A LETTER FROM THE SEA.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 4

A LETTER FROM THE SEA.

of °F r£™ F; H * + Mc^ tfc > -a member 7pXST^7 °f the N»neteenth New Zealand Reinforcements, consigned a letter-to the waves while on his way to the front, m tho hope that it VO uld reach his aged parents, and he has had his wish gratified. . He is a son of Mrs 1< McNutt whose address is .are of ?Si?enOl^^ir Square ' X*T»*k~ The lettei was written on a- transport on 20th,on which date;tL^aS of Victoria wa» sighted. It" was thrown overboard enclosed in a bottle, and was ionnd on the beach near Port Fairy U-Dece P ber 9th > by Rupert Arnold, having thus been a score of days m transmission by tho sea. The finder a boy 12 years old, promptly posted it to the writer's mother whc> duly received it. By the courtecy of a TS el\? f + the / aJntly ' who « staying at the Metropolitan Private' Hotel it was shown to a "Colonist" last night. The letter is in perfect condition, and tho hope may be ex-I-ressed that • Corporal McNutt will be able to carry out his intention to entrust another letter to ocean carnage on his way back from the war.