STRANGER THAN FICTION.
' ■» A story comes from South Africa which is worthy of being the groundwork of a story in one of the servant-girl weeklies, so utterly unlikely *s the incident on which it turns. The hero resided in Grahamstown, South Africa, and the heroines — there were two of them — in England. " Both were young, and one was beautiful," and they had names between which there was a great phonetic similarity, such aa Nina and Mina. Herein is the suggestion for a pretty coDaplication. The young man loved Nina, amd wrote to her, asking her to come out to Africa and share his heart and home. A favourable reply reached him, and aft-sr come negotiations the young lady sailed for the Cape, and in due time arrived in Grahamstown. But, alas ! when the expectant bridegroom came to greet his bride Jie found that it was Mina and not Nina who had turned up. The moral would seem to be that capital letters aro deserving of more attention than they generally receive.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6161, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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171STRANGER THAN FICTION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6161, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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