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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Superintendents Of Otago

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Superintendents Of Otago.

The establishment of constitutional government under the provincial system in 1853 was welcomed even more eagerly in Otago than in any other quarter of the colony. From the outset, there had been a tendency to set the central authorites in opposition to the church settlements of Canterbury and Otago; and the special character of these settlements rendered them anxious to preserve their own identity and to work out their own future without any to work out their own future without any superfluous interference. Moreover, the promoters of the Otago settlement had to face the criticism and opposition of a band of malcontents—known to the journalism of the day as the Little Enemy—who desired to obliterate, as far as might be, the most distinctive characteristics of the original plan of colonisation. They objected to the strong Presbyterian element which pervaded the youthful colony, to the social and official dignity of the leaders of the colonists, and to the restrictions of land speculation by which the founders had tried to safeguard their interests. Dr. Hocken describe them as “a small but obstructive body of gentlemen, mostly of standing and intelligence—English and Episcopalian; they were viewed as intruders, and reciprocated by seeing in the special scheme of the settlement and its leaders, all that was narrow and intolerant.” When the settlers first petitioned for an elective local council, the “Little Enemy” endeavoured, through the newly-formed Otago Settlers' Association, to thwart this move; and succeeded in rousing a great deal of bitterness and ill-feeling. The “Otago Witness” played a valiant part in the controversy. When the New Zealand Land Company was finally defunct, the unsatisfactory nature of the nominee system of centralised government became apparent even to the British House of Commons. At last, in 1852, the long looked for boon was granted, and the colonists applied themselves with grateful enthusiasm to the important task of choosing their first Superintendent and their first Provincial Council.

As was fitting, Captain Cargill was elected unopposed to the post of Superintendent, and held that office for six years and a half in all, till the beginuing of 1860. The first Council was elected almost solely with reference to the vexed land question, and it resulted in the complete discomfiture of the “Little Enemy” and the triumph of the founders of the settlement. The opposition had made a determined attempt to assert themselves by endeavouring to enrol the Maoris, whose eighty votes would have made a serious difference in a roll of considerably less than 400. However, these efforts were all in vain; and the elections to the House of Representatives were a further proof that the original settlers still maintained a strong hold upon the community. To the House of Representatives Mr James Macandrew was elected for the town; and for the country, Mr. John Cargill, son of the Superintendent, and Mr. W. H. Cutten, his son-in-law. As members of the Provincial Council the town constituency chose Messrs W. H. Cutten, James Adam and Alexander Rennie; while the country members were, in order of election, J. H. Harris, James Macandrew, W. H. Reynolds, J. Gillies, A. Anderson, and E. McGlashan. Of those elected, Mr. Harris was afterwards Superintendent of the Province, a district judge, and member of the Legislative Council. Mr. Adam, the precentor of First Church, was for many years a member of the Otago Land Board. Mr. Gillies, who died in 1871, was Resident Magistrate, and the father of the late Mr. Justice Gillies, of Auckland.

The business of the first Council was chiefly concerned with the land question, and the advisability of reducing or maintaining the original price. The matter was complicated by the fact that the Central Government claimed to exercise full power over the land, to the exclusion of the provincial legislature; and the difficulty as to the control of land was not settled till the passing of the Land Sales and Leases Ordinance of 1856. Public business was further hindered by the feud that arose between two of the members sent up to Welling. ton—Mr. Macandrew and Mr. W. H. Cutten. However, the first Council did good work by passing an Education Ordinance and establishing a rudimentary public works system.

In 1855 the number of members of the Provincial Council was increased from nine to nineteen. Messrs Gillies and McGlashan did not offer themselves for re-election, but with these exceptions the old memebrs were chosen. The new members were James Kilgour, William Martin, Peter Proudfoot (afterwards chief surveyor and Crown Lands Commissioner), G. Hepburn (one of the first elders of Knox Church), W. Smith, E. Lee, A. J. Burns (son of the Rev. Dr. Burns), J. Cargill (son of the Superintendent), W. H. Mansford (subsequently Registrar of Otago University), J. Shaw, and Dr. Williams (Provincial Surgeon).

