STARVED TO DEATH.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 61, 16 February 1877, Page 3

STARVED TO DEATH.

Melbourne papers report the death under very sad circumstances, in the bush, of Thomas Stevenson, second son of Mr. Alexander Stevenson, of Messrs Stevenson and Elliot, carnage builders, King-street. The deceased Avas 16 years and 10 months old and avrs staying with his elder brother Archibald at their station, Bundilinee about 50 miles from Louth, New South Wales. At 4 o'clock on the morning of Friday, the Bth December, Thomas started on horseback for the post-office at Louth, and arrived there during the day. He set out for home again at daybreak on the folloAving Saturday, but instead of return: ing by the ordinary Avay he took Avhat he thought would be a short route. On Wednesday his horse arrived at the station riderless with the coat, scarf, and spurs of the deceased fixed to. the saddle. It Avas

then feared that he had been lost in the bush and his brother Archibald Math black trackers, started to search for him. The weather had been extremely hot, and it was known the missing young man never carried a water-bag The black trackers found that he had been wandering on the Debil Depil mountain, on ascending which and finding that he could not take his horse down to the other side, he had turned back from the purpose of getting round the base of the mountain. Instead of doing this, however he had gone back toAvards Louth, and darkness coming upon him, he had camped out, and hobled his horse. The trackers ultimately traced him to a lonely part of the bush, where on the Sunday folloAving they found his lifeless body lying in a composed manner between two logs. Two or three days after losing his way, and Avhen he must suffered severely from thirst it would seem that he had become resigned to his fate and prepared himself for death. Having taken off his coat scarf and spurs and fixed them on his horse, leaviug that animal to find its own Avay home, he had pi aced the tAvo logs on a track and laid down between them, with his head resting on a cross piece at one end, and thus expired. His body Avas conveyed to the station and there buried.