STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 10

STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

NEW ZEALANDER'S MONEY. BANK DBAFT GOES ASTRAY. 9 TWO MEN NAMED McCANN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, September 9. A remarkable chain of coincidences, through which a bank draft from Now Zealand was delivered to the wrong man in the Dorrigo district, on the North Coast, is reported this week. Mr. James McCann is a visitor to Dorrigo from New Zealand, and; planning a protracted stay, he sent word some j months ago to a firm of solicitors in j Auckland, requesting them to forward a sum of money left him from an estate. When a month elapsed without the receipt of the draft, he advised the solicitors, and they replied immediately to the effect that they had forwarded it, giving dates and sending a copy of the covering letter. ' ; McCann visited all the local banks in I Dorrigo, but no trace of the missing draft could be found, with the result that he spent some more money cabling to the solicitors. Only this week the draft was traced accidentally by a local bank manager, who remembered a draft having come through a local businessman's account. The letter, it has been discovered, had been sent to a young i man residing in the district, whose name is also James McCann. He, too, has an : uncle in New Zealand bearing the same ] name as the uncle of James McCann who was the real beneficiary. When the second James McCann re- f ceived the letter and the draft, they re- < ferred to his uncle as having died and | left him the money, and lie put through ; the transaction in good faith. The two McCanns met in Dorrigo, and , the matter was straightened out.