The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, April 30, 1889.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 292, 30 April 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, April 30, 1889.

By just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God’s, and truth’s,

THE GOOD TIME COMETH-AH ! AH 1 Wb have almost lost count now of the time since Mr Weaver told the Gisborne shareholders in the South Pacific Petroleum Company that he would have the oil, without any shadow of doubt, in from one to two weeks—two weeks at the outside. What a serene contemplation that is at the present moment! Where are we how ? and it may pertinently be asked, where is Mr Weaver ? If our knowledge is vague on the latter point it certainly is not on the first one. The shareholders, to their sorrow, are well aware that a call has been made, and they also know that they are as much as ever in the dark as to when there is.fo be a realisation of the bright, prospects which their fancy has so often painted, of which they have been so devoutly assured is available at a few days’ notice. The only reward they have had so far for their patience is to be more sorely tried than ever. ‘ Mr Weaver has accused this journal of making mis-statements, and we have not thought it worth while to contradict him. But Tim? so completely verifies all that we have said that we are afraid we may become regarded as a prophet of evil, oply that we have gone no further than to record the truths of the present. Where is Mr Weaver now ? What new trouble has befallen the well ? Who is in charge of the bore ? When are operations to be again commenced, and What is to be the nature of those, operations ? These are questions we should like to hear answered, but the information is not obtainable from any official source in Gisborne. In the Sydney Morning Herald we notice that a Mr Weaver’s name appeared in the list of passengers by the last steamer for San Francisco; but we are not further enlightened as to who is the Weaver. All we:know is that Mr W. Weaver is not where he might reasonably be expected to be if he is sincere in the professions that he has made. There is a prospect- of things being improved under the altered management, but the improvement is slow to begin, and that in the circumstances is not a good sign. There is not much use in speculating upon the present position of things; there is the old remedy of doing what we have done many, manv years past — waiting patiently, like Micawber, for '! something to tufn up. ” As with that individual something always does turn up, but not the something that is wanted. We might, however, aek our readers to compare two distinct statements made in reference ~to the bore. At the last meeting in Sydney Mr W. Weaver said that when he left for America he had completed the workhe had undertaken to do and was free to go where he pleased. When Mr W. Fleming was in Gisborne that gentleman stated that Mr W. Weaver was not then in the Company’s employ, and that he was- paid up as far as he could be until the bore was measured. In the face of these statements, how is it that Mr Weaver gave instructions to Mr F. Weaver to allow no one to touch the well until he (Mr W. Weaver) c»me back ?