THE MISSING TOURIST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8442, 15 May 1907, Page 3

THE MISSING TOURIST.

LITTLE HOPE OF HIS BEING DISCOVERED ALIVE. By Telegraph—Press Aasocaition. WELLINGTON, May 14. The Superintendent of the Tourist -Department has received a telegram afrom the Department's agent at Queenstown giving the following particulars in connection l with the disappearance of the missing tourist, •whose case was referred to on Friday:—"On April 6th . a man named Frederick E. North, from America, called to see about walking to Te Anau over the Burley track from the Greenstone. I gave him all the information I could, and told him it would be impossible for a stranger to make the journey without a guide, and I advised him to telephone to Guide Burley, at Glenorchy. He called again in the afternoon, and said that the guide's fee of £1 per day was too much, and asked if I would let him know if any others were going to make the journey. On the 18th of April North went to Ellin by Government sieamer. It was not for some time after that that I knew he had undertaken the journey. He took with him only one rug and pro--visions for about live days. He had .no gun nor compass, only a map of l the district. Ho left his American address in case he was not again heard of, and promised to write to his landlady from the first post office he reached." It was also mentioned in the telegram that the police i searched Martin's Bay for North without result, and they are now searching along the Te Anau track. Very little hope is entertained of the missing tourist being discovered alive.