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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1221, 9 December 1882, Page 2

A contributor to the Christchurch “ Telegraph ” relates the following anecdotes of our coming Governor : —During the preparations for the Adelaide Exhibition the Governor was a daily visitor to the grounds, taking great interest in the undertaking. On one occasion one of M. Joubert’s youngsters, stationed the gate, not knowing Sir William, refused him admittance. ‘ Oh, I’m the Governor,’quoth Sir Wiiliam. ‘You the Governor ! ’ said the cheeky youngster ,- ‘ I’ve seen the Governor come in his carriage and pair. It's no good for an ordinary looking party like you to try and get round me I’ It was characteristic of Sir William that he paid the bov his shilling, and afterwards asked his father to make him a present of it. Another incident which happened to Sir William Jervois at the Melbourne Exhibition*' is worth recording. Many of the people in Christchurch will remember the irrepressible Charlie who sold cement, the whycumtuopopinjienmtuairy, and other Yankee notions. The Governor, walking through the exhibition one day, stopped at Charlie’s stall, and was thus addressed by the lively Yankee, who, of course, did not know till afterwards whom he was addressing, 1 Now, sir, come and try the indelible marking ink. You goes home to your misses, pulls up the tail of your coat (suiting the action to the word), writes your name on it—Brown, Jones, or Robinson, as the case may be—spits upon it, sits down upon it, and then says to her, “ Eh, old woman, that’s the way to mark your clothes.” The Governor was so much amused with Charlie’s antics that he bought a bottle of the marking ink, and on getting home, presented it to Lady Jervois, though whether with the words and action recommended by Charlie, history does not relats. And yet, for all his capacity of enjoying a joke at hie own expense, no one ever dared to take a libertyjwith Sir William Jervois, who thoroughly understands how to maintain the dignity of his office.”