A SWAGMAN'S HARDSHIPS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2

A SWAGMAN'S HARDSHIPS.

Komi: time ago .1 ni.in n um-d Whitcinm, of middle ago, left Taupo to walk to Koit ( Jalatei, on the E i*t C'oa^t. lie took his swag on lm back .iii'l --et out over the countiy, but, like the lmjonty of people who try to shorten then jminoy liy fnoll^hly taking a ne.u cut, lie 10->t lu-i way, and for fmutuni dij's w.indcrcd about through the w ilderne^. 110 li.id \ciy little in hi-* hwajj with winch to Miitain life, and night after night ho was obliged to lie out e\f)osed to Uu 1 isun andse\Dic fioits prevalent m th.it ])Tit of the country. Ho finally succeeded in 1 caching Ohinemntu, wheio lie aimed wc.ik and enificiatcd. Ho was taken in chujro l»v some of the residents, whr> ticatjd him with every kindness, and had him accommodated in the local hospital. Imiiiediatuly on his aiiMdl at Jiotoma lie lodlc a \eiy hearty meal, and this «lo»s not spcui to ha\« agreed with him. Ho w!\>< -out on to Cambridge by thu iii-<tnictions of the (Jo \ eminent on Tuesday night, and was taken on bv yesteiday'h train to the Auckland Hospital. He is in a \ erv pitiable condition and is unable to speak