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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, June 1909

Held At Wellington, Easter, 1909

Held At Wellington, Easter, 1909

"When the morning of a Tournament Brake with a wet wind blowing."

Idylls of the King.

TTo those who were awakened in the small hours of Easter Saturday morning by an insistent patter of raindrops, the foreboding was ominous. By daybreak the fates seemed to have completely conquered and a Persistent northerly had installed itself, shaking steady rain out of the moisture-laden clouds that enveloped the City, and flouting the prophecy of the weather-wise that "Fair weather cometh from the north." Such were the weather conditions that greeted those who had spent weeks of insistent toil in preparing for the successful management of the Eighth New Zealand University Tournament and welcomed to Wellington the Auckland representatives, who had arrived by the Main Trunk Express on Thursday, and the Southerners who journeyed thither by the "Maori," on Friday morning. Undeterred by an outlook so disheartening and a prospect gloomy in the extreme, a numerous and optimistic assembly of students wended its way to the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall to receive the official welcome of the Mayor and Citizens of Wellington and hear explained away such untoward behavior of the weather.