A SAD SEPARATION.
Two policemen returning to the Lambton Station from street duty at 9 o’clock ou Friday night, carried between them a harp, says the Dominion.
People asked what the instrument was charged with, and made other facetious remarks ; but the constables were very grave.
Many a Wellington boy and girl, man and woman, had heard that old harp sing. Many a sunny day on the harbour waters its strings had made cheerier still. Often one has seen it with its red baise cover, moving slowly along the street on the bent back of a small and aged man. Few had ever seen the two apart ; they were as things inseparable. Together they were as familiar as the Quay itself; apart from one another we would probably have recognised neither. On Friday evening the old man was knocked down by a motor car, and a while later the harp was taken away alone. The minstrel was dead.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1069, 27 February 1913, Page 4
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158A SAD SEPARATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1069, 27 February 1913, Page 4
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