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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1159, 26 September 1882, Page 2

i The veteran comedian, familiarly known jail over the colony as “Johnny” Hydes, j has been seized by an affliction that is exi pected to terminate only with the grave. A j letter has been received in Christchurch from Melbourne stating that he is suffering from fatty degeneration of the heart, and at the time of writing, there were no hopes of his recovery. If our shopkeepers generally were to folj low the example set them by Messrs Thelwall and Co., they would not only beneflt . themselves, but confer a great boon upon the public. During the gusts of wind today, by aid of a small hose and a nozzle leading from a raised tank, they kept their premises entirely free from dust by playing upon the footpath.

We take the following extract from the Hawke’s Bay “ Weekly Mercury At the : meeting of the Victoria Royal Arch Chapter held on Friday at the Masonic Hall, Munroe street, the following officers were elected for the ensuing twelve months:—W. O. McLeod, Z.; W. Beilby, H.; J. M. Girdlestoue, J.; R. M. Miller, Scribe E.; J. W. Upchurch, Scribe N.; R. Brooking, P.S.; F. Garner, Treas.; E. L. Ingpeu, Janitor. The installation of tlie above officers was ably performed by P.Z. Wundrum. The sum of £lO was voted in aid of tlie funds for the erection of a children’s ward at tiie Hospital. , Mr Henry Hill, Inspector of Schools, strived from Napier on Sunday last, in the U.S.S. Company’s Ringarooma. We understand that this gentleman went up country yesterday morning, and will forthwith proceed to inspect the schools in the district, and will return to Gisborne next week when I he will inspect the Government schools. It is announced that peerages will be offered to Sir Beauchamp Seymour and Sir Garnet Wolseley for their successful conduct of tlie Egyptian affairs. It has been notified to Lord Charles Beresford, tlie Commander of H.M.S, Condor, that special recognition will be made of his services on tlie occasion of the bombai dment of the Alexandrian Forts. Lord Charles is brother to “ Ulundi i Bill.

Mr I. A. Weaver, the gentleman who has i just arrived from Pennsylvania to work the i South Pacific Petroleum Company’s Oil I Springs, is a thorough “ Yank." Talk abont ; taking the “bracks off a Higlilandman!" nhy its nothing compared to a reporter's i trouble in getting information from Mr ’’ eaver. One of ov.r staff tackled him on j ill* arrival ami made sundry enquiries, but i hu? Imjcu eunipvllud touunfess that the astute ! “oily one ’ knew too much to let out any- j tbnig. However, we have learned that Mr I 11. Bourke, the General Manager, and Mr I Weaver proceeded to the Springs yesterday, j the advent of a thoroughly practical man is ■ an event on which the Company is to be generally congratulated, and we trust that i his report, which we will shortly he enabled \ to publish, will show that there is a mine c-f oleaginous wealth in the district. We shall ' ■ await with some considerable anxiety the re- ■ port of an expert, such as Mr Weaver un- 1 dov.btedly is, as it means money almost tin- ! i couiituble to the district. We can oiilv hope that his tests will fully prove that tfu-re'is j ru«t .uily oil <of that w'c know full well) lait ; , that it exists in p;iynl'le quantity. , ,