A Romantic Incident in Real Life
New Plymouth, October 1. The Inglewood correspondent of - the Taranaki Herald writes :-^-" Aparty of surveyors in the Ngatimam country have come across a young woman who, is recognised by . a scar across her breast as being a whiterchild of Mr Upperton, . settler, who .vas lost in the bush in January, 1878, and who at the time; was supposed to hare been stolen hy a Maori." The surveyors who lave .broi giifc,. /< in the news say she is married to a- I."' ' -."' Maori, and at present cannot speak. a word of English. Humor has it that when stolen she was conveyed to the- - Hawke's Bay district in order, toelude the Bearch parties Her twa brothers have gone So see if they can recognise their long lost sister in the - woman alleged to be bo like her."
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 45, 3 October 1889, Page 2
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