ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

lost iv niK in. mi. (4m:Ar anxiety is felt herd for the safety of a young man named Frederick Joslin, .me! a l.ul u.nnciJ M.uk Hutton. The two left heie on Fndiy week on hoi-,ebick, a\o\vedly to pioceed to Kawlna, and \setV scon a few mile*, fioni here on that road, but h.-ue not as far as known heie bei>n lie.nd of .since. They had a, gun with thi'in and some ainmnnition, but only food foi a day's consumption. The Lid Hutton was to ha\e accompanied his sister and her family to Auckland on Monti ly last, anJ ho promised her on leaving to lutuin on the following lowing Tuesday, to assist in the packing up. His s^ter has since made lnquuies, and learned fioni the oideily fioin Kauhio, that tlie missing ones ha\o not lven seen or he.ud of there. The matter has boon lepoited to the police, and Captim Ga]>el and two constables ha-ve been since cndi'.nouiing to find some clue to their disappoai.iuce. It is surmised they may luxe got off their horses to shoot and so got lost in the dense and broken countiy between Hikurang.i .md Kawhia. As yet no clue ha.s been obtained. If they do not turn up veiy shortly I think the Go\eminent should employ hoinenatncs, who alone thoronglily know the countiy, to go m search of the missing lads. Joshn has f i lends at the Thames, and Hutton s sifter heie with whom he has resided for tome jeais, smce the deitli of his p.m-nts, i> in gieit distiess of mind, and has postponed going to Auckland, where she was about to join her husband, until some definite news is obtained of the lad.

L vv 1 1 n. The ini-sing ni-jn, Joshn and Hutton, ha\e tuiiu'il up; they weie met by Const.il)].> (loidon, who w.is in seaich of them on tlic Kiwlu.i ro.id. They bt.itc thuy uvrc at a Maori sottlonient on the Kawina inoi, and thf-y could not find their load tuck heio without a pmde, which they could not obt.llll until some natives were leuing on their own business. Their folly his caused no end of .uuiety, and some e\pensi>tu those who htvve had the trouble of looking for them.

PKOsPIUriN« IN THE KINC COUNTRY. The piospectors of the l'liongn Mineral Association, Messrs Barker and Dunn, together with a guide lo.we f >i the King rountiy to-day. The guide has engaged to t'ko them t<> a place whence som> <,'i>. kl >.|ii" niien-t cout.>iiiiii^ {^old uoicj luoiiu'ht in bv linn Mime two y '.v-> agn. It it to !)• h(i|)od he will npr.iin find thu spot, iind«i\ ilualiledisei)\erybein.ule. It.ippcn--that the \\ ang.mui pieisuian'si attack on Mr Wilkmtiouhoie originated bei > au>t» tin W.'ingainu prospectors were i»f o]iinu>n tluy only had a right fc> prospect the crmntiy, and tint the W.ukato people should be debaircd fiom the same jn ■ liege, but as-,wt them in their ittorn|)te ' mono; o!y at ihesiinp tune. Just so. —(Own Coiiespnndeut, Sept. I'ith.)