DEATH OF JUDGE YOUNG.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 92, 15 November 1879, Page 2

DEATH OF JUDGE YOUNG.

We -were considerably surpri"P*l and erieved'ori Thursday to receive a -telegram infoniiiirg us.tlmt Mr.;. Thorn xs Yountr. the recent iv-appointed. Native Judge, had expired at Ofrki, at six o'clock upon thafc ' morning. Fro m our Foxton contemporary we learn " thiit the deceased gentleman had been holrlinir a sitting of the Court at Otalci Jsiiyie. the; 29th ulfc* and a large, amount of busines-i had been put through. On Wedneadav last he; rode to Horowlienna, afonm-panie-1 by Mr. B. Booth, and nfter refcurnin-» , (so m plained of fueling unwell, having the symptoms of a bad bilhous altack. Dr. Hpwscn was called m, and utl ended to the Riifferer. On Tuesday. tho. Judse was slightly better, and was removed to a private house for the sake of more -quiet. On Wedne-=dar morning, when Mr. S. M. Baiter (who had beMi nttenrling Mr.Young') left Ot«ki, he seeixied bettar, nud -arr-insjei'l for iho Foxton Court to be adjournod till Tuesday next. However, -he was suddenly taken ill on Wednesdar evening, anil notwithstanding every attention, cxnired us above. The bo:!y v was •oou.vejod to Wellingtou yadlerdaj, i

nnd was accompanio.l by Pomare Kingi, Assessor, and ill*. W. - Grey, Secretary Native Land Court. • ■ . " Mr. Young was .for several years an interpreter to the Native Department, and was also m: erpreter to the House of Representatives, which position he held until a fevr months aj;o, when he received an appointment; as Judge of the Native Land Courts and was on that wovk afc the tinje .of his death. The deceased gen tleman % was deservedly and Jiniver3ally respected and esteemed both by Europeans and Maoris, ' aid" was'Tveia "m "lfigK : ~e§tinTatro*r'by the:latter.:' He wa : s a)so acknowledged to be one of-th© -besOiaori_J4aglUstS_iSJth e . c . o l°. n yTlie. deceased gentleman leaves a widow and three ? c'hildreh at VVelliftgtoiij who will, :no I doubt/- be 'ampl,f provided forl by. (Government."