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Show A Belated Newspaper. A curious instance of delay in delivering deliver-ing a newspaper by post has been brought to light at the general postofnce. Some alterations are being made in the newspaper department, and on the removal re-moval of an iron girder which had rop-' ported the roof a few papers blackened with age were discovered. One was a a copy of the Wakefield Journal for Aug. 17, 1866. It was addressed to Buckingham Road, De Beauvoir Town, and as it was posted long before the halfpenny stamp was invented it bore the old red penny stamp. The paper had evidently reached London "in course of post," and by some unexplained chance had got into the hiding place where it had lain all these years. It has now been sent for delivery, but whether the addressee has been found after the long interval does not appear. Perhaps he or she, like the paper itself, has in the meantime died; at any rate, the Wakefield Wake-field Journal has no place in recent press directories. Blackburn (England) Times. |
