HUTCHESON'S EXPLORING PARTY.
Mr David Hutcheson, the leader of the party sent out by the Governments of Otago and Canterbury, to survey and form the road to the West Coast, returned to Dunedin on Monday night, the work having been suspended for the present. The past twelve months have been occupied in foi*ming the road from the head of Lake. Wanaka to Burke River, nearly halfway to the West Coast. The work has been greatly impeded by excessively rainy weather, flooding the rivers and preventing supplies being brought forward. But for this, tho whole distance would have been completed. A man named
Lindsay, one of the party, formerly at Manuka Station, Lad been sent t? Haist Kiver for supplies shortly before leaving, but aot having returned, five men were sent to endeavor to find him, but returned without a trace of him. The runs token up- on the West Coast <Bffl now be stocked from Otago
by this totofa, IrHeh tl» t«y frequent crossing of rivwa. Mr Hutclieson has found an available ford over the Burke River, which he would soon have made serviceable. He will not give further particulars at present, as hia official report will be presented to the Government next week. <—' Brace Herald.'
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Evening Star, Issue 4010, 3 January 1876, Page 3
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206HUTCHESON'S EXPLORING PARTY. Evening Star, Issue 4010, 3 January 1876, Page 3
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