Stratford News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 34, 10 February 1904, Page 2

Stratford News.

! SAFETY OT MOUNTAINEERS. (From our own Correspondent.) Tuesday evening. The three young fallows lost on Mount Egmonl have all turned up safely. ileape and Hornbluw enme out of live bush near Awatuna, arriving there about i! p.m. on Monday. Spcircer had previcw-sly guile to get food at i\ fiji'mhonKo he thought he saw in the distance, lie was mistaken, however, and the search parly had souietlillirully in finding liiin. Eventually Messrs. Lmxlon and Hume heard faint calls from a westerly direction, ami discoveivd him about three miles wesl of the lkuvsun's Falls House, to which they succeeded in getting Mm by about midnight. He was- in- a w'.'ilk state, and considrrusbly knocked about by his rough experiences in tlie scrub. All three are now fairly recovered. Incidents like the above show that some means should be adopted to ensure the safety of mountaineering parties. Those descending the mountain are not likely to go wrong until they regch the moss line, and guide posts with directions on them might easily he erected at a number of places where befogged parties would be pretty sure to strike them. Very good noiniitations have been received for tin- forthcoming Stratford rate meeting'. Fires are still breaking out in si artling sequence. Fortunately Stratford has been exempt, and with the appliances at the service of the local Fire llrigaide, who are well practised m the use of them to the best adviaii'tuge, them need he little lenr. A minor (.inbreak occurred !'||JS morning in a barn belonging to Air Taylor.