THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS CURRIE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 872, 10 October 1871, Page 2

THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS CURRIE.

As. already Reported by telegraph, the j usually quiet district of West "j Taieri, Otago, was thrown into a state of painful excitement on Monday by the report that Miss Currie, the teacher was musing. From the acpount given m the "Otago Daily' Times " it seems ' r r that Miss Currie was to have.spent ' Sunday night at the house 5 of Mr William i Snow, O utram. A bed Was made up for her in the sitting-rooin, and Mr Snow locked the front door before going to bed. Miss Currie took nm off her bonnet, jacket,. &c„ j jn Mrs Snow's room, and about J li o'clock Mr and Mrs Snow bade her good nighfc. She then seerned well and in 0 good spirits. On rising the following (Monday) morning, they found Miss j Currie was missing, and that her bed (| had not been occupied. She had evidently, gone out; by the front door;, which was found unlocked* though-Mr Snow's brother, who had sat up writ- ] ing till a late hour, had not heard her I go out. Footprints were traced to a deep part of the river, and were after* , wards found' to correspond exactly j with a boot belonging to her. Miss' ' ! Currie had relatives in Dunedin, one jof whom, a brother, Jias ; been in very I feeble health lately, arid she was Very : anxious about him, having been several times heard to say that she had a pre. sentiment that he >was dying, and that, she had a good mind to start off ta I town on foot to Bee him. The river was carefully and unremittingly dragged throughout Monday.and next day, but no trace of the-body could be found. A party Of some twenty of the settlers also searched the ranges, in consequence of a report said to'have been brought I by some schoolchildren to the , effect ' 5 that they' had seen a female, partially dressed, wandering about there. No trace of her, however, could be found; and from the fact of her foot-prints being clearly traced tothe river bant, and not going away from it again, it is generally believed that it is in that' ■'■ direction that the solution of her disappearance must be sought.