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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1930, Page 3

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OLD LADY’S DEATH

TRAGEDY OF THE WEST COAST RECALLED.

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The death has occurred of Miss Margaret Howitt, aged ninety, authoress, and sister of the poineer, Alfred Charleton Howitt, who discovered the remains of the Australian explorers, Burke and Wills. Mr Howitt v/as drowned while participating in an expedition to Lake Brunner, New Zealand.

The death of Mr Charleton Howitt occurred in 1863. He had been engaged in cutting a foot track over the Teremakau Saddle on the West Coast. A rough blazed line had been cut as far as Lake Brunner, and the jn”ty was engaged in cutting lines around the lake, intending to continue the track down the Arnold River to the Grey River.

Mr A. Dudley Dobson, who is now residing in Christchurch, was given the task of surveying that portion of the West Coast, and his vessel, in which

he sailed from Nelson, was wrecked at the mouth of the Grey River on September 13, 1863. The first news that Mr Dobson received when he got ashore from the residents in That portion of the Const-—three Europeans—was that Mr Howitt’s party, with the exception of one man had been drowned in Lake Brunner.

The party had gone eeling and the craft had capsized. The survivor made a raft and spent two days in searching for his comrades. Then he made his way alone down to the coast and reported the disaster. It was a year after this that Mr Dobson discovered Arthur’s Pass, which was named after him.

Air Howitt had,' in 1 0 1 discovered the remains of Burke and Wills, the two Austrian explorers, who died whon attemtpting to explore the Gulf of Carpnnetaria by a noverland route fro— Melbourne. He found the sole survivor of the party, King, and after ' ringing him ban 1 - to Melbourne, went out and brought back the bodies f’url-e and w’Us, reaching Adelaide in December, ,1862.

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