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large subscription had been made towards the erection 
of an Episcopalian church at Wellington both in 
England and in the colony ; the Company had come 
forward with a sum of money for this specific object ; 
and all were waiting anxiously for the Bishop to fix 
on the site and to direct the commencement of the 
building. At this time, the Scotch Presbyterian con- 
gregation met in the Exchange, and the Wesleyan 
congregation in a large store closely adjoining. 
When I left Wellington in February 1844, the 
Scotch Presbyterians had enjoyed a neat, substantial, 
and roomy wooden chapel, on the Public Reserve as- 
signed to them, for some months ; the Wesleyans had 
possessed a small wooden building, also for some 
months, and had laid the foundations of a very large 
brick chapel. The Episcopalian church had not yet 
been begun ; nay, the site for its erection had not yet 
been finally decided upon. 
By the same ship that brought the news of Bishop 
Selwyn's active doings at Nelson, we received the 
melancholy intelligence of the death of Mr. Young. 
He had been accidentally drowned while fording a 
river in an exploring expedition with a friend, who 
was unable to save him. 
William Curling Young, the eldest son of one of 
the Directors of the Company, had been a leading man 
in that band of generous and self-denying spirits 
whose character I have on a former occasion attempted 
to depict. I may say boldly that the little society of 
Nelson had scarcely a better man to lose. The last 
public act of his life had been to refuse, with manly 
indignation, the offer of the Auckland Government to 
place him on the Commission of the Peace. His pub- 
lished letter rebuked the Governor most justly and 
severely for having asserted as a principle that a Jus- 
