LOST IN THE BUSH.
♦ ANOTHER CASE. [BY TEL-GRAPH. ] BtE_"H_iM, J-*ne 20. Information of a sad affair has been brought into towu. The facts as at present known appear to be thut one day last week a shepherd named James Whi'e, and a cadet named John Harris, went out mustering m the country at the back of Blairch Station. Owing to the fog or snow they lost their way, and wandered about for a day or two, until finally, having run out of provisions, famished with hunger ani exhausted with exposure, White was unable to proceed any further, and desired Harris to push on aud obtain help. Finding that it was useless io stop hy White unless both wt-re to perish, Harris pushed on, and succeeded in reaching an unfinished ' house on the Aw**.tea shearing reserve. Here he was found some time later by one of the Messrs Mowatt, in a thoroughly exhausted state, having no food, , and being unable even to light a fire. All that Mr Mowatt could gather was that White was on the hills, and that they ought to go out and search for him, ' which they did, and succeeded in finding him at a spot near Mount Horrible, some . 20 odd miles distant fiom Blairch Sta- j , tion- i
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 3
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213LOST IN THE BUSH. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 3
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