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| − | + | John Yates was in Ballarat at the time of the Eureka Stockade. He counselled ''moderation with firmness and common sense in the midst of heated passions''<ref>"The Hamilton Spectator", 09 April 1870.</ref> | |
==Post 1854 Experiences== | ==Post 1854 Experiences== | ||
John Yates was Sheriff of the Ararat and Belfast Circuit District. <ref>"The Hamilton Spectator", 09 April 1870.</ref> | John Yates was Sheriff of the Ararat and Belfast Circuit District. <ref>"The Hamilton Spectator", 09 April 1870.</ref> | ||
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:We understand Mr. Yates leaves three sons in this colony, besides a widow in [[Ireland]], to lament his untimely death. His loss will, perhaps, be most fully and deeply deplored by the large class of subortinate officials who were under his immediate control in the in the department of the Ararat and Portland gaols, where the name of John Yates, to get fair play in any scrape, was always held as a tower of strength. | :We understand Mr. Yates leaves three sons in this colony, besides a widow in [[Ireland]], to lament his untimely death. His loss will, perhaps, be most fully and deeply deplored by the large class of subortinate officials who were under his immediate control in the in the department of the Ararat and Portland gaols, where the name of John Yates, to get fair play in any scrape, was always held as a tower of strength. | ||
:To his immediate subordinates he was the warmest friend, and his death has left a void difficult to fill. Among his contemporaries and personal friends, his death will cause a lasting impression ; he was never known to speak an unkind word of the absent ; ever cheerful, good-hearted, and obliging, ready to befriend in need or sympathise in distress.<ref>"The Hamilton Spectator", 09 April 1870.</ref> | :To his immediate subordinates he was the warmest friend, and his death has left a void difficult to fill. Among his contemporaries and personal friends, his death will cause a lasting impression ; he was never known to speak an unkind word of the absent ; ever cheerful, good-hearted, and obliging, ready to befriend in need or sympathise in distress.<ref>"The Hamilton Spectator", 09 April 1870.</ref> | ||
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| + | :JOHN YATES AND SUNDAY WORK | ||
| + | :(To the Editor of the Star.) | ||
| + | :SIR,Honest John "made a statement of his views respecting Sunday work" yesterday's ''Times'', and be felt it his duty to make the statement from questions put to him, as a candidate for the Mining Board, on Monday morning last. | ||
| + | :Surely the Sabbath Observance Committee must have been putting questions to him, and if so, they may think his reply rather vague; but I can assure them he can reply very pointedly if he thought it would suit bis purpose, for when some on Sebastopol Hill objected to blasting, &c., last year, his reply—nay, command—was, "Ye must give up these religious scruples." Of course he did not say, "Ye must give up your principles." Oh! no; that would not do for a man who is so emphatically a man of principle. | ||
| + | :I am, Sir, AN OLD SEBASTOPOL MINER. Ballarat, 10th February, 1858.<ref>Ballarat Star, 16 February 1858.</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 21:15, 4 July 2015
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
John Yates was in Ballarat at the time of the Eureka Stockade. He counselled moderation with firmness and common sense in the midst of heated passions[1]
Post 1854 Experiences
John Yates was Sheriff of the Ararat and Belfast Circuit District. [2]
Obituary
- SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN YATES, ESQ.
- Considerable sensation was caused in Hamilton yesterday morning by the report that Mr. Yates, the Sheriff of the Ararat and Belfast Circuit District, had suddenly fallen down and expired. The rumour was disbelieved at first by many, for the reason that Mr. Yates was seen an hour or two previously, alive and apparently in good health, driving in a buggy through the streets. No long time elapsed, however, before the report was authoritatively confirmed. It appears that Mr. Yates visited the house of Mr. H. Scott, at Fetherstonhaugh's Swamp on Thursday evening, where he was overtaken by a fit, and a medical man had to be sent for. Mr Yates recovered from the attack, but expressed a presentiment that he should die on the following day. This prediction was verified, for he was seized at his own house with a second attack, which terminated fatally. The inquest will be held at nine o'clock this morning, and the funeral will take place at three o'clock on Sunday.
- Mr. Yates arrived in this colony in the year 1852. Drawn hitherward like so many others by the fame of the gold diggings, it was at the first attempt at deep-sinking on the Ballarat gold-fields, we believe, that his sturdy independence of character, unflinching integrity and energetic honesty in all things great and small, caused his name to rise above the rank of his contemporaries, and obtain for him the well-earned soubriquet of "Honest John." His fellow-miners soon elected him a member of the Mining Board, the duties of which he satisfactorily performed, continuing to gradually increase his personal influence in the community by his general urbanity and warm-heartedness.
- At the time when the unhappy rioting at Ballarat arose, the influence of Mr Yates with a few of his intimate friends was powerfully and successfully exerted in the cause of law and order, in counselling moderation with firmness and common sense in the midst of heated passions. The small band, of which Mr. Yates was the chief, proved, we believe, the strongest instrument in the hands of the Government in allaying bloodshed and restoring order.
- The Government of the day were not slow in recognising those services, the Commission of the Peace having at once been offered to him. This was however, delined, Mr. Yates private fortune being not such as to enable him to continue an honorary assistant of the Government.
- In 1858, however, on Ararat being made a Circuit Town, and a Deputy Sheriff there appointed, the position was offered to, and accepted by Mr. Yates, who continued to hold it until (with its various changes) it became, as now, the Sheriffdom of the Ararat and Belfast Circuit Districts.
- It will be well within the memory of most of our readers, the regret so strongly expressed by all classes at Mr. Yates' removal from amongst us under the recent Government reductions, as also the general satisfaction-we might almost say, public ovation-by which he was greeted on his return in November last on re-appointment.
- We understand Mr. Yates leaves three sons in this colony, besides a widow in Ireland, to lament his untimely death. His loss will, perhaps, be most fully and deeply deplored by the large class of subortinate officials who were under his immediate control in the in the department of the Ararat and Portland gaols, where the name of John Yates, to get fair play in any scrape, was always held as a tower of strength.
- To his immediate subordinates he was the warmest friend, and his death has left a void difficult to fill. Among his contemporaries and personal friends, his death will cause a lasting impression ; he was never known to speak an unkind word of the absent ; ever cheerful, good-hearted, and obliging, ready to befriend in need or sympathise in distress.[3]
Newsworthy
- JOHN YATES AND SUNDAY WORK
- (To the Editor of the Star.)
- SIR,Honest John "made a statement of his views respecting Sunday work" yesterday's Times, and be felt it his duty to make the statement from questions put to him, as a candidate for the Mining Board, on Monday morning last.
- Surely the Sabbath Observance Committee must have been putting questions to him, and if so, they may think his reply rather vague; but I can assure them he can reply very pointedly if he thought it would suit bis purpose, for when some on Sebastopol Hill objected to blasting, &c., last year, his reply—nay, command—was, "Ye must give up these religious scruples." Of course he did not say, "Ye must give up your principles." Oh! no; that would not do for a man who is so emphatically a man of principle.
- I am, Sir, AN OLD SEBASTOPOL MINER. Ballarat, 10th February, 1858.[4]
See also
Further Reading
References
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