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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 253, 6 March 1875, Page 2

The following account of the last days of poor Joe Small are from the Hung Kong Times of the 17th December:— “ With much regret we announce the death of Mr. Joseph Small, at sen, on board the s.s. Brisbane, on the evening of the 15th instant. Not many months since he left this colony for Dunedin, with a heap of purchases, in the shape of Ciiinese and Japanese curios, expressing his intention to return to Hong Kong, with a view of giving a repetition of his popular entertainment, which doubtless numerous colonists remember. He took passage from Sydney on the 7th November, in the ‘ I'om Morton,’ having previously been under the doctor’s band for soni3 time. Three days after departure, he was taken sick, and was bad until reaching Somerset.. He then became worse, and for 17 days lived onsagoalone. lie was such a favourite that the steward and gentlemen passengers sat up with "* him night after night. On reaching Batavia, a doctor prescribed for him,

thinking that he was suffering froin an abscess on the liver. He rallied before arrival at Singapore, and then shipped in the ‘ Brisbane’ for here. While on shore at Singapore he suffered much from The day after leaving Singapore this disappeared and he seemed to rally, and continued in better health until within fifteen minutes of his death, which was a very quiet one. The doctor of the Brisbane attributes death to * disease of the heart and enlargement of the liver.’ The body was committed to the deep on Tuesday evening at 5.15 with the usual ceremony, it being deemed impossible to await arrival for interment at Hong Kong. Before arriving at Batavia deceased was aware of his dangerous state, and gave instructions to Mr. Macfarlane, chief steward, to hand to his executor in Melbourne, all effects. W’e are sorry to add that a wife and family will experience a bereaval. Those who recollect * Boor Joe Small, whose fame as a public entertainer, humourist, friendly companion, and no mean poet, was well known in these parts, the Colonies and New Zealand, will doubtless often give a thought to the excellent departed. Until his last his constanttalk was of his friends at Hong Kong and his desire to set foot amongst us once more. . . Üb. English (says the Napier Telegraph) a well known medical practitioner in this province, was found dead in his bed on Sunday, at the Empire Hotel, AVaipawa. Hr. English arrived in the Colony in 1851 and has practised his profession in the Waipukurau district for the last twenty-two years.