Terrible Sufferings of a Prospecting Party.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Invehcaiigill, May 10.. The police have received a telegram, stutinu that Kelly, one of the missing WtHt Court prospectors, was found alive yesterday ten miles west of the Waiau mouth, in an exbaunted stale, Evans, the other member of the party, was drowned in the Wairauraitiri river several days ago, while attempting in m exhausted state k cross ihe stream on n fallen tree, Kelly followed the river'a course up till he came to a 'rough sh-ep bridge, by which he got across.. There is a hut there, and fortunately it contained sc'me food, He remained there somo duys, and' was then compelled by hunger to return to tho beach, where be was lound in a terrible Btate of nhaustion about twelve- miles beyend Wtiiau by Constable Miller and Mr Duucan MoPherson, surveyor, . Evans had only been about a year in the colonies. He was brother to the manager of the Round Hill Bluicing Company.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4716, 11 May 1894, Page 3
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164Terrible Sufferings of a Prospecting Party. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4716, 11 May 1894, Page 3
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