A MISSING TOURIST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 16 May 1907, Page 3

A MISSING TOURIST.

I'ross Association. WELLINGTON yostorday. The Superintendent of the Tourist Department lias received a telegram from the Department’s agent at Queenstown, giving particulars connected with the d isappearanco -of the missing tourist, whose case was referred to on Friday: “On the 16th I April a man named Frederick E. North, from America, callod to seo about walking to To Allan, over the Hurley track'from the Grconstono. I gave him all the information I could, and told him it would bo impossible for a stranger to make tho journey without a guide. 1 advised him to telephone to Guide Hurley at Glonoreliy. lie called again in the afternoon, and said that the guide’ fee of £1 por day was too much, and asked if I would let him know if any otlirs were going to mako the journey. On the 18th April North went to Elfin by Government steamer. It was not. for some time after that I know he had undertaken the journey. He took with him only one rug and provisions for about five days. Ho had no gun, no compass, and only a map of the district. Ho loft his American address in case ho was not again hoard of, nnd promised to write to his landlady from the first post office ho reached.” It was also mentioned in the telogram that the police searched Martin’s Hay for North with (pit result, and they are now searching along the To Anau track. Very little hopo is entertained for the missing tourist being discovered alive.