TRUE FRIENDSHIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2623, 4 May 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

TRUE FRIENDSHIP.

Recently a paragraph went the round of the Press, stating that an officer who had been made a bankrupt for debts amounting to £800 had unexpectedly received from an old brother officer ft cheque for the amount, and that the bankruptcy had consequently to be annulled. The story when told in full, looks (says the London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph) more like romance than reality. The officer who was in trouble was a Major-General, and the gentleman who has befriended liim was also an oftcer. Years ago the two officers were in the same regiment and they became friends. But it happened that on one occasion they quarelled and the snstrangement lasted a considerable time. One Christmas, however, the general received from the other gentleman an envelope containing a simple little Christmas card—a bird with an olive branch in its beak. The general kept this for a year and the following Christinas seut it in the same way back to his friend. He also kept it the next Christmas, and then once more returned it to General. For thfrty years this token of renewed friendship has been going backwards and forwards, and last Christmas it happened to be the General's turn to send it. In the worry caused by the turn affairs had taken, he forgot all about the card, until two or three days after Christmas, it was come upon accidentally by his wife. She put it in an envelope, but instead of sending it in the usual way, enclosed a note explaining why it had been overlooked with a newspaper cutting referring to the bankruptcy- Promptly there came in reply a cheque for &1000, with the intimation that, as the sender had just come into a fortune, he was ouly too pleased tccome to his friends rescue, aud that, in future, lie intended to keep the oiivo branch as his most cherished possession.