REUNITED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1383, 8 March 1912, Page 4

REUNITED.

A PATHETIC STORY. (By Teleeraph—Press Association.) Auckland, March ". The American Consul states that the. cabled report of tho finding of tho missing daughter of n Tncoina resident in Auckland is substantially correct, but tho name of the parties concerned is Peter-, sen, not Kelbourne. Miss Petersen is eighteen years of age. She communicated with him, and told ■ her story, and ho communicated with the British Consul at. Taeoina, with the result that lie discovered tho girl's uiuther, and sho was returned. A member of the . Christndelphian Society, of which Miss Petersen and her father were members, was nblq to reUuo further particulars to a reporter. It is now some nine or ten years ago sinjo father ami daughter arrived in Auckland from America, ;ind when they took up their residence in this city they assumed the name of Williams, by which they were known all the time they were in' Auckland. Mi-s Petersen was then only a little girl over eight years of age, and both were verv reticent' regarding their previous movements. The father established ;i small photographic, studio in Upper Queen Street, near the Town Hall, and for about leu years carried on business there. His death took place early in the pic-eiil year very suddenly, his daughter lindiug him dead in bed one morning. A letter was then found amongst deceased's effects, disclosing his life's story, and the fact that the mother was probably still alive in America, but would be quite unaware as lo whether her daughter still lived, or in what country she resided. The wish was al-n expressed bv the father that in the event of his death the daughter should endeavour lo liiul her mother and return lo her. Miss IVler-on, «ho by now has grown to lie a hand-.nue young woman of IS vears. -onghl the n«. si-lanee ul the American Consul with the re-Mill that, ns above imlieateil, the mother and daughter are at last united.