The Dead Letter Office.
♦ Many a waif and stray has found its last refuge in the Dead Letter Offioe. The year's records just closed tell the same curious story. The were found in letteri opened in the New Zealand Dead Letter Office, durinr the year ending March last, Post Office orders for £786, bank drafts for £1872. cheques for £1343, promissory notes for £219, a New Zealand Government debenture for £36, postal notes for £180 and bank notes for £417. besides gold to tbe value of £18. The following heterogeneous collection of articles found their way to the office:— Six silver watches, two nickel watches, one goldmounted greenstone brooch, one gold watch chain, one silver watch chain, two pairs flieevelinks, silver plated knife, fork and spoon, a butter knife, a gold pencil case, two gold nuggets, five gold rings, a gold cross, a gold bangle, a greenstone pendant, a pair of eyeglasses, » penknife, a purse with £1 6s 9d in it, a silk handkerchief, several Tattersall's tickets— on« for £20, two for £10, three for £5 one for " Confidence"— a pawn ticket and thrse steerage tickets. If some of tbest articies could speak, what strange stories they might tell.— N.Z. Times.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 81, 29 September 1894, Page 4
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201The Dead Letter Office. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 81, 29 September 1894, Page 4
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