SURVEY PARTY LOST.
Sydney, 19tli October. A surveying party, consisiing of Mr Lament Young, the Government geologist, and Messrs. U. W. Lyod, Towers, and John Slaply, lefl Bermagui for Clyde on Saturday. A boat was picked up on the bench forty miles north of Clyde on Monday morning, ami the same afternoon it was reported iliac four bodies had been washed ashore. The gravest fears arc entertained, as nothing has been hoard since of the party, and there is some fear of foul play, since bullets were found in the boat's thwarts, besides traces of the boat having been pelted with stones. Others suppose that Young went into the bush to search for minerals, and got lost. Mr Binnoy, of the Minerals Department, started on Friday to thoroughly investigate the country and coast for the missing men, and an active search is being made by others, although as yet unsuccessfully. A rumor was current among the miners of Bermagui that Snlivan the New Zealand murderer was among the party, bat this is believed to be untrue.
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Patea Mail, 30 October 1880, Page 4
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