LOST IN THE BUSHFURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DEATH OF MR CALBRAITH.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 264, 16 May 1888, Page 6

LOST IN THE BUSHFURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DEATH OF MR CALBRAITH.

Jn Derembu List, after tno months' hard work canning out (J-cn eminent trig tune}' in thcdistiict fott} or iitty miles east of (JHjoine. Mi Fostei's paity rcachcfl No 50 trio .station, wheie they lemaincd some days. One of the party, John Ualbiaith, eldest son ot Captain Ualbraibh, of Onohunga, being done np and unable to keep on with the party, wished bo <jci\e up the work and get down to Ui.sbomo. So on Chiistmas morning, at pi\ o'clock, he staited alone, provided with ,i compass and twodajs" provisions for Moiiis'^ station, being told it was only halt a-day -. jouine) : but he ncvei 1 cached MonisV, nor has he been heard ot I since. The dnections gwen him weie to tollow a leading spur clown to theliungaioo i i\ ei , cioss it, ;md continue straight on la Monies station, the county beyond tho liver being de.->eiibcd at open and used ao sheep runs, easy to ua\et\sc,andthe distunes as about si\ oi seven nnlcs. The lest of the party stai ted the same day in quite a different direction. On the 23rd January, (.he suney pait> meeting another party from Opotiki were surprised that letter^ > scut by (Ulhraith had not come to hand, and by telegraphing found he had ne\cr i cached < lisborne. Search parties went out to look tor, but found no twice at all of him. They report that Morris's station, instead ot being opposite the trig station a few miles oil, is nearly two days' journey dow n the liver hist, and then five miles trum it : that the country, instead, of being an easy one to travel, was all eo\eied with \eiy tall, dense fern, koromiko, etc. : and th >t it would be imp smMo for a man in oood tra\elling foim, Irning a good slash hook, and knowing the countiy, to make his way to Moiris's in loss thiin two days, and it' he went stiaight on after eiossing the river as dueetod, he would take a much longer time to reach ,my station or road, it he e\cr could reach one at all. The tate of poor young Galbi tilth should act as a warning to suivey paities and otheis who arc engaged in the bush. It is always a dangerous tiling for oven a good bushman to attempt to maku his way alone through a country w hero thero are no tracks and with which he is unacquainted, and peisons who undertake to direct others through the bush should make sine that they know the country themselves, otherwise they may be sending them on to a certain and terrible death," such as that which there is now no reason to doubt has befallen this, tine young tellow, who left his comrades filled with the hope of soon rejoining his fuends, but only to lie down and die in solitude far away from human aid. His bones are hidden away in some secret) recess of the wilderness, neither of the search parties which were >«enfc out having; come aeioss tho slightest Unce of his tracks, Almost c-vory flower has moie sweet in ib than U>e honey-suckle. Protefcsor Tyndall has reported a white rainbow, and Lord Monteagle follows with the same observation.