Obituary.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 127, 20 September 1895, Page 2

Obituary.

MR ANDREW YOUNG.

. With regret, which will be participated in by all sections of the community, we have to announce the death of Mr Andrew Young, which sad event occurred at his resideuce, Upper Ellice Street, at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning. In his last moments he was surrounded by the whole of the members of his family with the exception of his eldest daughter, Mrs Goodman, and his third son, Mr John Young. Deceased was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1833, where his father, aged 94, still resides. Early in the "fifties" Mr Young, then a mere stripling, arrived in Victoria by the ship South Carolina. After trying his hand at Mount Alexander (Castlemaine) and Bendijo as a digger, he returned to Melbourne, where he accepted the position of driver from Messrs Higgett and Company—the original Cobb and Company—at a salary little inferior to that now paid to our colonial Ministers of the Crown. The " whip " was put on the road between Geelong and Ballarat, and for a nu jaber of years he drove Cobb's coaches, his colleagues being " Ned" Devine, better known in Otago as "Cabbage Tree Ned," aud Levy, the latter of whom was an American d'.iver. When the railway .roui Ballarat to Melbourne was completed Mr Young came over to Otago, where, in conjunction witb. several other gentlemen, he started a line of " Cobb's "to the Duustan. Fortune favored him in his coaching ventures, and enabled him to start a staging '.' le in Canterbury, between Christchurch and Hokitika, which eventually was extended to the Wellington province, where, in conjunction with Captain Anderson —a nephew of Sir Henry Barclay, then Governor of Victoria—and the late Mr W. H. Sheppard, he drove through coaches from Wellington to Wanganui in one day, a remarkable feat all things considered. Deceased subsequently extended his coaching operations in this Island. The deceased gentleman leaves a widow and eight children—five sons and three danghters. Mr W. A. Young, the eldest son, is proprietor of a stage line between Opunake and New Plymouth ; Mr Frederick Young is the agent of Messrs Levin aud Co at Foxton, whilst the third son (Mr John Young) is the accountant in the New South Wales Pastoralists' Union. The eldest daughter is married to Mr R. J. Goodman, clref postmaster at Timaru. The oih.T children are unmarried.— N.Z. Times.