HIGH LIFE IN AUCKLAND
It was night in one of the by-streets> There was no more moonshine than there is about this par. Clouds obscured the :stars. The streets were silent. Only a few festive cats relieved the solemn calm, .-and evoked missiles and blasphemy from sleep-robbed -cits. The policeman moved like a shadow along his loaely beat, pausing to scrutinise the windows and fanlights -of the hotels for a chance of a propitiatory drink. Suddenly the dread .•guardian of the peace paused near a verandah, and listened intently. Was it one or two burglars? No; for one was, the figure of a well-known marTied lady, and she wns clasped in thestrong arms of a man. The kisses were fast and furious, causing the sustceptible.hearfc of the constable to palpitat e violently. He crept closer, and caught the words, uttered in. a soft tremulous voice, " It will not be safe to come before 4 o'clock, dear !" Then the male person took one long passionate farewell kiss. wended his way to the nearest pu »., emerged with a bottle, and sent it by the hand of a boy to the lady who "was waiting under the verandah By the flickering light of the gas-lamp the constable recognised in the gay Lothario the lineajments of a prominent preacher of morality :snd pillar of godliness. Such is life, dear boys. — Observer.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 91, 14 April 1883, Page 3
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