MR GLADSTONE IN A FIX.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1558, 18 September 1886, Page 3

MR GLADSTONE IN A FIX.

Ad incident of a somewhat ludicrous nature occurred while Mr Gladstone was recently addressing a Glasgow audience at Henglea’s Circus. It is 100 good not to be rescued from oblivion. The weather was hot, the circus packed with people, and the June air stifling. To ensure extra ventilation some windows were smashed, and the gusts of air admitted through the apertures thus made blew out many of the jets of gas. Here was a new terror. To choke from the effects of gas is not the nicest death imaginable. The lights could not be reached to be rejighted ; but even had this difficulty not existed, it would have created too much continual commotion to re-lights the jets, as gust after gust blew them out. The only alternative was to screw the gas off from the main meter, This was done, and when Mr Gladstone arrived be received an ovation in the semi-darkness, which the skylights of the building only made apparent. As happily the hour of meeting was 3 o’clock in the afternoon, total darkness had not to be contended against. Presently a new and greater source of difficulty arose, Mr Gladstone, wishing to read an extract from one of Dr Chalmers’ writings, adjusted his eyeglasses, peered at the paper before him, but could not see sufficiently well epoiigh to m«ke it out. The chair? man and another gentleman, with an in? spiration of the moment, came to the rescue with lighted wax vestas, which they held on each side of the Premier conveniently for him' to distinguish the reading matter. It being observed, however, that the chairman was once or twice dangerously near singeing the Grand Old Man’s scanty whiskers, one of the audience called out “ Ye canna baud $ capdle to him,” amidst the upropions laughter of the assembly. The climax of this undignified end absurd predicament was reached when a candle, firmly fixed in one of Mr H. Thomson’s Irish whiskey bottles, was brought in to illunjine the gloom and enable the Prime Minister to proceed with his address.

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