THE WELLINGTON BARBERIS IT HE?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1404, 20 August 1881, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON BARBERIS IT HE?

Thk San FraiieLico Neu\i Letter tells the following little story :— " Mr. John Hoeach, of the Health Office, is seldom taken in by outward appearances, although nothing stronger than tea is taken in by him inwardly, but he got so badly sold lately the event is worth recording. A distinguished-looking gentleman walked into the Health Office recently carrying an ulstar, * valise, a pet dog, two umbrellas, and the small -pox. He was magnificently dressed inthe best baggy English style, and the pink of perfection from his side whiskers down to his watch-chain, studs, and flat-bot-tomed shoos. ' I believe there's some awfully beastly thing the matter with me, by Jove,' he remarked, 4 and the fellows at my hotel told me, you know, to come here and inquire about it. ' Mr. Hoesch bowed very low, for he felt he was in the presence of a true British swell. ' Pardon me, my Lord,' he said ; ' Excuse me, your Grace, but it is my sad duty to inform you that you are suffering from small-pox. 1 will telephone for the ambulance, my Lord, at once.' With many apoligies for the scanty accommodation, his Lordship was put iv an outhouse until the ambulance came, and, remarking to Hoesch that he was ' wather a jolly sort of fellow,' he entered it, Mr. Hoesch assuring him that his valet and effects would be sent out to him from the Palace Hotel. But it was rather annoying next day to find out that the illustrious personage was a New Zealand barber, and that having the disease very slightly, he was engaged in shaving all the other patients at two bits a head A fact." Querry— Could this have been the lamented George North 1