Lost in the Bush: a heartreading story.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 37, 14 January 1885, Page 4

Lost m the Bush: a heartreading story.

; ;^^,!r ui^« fc vPP^si ) ond lent1 ent of tlie ; jSydney. Herali writes under date' IDeccitibev An inquest was ilipld'Vestei-drty before Mr F. W. iVyner, coroner, • concerning the | death of ■ Ly.dia ..Goq^eiy an injfant aged' six months, 'who clicd of | oxi^osiire ; and stavyatioir m : the bush.. jfler filther was working miles away I from^]pme,;and the.mmher.left three I children, the eldest eight years, and i t;he(yo;ungest;&wo,/,yeai£ ;of/agef m, ; the hvi^.andi started Wjith the, /baby," I a boy six'years of age, and a .dgg,, : for tlie nearest neighbbm^iboujt; four : miles { ' distant ,,, . through : : a terrible rough country, to, get ,a, , messjenger to go to Turn ut for,,.th.i3 ; si<?k;ichild. The motherjlpstithe^ackjKnd: wandered about for five days;,, the first night she was out m a -heavy,, rainstorm, and on the second, days her i feßcapfi.'nnilik.'.faile^i, so, .that she was obliged to kill the, xlpg ; %o nourish ' I the baby with ite-bloodjiiwhile she; j and the boy ate a little} .of the', flesh \ I raw. On the tliird : iijght ■ the - (baby j ! died for wan;t,{fi£.!nQurishn%enft and] the mother and.spn campe.il without; either fire or wood. On the fourth [ morning .Khel:. niQther..!,, carried the; corpse of the baby until the little! boy fell do win Exhausted, >aM Having! no- other, hope of procuring help, she then left Jiim near a waterholei to mind the dead child, whilst shei id" ikid/ assis feiice, 'Mxti. for'it vfo idays- siie '/iwaiidere'd' . m the] bush until striking a Chinaman's hti#* fete- S^oUencHirv/whii^ ie^ery! assistance was ---given her. The ''OnainAfoten J iriforined 'h • / EWr i 6p'e^ar 'ffiggcfr^lW KVed yev'er'arhi'ilek a<r.sty, "a'ritl'^hjey'b^h-'^tarted ou't^ feeaklt m I^ifey^'camped on the "inountiii'ns'o^e tiUgM/kitf}} 'the-"ntjxt •: 'flay 'they -fo'iMd-tlie' -boy 'Fteddy' SitL "thig -tttf a-i ; bck, •keebittg -tlie" riites-oi" "Ifliedea'd bbciy'^f'tfee 1 ' babyl lVi They.-'ga^e-the jibor little fell&w' feonVfe-fiibd •after #hich'-:the - Oftiriam'a-n' ! dirtied "theboy-'-afid l the-' : diggef/'iTi^lor, | ■'brought tWe delatl b l od^ l sev ! ercil ll 'miiels ! to ' the 1 ' nearer i/Jiii't, 1 - and 'siibsciqiieWtl jr - 'ihey 'tooJf tlie'iridtht^ a^nd boy hsml, ■'afVer /j £t -'■H'e'ek" ! s i 't)erribl^ •privat^ttil, suffering, and eit'JMfeUtfe/ 1 '- 1^ ' illj "»«* j