ROMANTIC REUNION.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 309, 17 September 1908, Page 2

ROMANTIC REUNION.

AFTER THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS. Paris, July 30. No writer of romance has ever conceived a story more extraordinary than that which ends with the finding of his daughter by M. Aniilcare Cipriani after 38 years. Most people know the Italian revolutionary M. Aniilcare Cipriani by name. In 1869 he was a refugee in London earning his living as a photographer. He there made the acquaintance of Miss Adolfina Rue, with whom he fell desperately in love and whom he married. The couple were living happily at Oxford Market, in Maryiebone, when, on September 4, 1870, the revolution broke out in France, and the Empire came to an end. Already a little daughter had been born to them, who was then seven months old, and boie the original name of Fulvia Lavinia Itala Roma Cipriani, but no considerations of family could restrain Capriani’s revolutionary ardour. He went to Paris, fought through the Commune, and was rewarded with life-long penal servitude in New Caledonia. From that day his wife and daughter were lost to him. Ten years afterwards he was pardoned, but when he reached England all trace of his loved ones had vanished. All that he could learn was that his wife was dead. " For twenty-eight years the old revolutionary, who had settled in Paris, hoped against hope that one day his daughter might be restored to him. Many a time he appeared to be on the right track, only to be more bitterly disappointed. A few weeks ago, however, he received a letter from the wellknown Parisian humorist, M. Jacques Wely, in which the writer said that he had* reason to believe that his wife was Cipriani’s daughter. Inquiry followed, and it was definitely proved that such was the case. For years father and daughter have been living in the same city, each longing to find the other, and yet never dreaming of their proximity.