A DISTRESSING STORY.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 October 1869, Page 5

A DISTRESSING STORY.

The Otago Dally limes of October 4th, states : —“ At Tapanui, Captain M'Kenzie has for some time had a man in his employment, whose work was to fell timber in the bush. This person lived all alone and utterly absent from anything like society. Some time ago, while pursuing his occupation, he was crushed by the fall of a dry tree. His condition was pitiable, for one of his arms and one of the small bones of his leg, were broken, and his left side completely paralysed. No assistance was at hand, and the poor maimed fellow had to drag his weary body to his hut in a condition that made the|slightest motion agony. By sticking his axe in the ground he succeeded in reaching the hut, a distance of nearly a mile from the scene of the accident. But his tortures were not over, were indeed but begun. For eight long days he lay, weak and exhausted, and almost dead of starvation. His spirits were failing; he believed himself doomed, and was fast sinking into a fata! legarlhy, when a loud cooey struck upon his ears. It was the bullock driver come for a load of timber. The poor fellow was saved, and is progressing favorably.’’