A COINCIDENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 March 1912, Page 3

A COINCIDENCE.

We heard of a remarkable coincidence on Saturday evening (says the “Wanganui Chronicle”). A Wellington gentleman was spending a holiday in Auckland some weeks ago. While there lie visited the theatre to witness a production of “Ti'io Chocolate Soldier.” The night being very wet he took with him his umbrella, which he placed in the cloak-room. A couple of days later ho d : scovcrcd that he had become possessed of another umbrella than his own, but where the exchange had been made he could not think. This umbrella he carried in rain and sun till Saturday evening, when, happening to bo in Wanganui, he went to-the Opera House, to see “Miss Lancashire, Limited.” Heavy rain falling, his adopted umbrella accompanied him. He placed it in a corner of the cloakroom, and a little later it was joined by another umbrella. Judge of the gentleman’s surprise after the play to learn that the second umbrella was Ids own. Conversation . showed that an Auckland gentleman wJio had been present at the performance of “The Chocolate Soldier” had had his umbrella taken, another being left in its place. Like the Wellington visitor, he had given up hope of seeing his property again, and had regarded the now “gamp” as his own. Visiting Wanganui on Saturday, he had gone to the Opera House to sec “Miss Lancashire Limited,” and had placed his adopted umbrella alongside what afterwards proved to be his long-lost rain protector. With his rightful property restored in so strange a manner each of the visitors went his way rejoicing.