HARDSHIPS OF EXPLORERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1180, 29 November 1883, Page 3

HARDSHIPS OF EXPLORERS.

An Australian telegram states that A. E. Giles, stationmaster at Shackles Creek, reports that of the party which left to search for Readford's party, all except himself and a black boy perished from thirst. The names of the four victims were—Rees Hussey, George Phillips, Arther Phillips, and Constable Shirly, George Phillips has a brother whose. address is Wando Vale, New Zealand, The party got lost in the scrub, and dropped one by one. Giles and the boy walked about sixty mile 3 without food, and were thoroughly exhausted.

George Earnest Morrison, the Age special correspondent in New Guinea, has just returned to Cooktown, after undergoing great hardships. He reports baying failed to cross the island, He had to turn back when on the point of success. He pursued a north-easterly course from Port Moresby, and almost reached the dividing range when the natives assembled and showed signs of hostility. Attempts were made to conciliate them, but were useless, and Mr Morrison was speared in two places. The party consisted only of three white men, one of whom was useless from fright. The other man, with great resolution, brought Mr Morrison over a hundred miles to the coast. For eight days Morrison had no food, and Lyons none for nine days, Mr Morrison's wounds are now quite well.