A STRANGE STORY.

Kumara Times, Issue 1085, 23 March 1880, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY.

The writer of Zigzag Papers In the Sydney Echo relates the following: Almost every day some incident occurs proving that fact is as strange as if not stranger than fiction. About twenty years ago the bridegroom of a few weeks went to the far not th of Queensland, there to make a homo for his young wife, whom he had married on faith and love. By dint of hard toil and perseverance he succeeded in less than twelve months in realising the object in view, and full of joyful anticipations he was about to start to this colony on the happy mission of claiming bis beloved from her parents, and bribing her back to the home he had juj«ded. hardly set out on he received the n ✓arnful tidings that she on whom all hxs hopes were concentrated was dead. Almost stunned by the cruel and unexpected blow, the bereaved husband set out for Europe, and continued a cheerless wanderer for many years, when he finally settled down in'Victoria’ and by the merest chance met a young lady at the house of a mutual friend, who to his surprise and joy, he discovered was his own daughter. The parents of his wife had never told of the child’s birth, dreading that she might be taken from them.