THE LOST BICYCLE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10381, 26 June 1899, Page 5

THE LOST BICYCLE.

%p. r-'l* i* not often (observed the "New Zea- : Times") that a bicycle i». found after been, lost for cloea on three yean, euch a thing occurred k' Wellington jfcoently. So far back a* August 24tb> 1896> ft;;"jc»c W; A. Fordham lost* bicyckifrom the ;?f.. Wotking Mesa's Club, and as inquiries made for it had long since proved fruitlees, he ~':;> nsktttrally gaves up oil hope of ever seeing it /;&.■ Strange to relate, however, it reappeared' two ortihree day* ago in a some'"'if:l- what remarkable- manner., * A morning or ago a gentleman who lives in Tinakori on leaving for his work in* the mom*g'v■;'Sag, found » bicycle in ias front garden. ti- ; : T 'Hfi left it there, however, thinking it had ?t;; . been left there by Someone for convenience tf (ftfce, but aa it wa* still there when he re--4' ' turned borne in tlia evening, he took it into ''*, c the house, ttttd informed *«» police of the 1 1> circumstance. TShe madiuie wae ultimately ■; |l identified as Mr Eordhsm'e, and although it t, V 4»ad been tampered with to some extent, &.:? «ad an -effort made to efface come of the ?a*"v figures of the number, it wa» in good re* $*> ptk, and, had evidently been subjected to reasonable treatment at the bands of tjCu: iihe person in whose keeping it had been the interval " ■ - ■ ••'!'. "