The development of internal communication and the opening of the country occupied most of the energies of the second Provincial Council, which met for its eighth and last session in 1859. The Superintendent, now well stricken in years, indicated that he would not seek re-election, and the elections of January, 1860, caused little interest and excitement. Mr. James Macandrew was Captain Cargill's natural successor, and he laid down a very enterprising, not to say extravagant, scheme of public works for his term of office. In the new Council, Dunedin city was represented by Messrs T. Dick (later Superintendent), J. Kilgour, T. B. Gillies, W. H. Cutten, W. H. Reynolds; the Western district by J. McGlashan, G. Hepburn and Dr. Purdie; the Eastern district by W. Martin, J. Healey, and G. Walker; the Central district by J. Howorth, A. Rennie, and R. Todd; the Northern district by F. Fenwick and W. H. Teschemaker. The member for Port Chalmers was T. Tayler, for Tokomairiro James Smith, page 33 for Clutha Major Richardson with D. P. Steel, while Murihiku (Southland) was represented by A. McNab and W. F. Tarleton. But by this time the agitation of the Southland settlers for a separate constitution, long withstood in Dunedin, had reached its climax, and in May, 1861, the new province began its short and stormy career. Later in the session Messrs John Hardy, A. G. Oswin and A. McMaster took the seats vacated by james Smith, Major Richardson and W. H. Tesehemaker.

The Cargill Monument.Morris, photo

The Cargill Monument.Morris, photo

The great event recorded in this Council's annals was the dismissal of Mr. Macandrew from the post of Superintendent. There is no need to dwell on this painful episode, except to observe that, in spite of his many good qualities, high capacity and undoubted services to the country, Mr. Macandrew had by his own recklessness made such a course inevitable. He was four times chosen to be Superintendent of the Province, being elected in 1860, 1867, 1871, and 1873. He represented Port Chalmers for many years in the House of Representatives, and in 1877 was Minister of Lands and Public Works in Sir George Grey's Government.

The dismissal of Mr. Macandrew rendered a new election necessary, and, despite the circumstances referred to, the late Superintendent polled 189 votes, against 292 for Major Richardson, who was elected. Mr. McMaster, the third candidate, claimed 106 votes. Major Richardson, who was already Speaker of the Provincial Council, was an eloquent and able administrator, and did good service to the Province and the colony during his term of office. But at the election of 1863 he was defeated by Mr. J. H. Harris, who polled 560 votes against his 432. The most important fact connected with his superintendency was the discovery of the Lindis goldfield in 1861, and the subsequent “rush” that changed the whole face of the province, and made an indelible mark upon the history of the young colony. Sir John Richardson—he was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Victoria—was, according to the Jubilee number of the “Otago Daily Times,” “a man of noble disposition, the firmest and most enlightened friend of education; one of the first to move in the direction of the higher education of women; foremost in philanthropic movements, he was revered and honoured by people of every degree, and had every quality that endears man to his fellowmen.” He was a member in the House of Representatives for Dunedin during 1861–3, and afterwards sat in the House for a Taranaki constituency. He became Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Customs in the Weld Government of 1864–5, and was a member of the Executive Council, without portfolio, in the Stafford Ministry. In 1867 he was called to the Legislative Council, of which he was Speaker till the time of his death in 1879. He succeeded the Rev. Dr Burns as Chancellor of the Otago University.

Among members of Mr. Harris's Council who aferwards took a prominent part in colonial politics may be mentioned Messrs McKenzie, Dick, Pinkerton, Mouat, Bastings, and Julius Vogel. During his term of office Mr. Harris carried out the vigorous and public-spirited policy which he had always advocated while the settlement page 34 was still struggling for constitutional government. When he resigned in 1865, he kept up his interest in public life, and was chosen Mayor of Dunedin in 1867. His place as Superintendent was filled by Mr. T. Dick, who polled 990 votes against 565 cast for Mr. E. McGlashan. By this time discontent at the method of the Central Government was widespread throughout the South Island, and the movement towards separation found many supporters in the Provincial Council. In 1865, moreover, the Provincial Council came into violent conflict with the Town Board, and the disputes were settled only by the establishment of municipal government in Dunedin and the election of a City Council. The attempts of the general government to utilise the provincial and municipal funds roused violent antagonism in the provincial centres; and when Major Richardson and his fellow members returned to their constituencies they were made to understand unmistakably that the general feeling of the province was strongly opposed to any concession in favour of the authorities at Wellington.

