i. ■. 'v.-- ■■ •> . • r Three brothers met on the' Wellington, wharveg, the other day afteV'lV-iying been separated for about 53' years., ...During / that tuns they have, jjpt. seen, anything* of each other. ,The ajf*e£ of the brothel's are 78 • 71, aiid 1 68," making-. a .total 0f5.217 ' between them... Ifhe occasion of the f*i§etipg .'/jvas ."t<rj. , V?ypl,cpme .the* eldest i rdther, who had come/across Ir_»m. Syd-^ ney to see the other two. The eldest and the one 71 years of age were amongst < tbe first diggers on the Hokitika rush m 1864. The eldest brother has made money, and is now retired, living about 500 mile., from Sydney; the brother 71 years of age was for 40 years on the New Zealand railways, and is now a retired stationmaster ; while the third an A vrnin _.««_- . is a farmer m iha Tflrn. !
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14237, 3 March 1917, Page 5
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