A PATHETIC STORY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1017, 9 March 1912, Page 3

A PATHETIC STORY.

Auckland, March 7

The American Consul states that the cabled report of the finding of the missing daughter of a Tocamo resident in Auckland is substantially correct, but the name of the parties concerned is Petersen, not Kelbourne. Miss Petersen is eighteen years of age. She communicated with him, and told her story, and he communicated with the British Consul at Tacoma, with the result that he discovered the girl’s mother, and she was returned. A member of the Christadelphian Society, of which Miss Petersen and her father were members, was able to relate further particulars to a reporter. It is now some nine or ten years ago since father and daughter arrived in Auckland from America, and when they took up their residence in this city they assumed the name of Williams, by which they were known all the time they were in Auckland. Miss Petersen was then only a little girl over eight years of age, and both were very reticent regarding their previous movements. The lather established a small photographic studio in Upper Queen Street, near the Town Hall, and for about ten years carried on business there. His death took place early in the present year very suddenly, his daughter finding him dead in bed one morning. A letter was then found amongst deceased’s effects, disclosing his life’s story, and the fact that the mother was probably Still alive in America, but would be .quite unaware as to whether her daughter still lived, or in what country she resided. The wish was also expressed by the father that in the event of his death the daughter should endeavour to find her mother and return to her. Miss Petersen, who by now has grown to be a handsome young woman of eighteen years, sought the assistance of the American Consul, with the result that, as above indicated, the mother and daughter are at last united,