimer, Wm. George, Richardf Ohilmaai, George S. George, Edwin S. George, Wright B. King, H. S. McKellaT, Thomas Mungeam, Jonathan Pearse, Edwin Pearen, William Honeyfield, Thomas Mace, John Girley, Joseph Colesby, Thomas Wilkinson, Thomas, pilbert, George Bayley, M.A. James Shaw, F. SI. Gledhill, AV. Bayly, Edward S. Humphries, Jno. Weston, W. Weston, W. G. Wood, S. W. Black, Stephen Foremam, Rev. Samuel Ironside, M. Hooker, E. J. Shaw, Rev. Joseph Long, John Perry, Brigadier-Major G, T. Murray (85th Regiment), Thomas Smith, Joseph I Henry, Rev. John Whiteley (Wrsleyan Missionary). C. Homever, Edward C. Pratt, E. Weston, William Paynter, E. A. Adams, James Hirst. Robert Greenwood, J. Stephenson Smith, John Blackett, IT. Ardern, T. Skinner. William Colli na, John Lye, George E. Duncan, R. Langman, P. Finlay, AVilliam King, X. Cutfield, Thoimirt Heale, Richard Heale, John Crocker. Alfred AV. East, M.H.R., ,H. A. Atkinson, Rev. Horatio Groube, AV. C.irringtan. Seveial signatures were undecipherable and are perforce omitted.

It is to be hoped that other residents who are irt the possession of records of the town and its first inhabitants will also come forward in the same manner aa Mr. Govett.