In 1867 Mr. Macandrew once more came to the front in provincial politics, and his temporary disappearance seemed to have had no effect upon either his energy or his popularity. He polled 2259 votes against Mr. Dick's 1392. Mr. Dick, who had been Provincial Secretary in 1862 and member of the House of Representatives for Dunedin (1860), and Port Chalmers (1866), now retired for the time from public life. He reappeared, however, in 1879, when he was once more elected member for Dunedin, and was a member of the Hall and Whitaker Governments till 1884.

The balance of Otago's provincial history is covered by Mr. Macandrew's administration of the province as Superintendent. In 1871 he was again chosen by 3,242 votes against Mr. Donald Reid, with 2,950; and in 1873 he was once more returned with 3,902 votes, against Mr. J. L. Gillies, with 2,759. Few colonial politicians have received so many emphatic proofs of the confidence and admiration of their fellow citizens; and, in spite of obvious failings, few of the early colonists did so much for the land of their adoption as James Macandrew. To what has been already said of his career, it should be added that he established steam communication between New Zealand and Australia, that he was largely instrumental in establishing the Panama mail service, and that even then he advocated a fast direct steam connection with England. Of local public works, the Oamaru breakwater, the Port Chalmers graving dock, and the whole provincial railway system owed more to him than to any one else. He was strongly opposed to the Abolition movement; but when the provinces were finally swept away, he did good service to the colony as Minister of Lands and Public Works in the Grey Government (1877). As one of the founders of Otago University, he showed that he had the same enthusiasm for secondary education that he had previously displayed in fostering the primary provincial system; and, in fact, there was no side of life in his province on which, from his arrival till his death, his versatile and vigorous mind did not leave a deep and enduring impression.

Of the members of the Provincial Councils who ruled Otago under Mr. Macandrew, between 1867 and 1876, Messrs McIndoe, Barr, Turnbull, Shand, McLean, Allan, Fish, Toshach, Bathgate, Cantrell, Macassey, Holmes, Lumsden, Tolmie, Hallenstein, De Lautour, Mills, Oliver, Roberts, were all well known to those familiar with either the provincial and municipal politics of the “seventies” and “eighties,” and some are still honoured survivors from the early days. About 1867 the duties of the provincial authorities were heavily increased by the necessity for managing the goldfields; so much so that a plebiscite was actually taken as to whether they should or should not be subject to provincial control. Before 1870, the Council had done its best to encourage the infant industries of the colony by offering bonuses for the production of hemp and woollen cloth. By 1869 the struggle had begun for the re-annexation of Southland; Otago itself was by no means too opulent, and found it necessary this year to borrow £50,000 on the security of its pastoral lands. At the same time the Council did not neglect the less material interests of the people, and large reserves were set apart for the purposes of primary and secondary education. In 1870 Southland was formally re-united to Otago, and Mr. Julius Vogel (then Colonial Treasurer) in vain endeavoured to get a sympathetic hearing in Dunedin for his Public Works policy, which was afterwards adopted by the colony with conspienous success. In 1871 the agitation for a separate Government for the two islands was renewed, and a measure to that effect was proposed in the House of Representatives by Mr. Macandrew. In 1872 the perennial denominational question was raised, and the Council emphatically refused to commit itself to any policy that would confuse educational and theological issues. By 1873 the movement for abolition had already made rapid strides, and the original character of the settlement as a Scotch Presbyterian colony was fast changing. In the words of journalistic humour of the day, the “Old Identity” was being supplanted by the “New Iniquity”; and this process of evolution was illustrated in the provincial elections for 1873, when Messrs Cargill and Cutten among others were beaten by Messrs Fish, Bathgate, Turnbull and other politicians of more modern and less exclusive views. The session of 1874 was marked by vigorous and sometimes stormy discussions in the Council, on education, harbour works and abolition; and the Speaker, Mr. J. L. Gillies, resigned because his ruling was questioned. But 1876 was the last year of provincial existence; and in December of that year Mr. Macandrew, who had striven manfully to avert the destruction of the provinces, was returned along with Messrs Stout and Larnach to represent Dunedin in the newly constituted parliament.

