The Reporter

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 9

The Reporter

THE LATE MR YALE. Another o£ the good old identities has gone to his rest, Mr Thomas Yale left England about the year 1851 for Yictoria, where he spent eleven or twelve years, mining, carting, and in business, etc., goingthrough all the varieties of success and reverse that made up life on the goldfields during the first ten years of the Australian gold diggings. Coming over to Hew Zealand in the early sixties, he had ever since been a Southland resident. He remained at the Bluff for some time, and then went into the employ, as an overseer, of the railway contractors, J. R. Davies and Co. on the Bluff line, and also on the “ wooden railway ” to Win ton. Subsequently he purchased land at Otatara Bush, and became interested in sawmilling, and later — about eleven years since—bought the: Te Wais Point station and stock from the late James Colyer. He at once took up his residence on the station, remaining there until his sale of it, about two years ago, to Mr Brook. After the sale of Te Wais, he became the owner of a farm on Seaward Moss, where he had since lived. Of a kindly and generous disposition, Mr Yale was liked by all. Well informed, a keen observer, and reader of human nature, his judgment of men was seldom at fault. His early digging and Australian experience, coupled with an inexhaustible fund of anecdote and

humour, rendered his. company not only agreeable, but also instructive. Few men possessed a more correct sense of fair play and equity as between man and man, bespeaking a well-balanced mind, nice even to points of honour. His hand was always open to the call of distress, and the wayfarer, whatever he mig'ht be, was sure of a hearty welcome at Mr Vale’s.