A Much-Travelled Postcard.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 13 October 1906, Page 38

A Much-Travelled Postcard.

Some little time back we gave a reproduction of a postcard with an unusual history. On October 21, 1903, this card was placed in a bottle and dropped overboard by a Mr. Lacey from the barque Grassniere, while making the voyage from California to London, and, after drifting about 9000 miles, it was picked up at I’arengarenga, near the North Cape of New' Zealand, about two months ago, and handed to Captain Stein of the Northern S. S. Company’s Waitangi, who forwarded it to its address, "Miss L. E. Bloomfield. Oakfield, Witbington, Manchester.” By the last mail the captain received from Miss Bloomfield a copy of a Manchester paper referring to the card’s interesting voyage, and al-o a very nice letter of thanks, dated August 30th, from which we make the following extract: "Please accept my most sincere thanks for the trouble you have taken to forward me the wonderful postcard, which my cousin placed in a bottle and dropped into the sea, and which was found in such romantie circumstances. My cousin, who is now chief mate of the barque Sacora, told me about two years ago that he had dropped several cards into the sea, ad-dres-ed to me, and wondered if 1 would ever receive one of them. That forwarded by you is the only one that has reached Home.”