A NIGHT IN THE SNOW.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1281, 17 September 1886, Page 3

A NIGHT IN THE SNOW.

(From a Correspondent.) Cambrians, September 14. A girl about 13 years of age, dangh’er of Mr P. Kenny, of St. Bathans. and living in domestic service with Mr John Ewing, Vinegar Hill, went for a ramole on Sunday evening last at the foot of the Dunstan Ranee, the foot spurs of which almost reach to Mr Ewing’s residence. At dusk she not having returned, and a heavy snowstorm coming on, Mr Ewing and some of the men in his employment started in search in case she might have got bewildered in tho storm. As night advanced, and no traces of her could he found, lights were kept burning on all tbe more spurs around Mr Ewing’s claim with the view of guiding her home. Monday dawned, how. ever, without any tidings of her. With daylight her tracks in the snow were picked up and followed along the foot hills past /Cambrians. By this time the snow had disappeared and the tracks were lost. As the day advanced, and it became generally known that she was missing, parties from St. Bathans and Cambrians gradually joined in the search, as it was fea-ed some accident had occurred to her, A contingent of boys from the Cambrians School also joined in the search in the afternoon. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon word was passed round that a telegram had been received from Blacks to the effect that she had turned up at Drybread at daylight in the morning none the worse for her weary night's tiamp, beyond being severely fatigued and half frozen.