A PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
y' A writer in a Home paper thus narrates a curious coincidence: —“It struck me as rather a peculiar circumstance when, a few days ago, I received a letter from my brother in New Zealand, that in the course of hia epistle he should tell me that my address was discovered by him in an old piece of newspaper, viz., the Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, which had been given by some boy to one of bis sons, merely because it contained his name in print. This bit of paper was flying about the streets of Dunedin so many miles away from the town in which it was printed. ‘ You may imagine the ■urprise of my children,’says my brother, ‘ when at the tea table that evening, I told them, that the name on that paper was that of their uncle in England.’ The advertisement bore special reference to the sale of some electroplated spoens and forks, which had been used at the opening of the Herts Convalescent Home. I had not heard from my brother for nearly 27 years. It is certainly strange that a correspondence between us should have •risen under such peculiar circumstances.”
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1017, 14 October 1882, Page 3
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198A PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1017, 14 October 1882, Page 3
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