THE MISSING MAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 1 March 1902, Page 2

THE MISSING MAN.

FINDING OF BOAT.

Throughout the whole of yesterday the police were engaged searching for any trace of the missing man Mr George Wiles, who had gone out on Wednesday evening to bring in a boat which he had left on the beach inside the mouth of the Waipaoa river. It was thought possible that though the bar was very rough Mr Wiles might have got the boat across, and that it drifted out so that he would havo caught a. passing steamer. Yesterday afternoon Mounted Constable Doyle continued his search up the river, a; ( ii about two miles from the bar, near the mouth of the lagoon, lie found the b ias bottom upwards. Upon the boat being lighted, two oars wi re found in it. We are informed by S', rgeant Siddells that according to the iiif'.rmrf-.ion he received there were three oars in the boat, but that one oar being a id; weak : t had been jambc.l under the s>at. Wh,"i iho boat was found yesterday t!; i oar was '-till in that position. It seems strange that if, ns supposed, the boat had had a buffeting in an attempt to cross the bar and been capsized, that a loose oar should still be in it. Of course it might have floated under the boat, A diligent search was continued by Constable Doyle, but no further trace of the missing man was found, ° ;