The provincial constitution was founded on a very popular basis. The fran chise was the same as in the case of elections to the House of Representatives, a small property qualification being the only restriction. The Provincial Councils were not authorised to make laws on matters affecting the general interests of the colony; for example, customs, coinage, postal service, Crown and native land. But outside these limits, they did much which, sooner or later, was bound to bring them into conflict with the central authorities. The Governor could dissolve the Provincial Council or veto its enactments, or even disallow the election of a Superintendent. But in actual practice the Provincial Councils possessed almost unbounded local authority, which was page 35 mostly concentrated in and exercised by the Superintendent. The natural consequence was that the Superintendent's office was endowed with a dignity and impressiveness such as is paralleled by no political position under the present system; and the elections to that office were struggles in which all the social and political activities of the young colony were strenuously exerted on one side or the other. The tendency of these conditions was to induce rather too parochial and limited a view of political responsibility; but also to engage the best energies of all classes in the task of local government. The Provincial Councils, in spite of their too elaborate formalities and cumbrous mechanism, were probably the best means that could have been devised to foster local enthusiasms and guard local interests in the early days. Apart from every other consideration, provincial politics, despite the inevitable exaggeration of unimportant affairs, afforded a splendid training ground for those who were under a later system to regard public life rather from the point of view of the colony than any one of its local divisions.

In none of the provinces was better and more enduring work done by the councils than in Otago. The contrast between Otago in 1876 and Otago in 1852 is a sufficient proof of the energy with which the founders of the young settlement and their immediate successors had set about the task of opening up the country and developing its natural resources. No country in the world could show such a record as New Zealand in the way of public works during the first quarter of a century of its political growth. In Otago the discovery of gold, while it attracted new colonists in unprecedented numbers, added heavy burdens to the responsibilities of the rulers of the province; and to the great “rushes” in the sixties is largely due the wide extension of roads and bridges, and, later, of railways, which have now brought almost all the habitable parts of the province within easy reach of the capital and the coast. The public works system, with a system of education far more elaborate and expensive than most old world countries could boast, made heavy inroads upon the financial resources of the province, which nothing but its great natural wealth could have enabled it to meet. But, as in Canterbury, the financial success of the provincial government was one of the inducements that led the Central Government to press for the absorption of the provincial in the colonial treasury; and the property of the provinces, coupled with their obstinate antagonism to the policy of the Central Government, proved their ruin.

Incidental reference has been made to some of the more important public questions that at various times engrossed the attention of the Provincial Councils of Otago. For the first ten years or more of responsible government the forces of the “Old Identities” were largely occupied in maintaining the exclusive and sectarian character of the settlement, as best they might, against new comers. The original land policy of the Otago Settlement scheme was stoutly upheld, to the confusion of many who looked upon the new colony as an easy spoil for speculators. The vigorous self-assertiveness of the founders of Otago led them frequently to defend their independence against the encroachments of the Central Government, and to lend a sympathetic ear to the suggestions frequently made during the Maori wars, that the South Island should become politically separate from the North. The demand of Southland for independence was the signal for long and bitter civil strife, which ended only when the young province, after a short but sensational history, submitted, somewhat penitently, to parental rule. The constant growth of Dunedin and the necessity for meeting its increasing needs was long a strain upon the attention of the Council, until a Town Council was elected and the city entered upon its municipal career. Education, as was natural in a Scotch settlement, received its fair share of consideration, and in no province was more generous provision made for the requirements of both primary and secondary schools and the establishment of a University. Under the long regime of Mr. Macandrew, the province came to rely upon its own resources and to trust to its future, and when the struggle against Abolition began, no province held out more strenuously for the continuance of “the old order,” which, in the nature of things, had of necessity to pass away. But though the provincial system was finally overthrown, its good deeds, in the form of public works and education systems, survive it; and it is doubtful if any other form of government would so well have suited the requirements of the colony, especially in the case of “class settlements” like Otago and Canterbury while passing through the early stages of their growth.

