Lost in the Bush.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2

Lost in the Bush.

(Per Press Association). Dpnedin. Pec. 16. At the inquest on Joseph Robertson, who perished after being lost in the bosh jn. Water ofLeith Talley, McDonald, who was with deceased, s,aid before starting on Sunday, Bth instant, they had. boiled water, oatmeal and some flour mixed. About 6 p.m., Robertsqn got tired but, and they slept under a bpsh, peeping off the ra?n as beat theypoqld. Jn. the morning Qobertspn said be did not know where they were, and wanted to go back up the gully. McDonald decid- , ed to follow the water. After Jpakiqg ( two rests he got on the tracjk., which led ; to a honse. Qe asked, the man for a cup ) of tea. The man said he bad no bread, j A* th<s man might think him a Joafer he ( went on, telling the man his mate was t in the bush. The man was a foreigner, \ and may not' hare understood nim. } On reaohing Clarke's store at Wood- . haugh he had something to eat. He did j not know what he told them at Clarkes', j as he was dazed. Clarke, followed him j to his honse,' when he told him all he i could. The jury returned a verdict to y the effect that Robertson came by his , death through exhaustion and exposure, t and added v rider that in their opinion * McDonald' ought to Jhave taken ' better steps afte^r hc f came out of the bosh to c have Rpber^on rescued. ,