LOVE’S CONFIDENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1923, Page 1

LOVE’S CONFIDENCE.

a romantic story

WANGANUI. May 10. A romantic story, which, it is devoutly hoped, will end as most novels end. is being told of a Wanganui boy and ;; Scottish lassie to whom be was be trothed durng the War. The hoy mot the lassie in Dundee, and both plighted tiieir troth. In the swirl of events, tieboy, an engineer, found himself in a ocean tramn Melanie, under a naval convoy, making for an English port. Tb.' tramp, the slowest and last of tin? (envoy, was torpedoed by a German submarine. When the boats were Icing lowered, one capsiaed. and tleUangaiiui hoy was thrown into the sea. and, presumably, was drowned. No direct tidings have since been obtained, but during the intervening five years the girl, with an instinctive Ic.ling that her lover is still alive, ha persisted in searching and acting n; the theory that he may have boon pi-kod up by » passing ship and varied to a. distant part of Hie world. Silo lia.s examined every possible hit of information, ton versing with traveller.-., watching shipping reports, and corresponding with all places and people which might give a clue. At the same time she lias kept, in close touch with the hoy’s parents in Wanganui. By the last .Home mail she lias sent information which nine more lias ripened the hope that her lover mav yet larestored to her. This time lor pev-dst-pnt search has found a possible trace of tlic missing one. In Venezuela, one oi the notrhern States of South America on the Atlantic seaboard, stu- has found that a voting, mail of the right mull-, worked for some time with the Frozen Meal Company of Puerto Cnbeljo. A letter in reply from the Mayor of tliai port says that the police made full investigations, and found that the mrr-i, a mechanic, had left that town and

could not he traced. The man was flittering from loss of memory. He li id come from I.a Vela, about lot) miles away, and the Mayor of that town also was communicated with. A phonograph of the New Zealander was scot and was recognised at once by sever.!! people as being that ol the missing mechanic. Mere again it is said that the man suffered from loss of memory. The detailed description given seemed to identify the mechanic with the New Zealander. Til the meantime, further enquiries are being made, around the many oil wells in that part, where mechanics are employed, in tho hope that a solution may ho found to tho mystery.