A PLEASANT SURPRISE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 283, 20 March 1877, Page 3

A PLEASANT SURPRISE.

Thtre lived in Oakland. Cat., the pisi few ys'iirs, ,i iiwii! at jjetitbman by Hie name" of f\ttr Mdter. ' He haa reshlcd in California for the last twenty ycjr..*. worked in the mints, and ; art »>f the time at His trails carpentering. Years a.-<>, he eommeut'ed tosjnl'home tf» his w.d-.wed mother. Uvitv- in Michigan. «;•««' * c e »:iid ait'ord t<> spare from his tavninj.?. Beiin,' a baclteb>r, K; tout d it*-t bto-k tt c nL-.m of bavin- the Uli--E of his Utart to.t in her »k- - consequently htr sent her uwnry from time to tune, malms m>entry of ir, hut t>v;;stun6ft that his wovU y r*lutiv_« would use it fin she ttesnu'd prober. Attt r ytsaru of absence h's im»thet* kept writing for him to returr, but other old Cabf-mians he v. a'- proud, and did no* desire t>> yo *' aj k "•ntu he had snfkeieut to ''show" that he was from the t*h [deli .Stattv Time wo;b changes, and sik it did with Peter: he found himself about a month a»o without labor—"strapped,'" to use "the common term and the surrounding neither jdea.wit nor satisfactory. He «twt unwell, (■■f home and hU friends in tUe Wolverine district*. He wrote to t.b mother that he could tiM« corral his pride any linger, and *'.at«| hi* situation. It he had im»ne_V he would return, out he had! to make it. SuUf - tptontty lie reedved a cheque for £OO dollars, and in the letter was states! that the money he hat! t»jeu sending honu for years- hatt been invited in a real 1 state, unit asking bint to take charge of his {«<>- peifc/ winch was; wwrih ftfty thousand dollars.