Captain William Cargill , commonly known as the founder of Otago.was born in 1784 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the son of Mr. James Cargill, a Writer to the Signet. The ancestor of the family was one of the Scottish martyrs and a leader of the Covenanters; namely, Donald Cargill who was put to death in Edinburgh in 1688.in early life William Cargill entered the British Army, and, becoming a captian in the 74th Highlanders he served with them in Indian, and afterwards in the Peninsular war, for which he gained the medal and seven clasps. Though saverely wounded at the battle of Busaco.he was afterwards able to rejoin his regiment, and went through to the end of the war, finishing at the battle of Toulouse. in 1820 he retired from the Army, and was then in business in Edinburgh for some years; he was subsequently manager of a bank in England, and was otherwise variously employed till he took up the scheme for the settlement of Otago. After several years spent in promoting the scheme, captian Cangill at length sailed for New Zealand in the ship “John Wycliff,” Captain Daly, accompanied by the first dcatachment of settlers, and bringing with him his wife two of his sons and three daughters. They arrived at Port Chamers on the 23rd of March, 1848 and Captian Cargill at once assumed the leadership of the settlement, For some time afterwards he acted as agent for the New Zealand Company in Otago, and, on the establishment of the Provincial Govertnment in 1853. became the first Superintendent; he was unanimausly re-elected two years later, and continued to hold the office till the 3rd of Janauary, 1860.In the first General Assembly, which sat in Auckland, Captain Cargill represented Otago for four years resigning in 1859. He died on the 6th of August, 1860, aged seventy-six; Mrs Cargill lived ten years longer, when she, too, passed away in Dunedin, at the ripe old age of eighty-one.They had had a family of seventeen children, of Captain Cargill's daughters, the eldest, Christiana, married the late Mr.William Henry Cutten, who came outin the first ship.and was long well Known in Dunedin as Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, and as member of the Provincial Council and General Assembly, Mrs Cutten still resides in Dunedin, The second daughter, Anne married the late Hon. John Hyde Harris.barrister and solicitor, who filled the offices of District Judge and Superintendent of the provine, and also served in the Provincial and Legislative Councils.Mrs Harris died in 1881. Mrs Johnrobert, Who died in 1862.is still a resident of Dunedin.Of Captian Cargill's sons, two accompanied him when he first came to the colony. John the elder, married the eldest daughter of Mr.John, and had a large family. He was one of the earliest to ongage in sheepfarming and page 36 latterly held, in partnership with his son-in law, Mr.E.R.Anderson, one of the finest runs—the “Teviot:—in the south Island of New Zealand; it carried a very fine flock of over fifty thousand merino sheep. He died in British Columbia in 1898. The younger, Spencer, entered the Bengal Artillery, and transforred on the amalgamation to the Royal Artillery, from which he afterwards retired as Lientenant-Colonel. He now resides in Bengal. Artillery, and transforred on the emalgamation to the Royol Artillery, from which he afterwards retired as Lientemart-colonel. he now resides in Bengals.Another son, Mr, Edward B. Cargill, who arrived at Dunedin in 1847, is referred to at length elsewhere in these pages as an ex-mayour of the borough of Dunedin. Captain Cargill had other sons, the eldest, William Walter, being an eminent banker, who died in 1894 at the age of eighty. Another, Francis Alfred.was for many years an officer of the Oriental Bank Corporation in, and opened the branch ot that institution in Melbourne in 1852. Latterly he resided with his brother, Mr.E.B.Cargill. He is a widower, and has many children and grandchildren, some of whom are in New Zealand. Themas August another son, was also a banker, and was for some time in the West Indies, and afterwards in Sydeny. He died in Melbourne, in 1855. His widow died in Dunedin. in 1891, leaving a number of childern and grandchildren. Mr. E. B. Cargill died at “The Cliffs. near Dunedin, on the 9th of August, 1903, in his eightieth year. His wife and one daughter had predeceased him by many years, and he left a surviving family of four daughters—two in Dunedin, and two in Italy. The likness of Captain Cargill appears as a frontispiece to this volume.

Mr. James Macandrew was one of the most prominent and popular of New Zealand politicains; he is referred to in the general introduction to this volume, and at page 78 of the Wellington volume of the Cyclpedia. Many years before Mr.Julius Vogel arrived in New Zealand, Mr. Macandrew used to astonish the old identities of Dunedin by his energy in advocating goahead schemes of steamers, tunnels, rallways, telegraphs, and other startling undertakings .He was launghed at in the House of Representatives at Wellington for suggesting the advisabillity of encoraging direct steam communication with the old Country. Those who look back at subsiquent events will agree that Mr, Macandrew displayed an amount of forethought and shrewness which few men possess. After his death in 1887, a meeting of citizens was convened by the mayor of Dunedin, at which it was resolved to raise by public subseription a sum of money for the purpose of providing a memorial to Mr.Macandrew's memory.Over 700 was subnsribed, and it was decided to devote 500 for the establishment of an Macandrew schelarship at the university of Otago, and the balance for the erection of a suitable monument. The statue was placed at the northern corner of the Triangle, and is in the form of a half-life size marble bust mounted on a handsome pedestal of Walkawa stone, bearing the inseription “in memory of james Macandrew, late member of the House of Representatives, and formerly Supeintendent of the Province of Otago. Born 1819; died 1887. Erected by public services.” it was unvelled on the 4th of July, 1891. The Late Mr.J. Macandrew.

