AFTER 68 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 6

AFTER 68 YEARS.

SISTER MEETS BROTHER. STRANGE RE-U.VIOX. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December. 22. Sydney is at present being vieitcd l>y an Englishwoman who is meeting her brother here after not having seen him for sixty-eight years. Xo happening in any way approaching this has been recorded in Australia before. The old lady, who is Mrs. Lewis, of Dorsetshire. England, is one of a touring party travelling the world, and from here she will proceed to New Zealand. She is about eighty years of Hge. Sixtyeight years ago when they w.«re ohiMren p!aying together, young" Cad-bolt (the brother) left for Australia, and on arrival out here he journeyed to the Manning River, on the north coa-t of New South Wales. Ye mottled on the land and retrained there all thci-e years. Meanwhile, his sister had got out of touch, and sli" he-n-d ■<■! more of l>e>■brother until the war. It was then that a grandson of Mr. Co , bolt enlisted for service, md on arrival in Knglnnd. he sought Mrs. T.owis. He found her. and it w«s then that •she learnt of how her brother ha* prospered on the land hero, and that there were no leß< tlinn four of Godliolts in the Manning River district. Mrs. Lewis deciled to come to Auntrnliii a< so-m as the war endod. On arrival this week, the (irand. son li»H to come down to the Xaldera to show Mrs. LewU to he>- brother. Mrs. T.ewts rlespi'e I )PT years, is a verY ac.tivo and ,; ever.- ,- rnin'ite of lier I'fe. Sl><> 'v.is greativ eveited on seeintr her li>-<>tlier. nn\ declared tVa! tho event was one of the mo«t. notable of her Hfe. Tl"« n»rtv is conducted by Mr. '"d.vnrtl F.R.O.f! . of A>ist,rs ij'i TTo* f *•**. v,'|in in ti-Icps T"o t niimwlTT. TTII. n-rtv pisn inchi-l"= V r ». Poornig,, of T.ondnn, - womin of ■■i-'-*v-nt#rl>* vea r -i of 37e. po- , * on r-'i "-prtfi .our AY the party will