LOST IN THE SNOW.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, Last Nieht. A PARTY who ascended Mount Egmont yesterday found the body of Southwood, who went up last April and dii , . not return. The body was found in a good state of preservation on the top of the mountain, lying across two boulders at the foot of a precipice, about twenty feet high. One leg was thrust out and the other bent under the body, as wae also one arm. One aide of the face was crushed, as if smashed by a fall. The body had the clothes on, even to the hat, and the flesh was in such a good state of preservation that the body could not have been exposed to the air more than two days, and must have been covered with snow, which had melted off it. Southwood was a nephew of Mr Smith, draper, at Wellington, and came over from Australia about two and a-half years ago. He began business as a canvasser for the Government Insurance Department, and was engaged in the Wellington District up to within a month or so of the time ho wai lost. His aee was about 25, and he was unmarried. His life was insured for £300 in the office for which he canvassed.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2
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214LOST IN THE SNOW. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2
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