A Romance.
« _*• An up-to-day romance reaches the Post from Petone. A short time I back an elderly gentlemen purchased a piece of land in the borough, subsequently building and taking up hia residence there. Later on he employed two men to put down a artesian well. While they were at work the wife of one of them, a middle-aged woman, went one day at noon with her husband's dinner. Something in her appearance arrested the employer's attention, and he asked who she was and what ber maiden name had been. Further enquiry proved her to be his daughter whom he had not seen sinca she was a child. His joy at the discovery was manifested by his building anotber house on the same section, where his daughter and her family now reside, close to her long-lost father. I I ■.!_ IJ, "_Ll__
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Manawatu Herald, 27 January 1898, Page 3
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141A Romance. Manawatu Herald, 27 January 1898, Page 3
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