STUCK UP BT A RIVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 27 June 1891, Page 3

STUCK UP BT A RIVER.

Ixtraoxdbary Story of Baduranee. '", 1 __ Melboubn'e, June 17. "~ S? ne manager efMr Molesworth 'Balloo Downs station in % '~~ r Qaeensland has furnished the t gentlest man with an extraordinary record of >- 4 endurifefon the part of a laborer, ' - ~ * who waF?bn his way to the station. - „*" The riwnr-whose name iB P. Green- = ftom Tbaragemjndah, 'S /JbrVßalloo Downs in search of i work.~ On the road he met a black boy firom named Dicky */><■ 'who was mail, and they $\ camped together in the rain. Dicky £ either wrongly directed him, or the '' - the boy's direcas to the proper track to take. the man on reaching a ■driver decided-to try andtaosßJ*. ;2s got pvs? the first Channel' with some S-J. -pjfficulty, and camped on a sandhill, gp -"" attending to cross the next channel * onthe following morning, but the VaEefroseso high during the night thairhei failed is the attempt, and ' 1 ..remain bu the fflSnd tuftp*Blieved. This re hef~ did not come until he had been V'jj jusl A forty-five days without fire or ~ r -S cooked food and, strange to say, he sfirrifed the terrible exppsure and \- j privations >hioh he experienced. aL Daring the forty-five days the only JP^ '** focd he had was forty raw fish, and grass, while during last three weeks he only had three llp-lieggs and-grass. Unfortunately he not Veigh'edwhen brought to the k 5.~ butafter he had improved % 'oonriderafc, his weight was to\be Bst 81b3, his He was unable to alstroke, and when leaving merely bad-lib of flour and an. equivalent of sugar and tea. man's story with regard to dates as true and reliable, bethe parts relating to tne<meet-

of Greenwood tally exactly with the station records. Greenwood kept a diary of his experiences, which has been published in the Argus, and hears oat his statement. The eggs were those of ducks and other hirds, and the grass was a kind of chickweed. He suffered greatly from cold.