Travels of a Letter.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 17 March 1904, Page 4

Travels of a Letter.

A remarkable story is told by Mr Jordan, warehouseman, of Bolton and Sons' copper works, Oakamoor, Staffs. Having for 25 years lost his sister, .Jordan conceived the idea or' putting the following letter in a coil of copper going abroad : "To a Kind Friend,—Twenty-live years ago my sister, Mrs E. iiardl- | man, went to Sydney, New South ! Wales. 1 have not heard from her since. If by chance this letter drops into the hands of anyone who knows any Ilurdiinuns, I should be glad to hear (rum them. They left Wcdnesbury, South Stall's., when 1 was a little boy." A line'overseer in South Australia in the employment of the telegraph department, found this letter attached to a coil of wire, which hud been forwarded to him. He read the hater and despatched if to the postmaster at Adelaide. That otliciul passed it on to a colleague in Sydney, who in turn sent it to the postmaster at. Unhnain. The hitler, knowing a Mrs Itariliiiiau, interviewed her, and found she came from Stalls., and that her maiden name was .Jordan. Mrs Ilardiman said she wrote twelve years ago to her brother, but did not receive a reply. Correspondence has now been resumed.