LOST ON THE RANGES.
A TERRIBLE PATE. [By Telegraph.] * Blenheim, May 20. Information of a sad affair has been brought into town. The facts as at present known, are as follows One day last week a shepherd named James White, and a cadet named John Harris, went out mustering in the country at the back of the Blairch Station. Owing to the fog or snow, their way, and wandered about fora day or two until finally, having run out of provisions, famished with hunger and exhausted with exposure. White was unable to go any farther, and desired Harris to push on and.get help. Finding that it was useless to stop by White, unless both were to perish, Harris pushed on and succeeded in reaching an uninhabited house on the Awatere shearing reserve. Here he was found some time later by one of the Messrs Mowatt, in a thoroughly exhausted condition, havlng'no food, and being unable even to light a fire. All that Mowatt could gather was that White was on the hills and that they must go out and search for him, which they did, and succeeded in finding him at a spot near Mount Horrible, some twenty odd miles distant from Blairch Station. Harris, though very weak, is expected to recovei in a few days.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2882, 21 June 1882, Page 2
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216LOST ON THE RANGES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2882, 21 June 1882, Page 2
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