TRAGIC STORY
MEN ON GOLD RUSH lobt in ■ loneLy SPOT. NAIROBI (Kenya), A tragic story of the latest African gold rush, cfilminating in the death of one man and the disappearance of another, reached here a few weeks ago. . When the first news of the discovcry of a reef was learned at Nairobi, tb^ee me,n— two. farmers and a former Nigerian railway engineer — set out in a car for South Kavirondo, on the horders of Tanganyika, where they thought a reef might exist. After some days the two men returiied "td V^here they had left their car" afid their conipanion, only to find that beth had disappeared. Nothing had been left for them except one shot-guH. There was; no food, but the stranded; paid- decided to walk the 100 miles of uninhabited and traclcless wilds that separated them from the nearesb -civilised place — Misu. They arrived safely and then decided to; push oii to Misumu, where one of them died on arrival. Nothing was known of- the third man's fate. According to another message the m,an vdio vanished in the bush wsis Dr. Gharles Hickey, a eoffee planter, while the man who died at -Kisumu was Captain Kenneth Savage, whose wife and family live at Croydon, Londom
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 2
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207TRAGIC STORY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 2
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