WHEN GLOOM AND DARKNESS REIGNED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17220, 11 December 1923, Page 1

WHEN GLOOM AND DARKNESS REIGNED.

BY STY BAI> As 1 was strolling home last night, nnd raindrops falling down, then suddenly went off the light m every street in town. They flickered up a little spr'ce. and then went off once more, and darkness ruled in every place, the whole wide city o’er. 1 stumbled onward through the night, disconsolate and wet. and then, to my immense delight. another man I met. F rushed and tapped him on the back; Your pardon, sir.” T said, • but why are all the streets so black, as in a city dead? A glimmering T have not seen for almostnow an hour; oh. pray, can you suggest, old bean, what’s happened to the power?” 1 T do not know the cause.” said he. “ anxiety is mine. for something, it would seem to me. has happened to the line. Perhaps spine reckless man absurd has set the Lake afire: or possibly a dicky-bird has wit upon the wire: Perhaps you really never know—the pines are blocked with me; perhaps, it's due to radio, or maybe even mice. The point- for me is too abstruse, for ignorance is blest ; they've always got- a good excuse when Coleridge goes west.”