DISTRESSING CASE.-A SETTLER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN THE WHARE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1667, 22 June 1875, Page 3

DISTRESSING CASE.-A SETTLER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN THE WHARE.

The Mercer train yesterday "brought down Mr Alexander Scott, a West Pnkekohe settler, whose case illustrates the hardships to which our settlers in scattered dis--17 I »™ v exposed. It appears that Mr hcott lived alone in a whare on his land, where he was accidentally discovered by some neighbouring settlers lying in an exhausted and unconscious state, having evidently been taken so ill that he was unabie to crawl to his nearest neighbour, who lived a considerable distance off. How long he had been in this condition it is impossible to say, but there is little doubt that had he not fortunately been discovered, he would have been beyond hope of recovery. Even now the unfortunate man is in a very precarious state. No time was lost in conveying him to Mr Godkin's hotel at the Pnkekohe station where he receved every attention until the train arrived and he was sent on under the care of the guard, Mr Page, and conveyed ts the hospital. [Since the above was in. type, we learn tha^ although he received ev< ry attention, he died Oj two o'clock this mormug.]