The Late Mr. J. Macandrew.

The Late Mr. J. Macandrew.

Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson , the third Superintendent of the Province of Otago, was born in Bengal, on the 4th of August 1810. After receiving his education at Addiscombe College, he returned to India as an artillery cadet, and remained in the military service of the East India Company till 1851. He visited New Zealand in 1852, and published the result of his impressions in a volume entitled A “Summer's Excursion.” He also published a poem in blank verse, entitled, ”the First Chirstian Martyr in New Zealand.” Major Richardson went back to England, but returned to settle in the Molyneux district of Otago in 1856. Subsequently he was elected to the provincial Council of Otago, of which he was chosen Speaker. This office the resigned in November, 1864, on Becoming Postmaster-General in the Weld Government, in which he subsequently held also the portfolio of Commissioner of Customs. Sir John was a member of the Stafford Government, without portfolio, from August, 1866 to May, 1868. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Dunedin from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned, but was returned for a Taranaki constituency in 1866. Having been nominated to the Legislative Council, he was appointed Speaker of that body, and occupied the position for nearly eleven years, in recognition of his honour of Knighthood from her Majesty Queen Victoria. Sir John, who was Chancellor of the 16th of December, 1878. He was capable and conscientions in all his dealing, and a man who neither feared his opponents, nor courted favour from his friends.

Morris, photo The Late Sir J. L. C. Richardson.

Morris, photo
The Late Sir J. L. C. Richardson.

The Hon. John Hyde Harris , who was for two years Superintendent of the Pronvince of Otago, was born at Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, in 1825. he was educated for the legal profession. In 1850 he arrived in New Zealand, and settled in Otago.where he practised as a barrister and solicitor for nine years. Mr. Harris was appointed a district judge and resident magistrate. He
Morris, photoThe Late Hon. J. H. Harris.

Morris, photo
The Late Hon. J. H. Harris.

page 37 acted as a judge till the office was abolished in, 1862, and continued a magistrate for two years later. He was elected in 1853 to the Provincial Council, in which he represented Port Chalmers until 1859. Mr. Harris was elected Superintendent in 1863, and resigned in 1865. He took an active part in the public affairs of Dunedin, and helped to promote the first New Zealand Exhibition, held in 1865, and was its president. Mr. Harris was also the second Mayor of Dunedin, and from 1867 he was a member of the Senate of the Otago University. He is referred to in another article as having been a member of the Legislative Council. Mr. Harris died on the 24th of July, 1886.

The Hon. Thomas Dick , Superintendent of the Province of Otago, was born in Edinburgh in 1823. After gaining commercial experience in London, he went to St Helena, where he remained seven years, when he removed to New Zealand, and arrived in Otago, accompanied by his wife and family, on the 26th of Novembr, 1857. He was elected to the Provincial Council in February, 1859, and at the general election for the Council, early in the following year, he was returned at the head of the poll for Dunedin. He occupied a seat on the Executive, and was subsequently Provincial Secretary. Another general election took place in 1863, when Mr. Dick was again returned for Dunedin, at the top of the poll. and still retained the position of Provincial Secretary. He succeeded Mr. Harris as Superintendent of the Province, in August, 1865, but was displaced by Mr. Macandrew, in February, 1867, when his first term expired. Mr. Dick died at his residence. Queen street, Dunedin. on the 5th of February. 1900, in his seventy-seventh year. He is further referred to in this volume as having been a member of the House of Representatives.

Wrigglesworth and Binns, photoThe Late Hon. T. Dick.

Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo
The Late Hon. T. Dick.

ProtectedMount Earnslaw, Lake WakatipuMuir and Moodie, photo

ProtectedMount Earnslaw, Lake WakatipuMuir and Moodie, photo