A STRANGE MEETING.
J Atriericans, 'ti'bft; In'^oq^nj 7 : £%^)j I ,Te,legraph chtoßiclesua^retoiriaible' «oet»e i et {tisNorihumbeYland ■A'v«Queihfatal, { <'- > A ! pwty of>n«wly- l ar>itea r !AlntexoS(wme t with an lijnglish mebd ,who natt,/wjl^u=to j see him. ~The conversation, between the j- two naturalFy Hnftedl'baolc to the \ru c Federalfdescriibed som^of h^is'a&venMire* and tow at one place the opposing I soldiett used to' works- sos nskr£*aob. other, - v « injr thftJitrendhe! a tflat^hey ,were. a))le t^,. enfeage in.^ajßersAtion, l > andy imrreptttiousry 1 ' exctfa'tfg^' t«bacco c exactly the,, same^<opndition. But:, hr' I do^inuedj ihe most iwrfijibSS ?^%>p "I h» , eyertaade was aaßmwrpa^ptjftlquuiin* , for a'^oundy<<£ tobaccoj to which the Confeddrato' added a curiously carved * yftyfaVt mpfi^.o (Thßtiißipeelihßahacl^ept >. sinoei. becsase hairfigMfled it.nn*tha p itobaooo /as.'ih)tyirig;aare(lih'l(rrai|ei})iifor ,t Bomehow.'orwtaer.bi^flßpeHdtof&cftK^d c tsotne tobhowHtot h^ti*sßeHMS» J du^6tity I ofr" the weed.r- aWd'oraeredW< n '' 1 6o lif1 ife t 6ort !» himSelficoDCerninl i^'SM^hU^uld r regain his post a akirmi^'c^oiirfea, and c * h,ILh ,1L5 laIt ? rho ; ! T llSviniibi9l , t»??'t »??' ; Pl^ wu - •killlad;7AttMß ndintr* 1 wai'BuhTJ&rnt ? AifieS^ 1 -with *'S i ftr anSr^S. ,f %Ke"hi»d'b'BeS4iSte'ni6g-t&^l=oTßpt:wlth f considerable tnwtipnj' interrupted, with, "Exouse me, though I am a strqngerto , y»u- but didn't tsti South'tnf br M' yott thattheqainitie'wasfoVbis'mtW'daughter, who was down with' fever ?•' *< Yes, said 3 thfc other. " And didn't ,th«f Northeroer 1 say that Jus little girl,was ill of fever 400. J but'h.e would share he> medicine withih* ether - lictl© »one,i' evon wifchotitf' tho a tobacco ?''/ " Why,- yei," cried the jprigiha! , < narrator^ " I believa he did, «nfl tfiat »wat r m^'V " And I was the, Southerner," criod the other ; " and her* is my .daughter 8 whose life you helped to save, and here* 8 one of my grand'Childrea,. with 'Her." I The Englishman -who was present and . who sends th» account of ttta im^Ttihg to i the 'Telcgrapb^saysi that, tbewwa» r >4hen such a scene of hand-shuking, introductions, and congratulations , aa voiua^ Jitva m m^mi W» 9tbar thjnf Ih« company niUkn baeif^Slttnflftia c Bedlam. The Northerner ,had also » the ,embraceJof/tfiefttf6 women who had never aeen ; eachl otbeif Kfef dte, Mi whose i. early lives had « so i closely touohed, wa» * Twalrarly^ffeotißg.^iM l od4^tbiofewe j- should meet each otb§rso far-from home. I and r in England;} i^ f lAdM>m "God blesstEnglandforifc,.Bfcy I/|replied
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10707, 1 September 1896, Page 2
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365A STRANGE MEETING. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10707, 1 September 1896, Page 2
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