NO HOPE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2033, 27 March 1913, Page 3

NO HOPE.

OF FINDING ME BINGHAM ALIVE

PKB PBES3 ASSOCIATION.

Taihape, March 26. The search party. ..which set out from Ohakuno last night to .look for Mr Bingham journeyed a mile upstream and camped until daylight. The party was expected back about noon to-day but at 7 o'clock no word had been received from them. Waters and Shubert are not much the worse for their experiences, and loft for Auckland last liight. Mdlle Coche (not Coates, <as previcMs'ly wired), is a resident of Auckland. She is improving, and is well on the road to recovery, but it will be some time before she" is able to get about again, owing to the injuries to her feeb and legs, which are vorv badly swollen.

Hopes of finding Eingham alive have been abandoned. One search party returned from the mountain this evening, but they report no traco or the missing man. Th<3 party searching along the stream where Miss Ooche says she last saw Bingham has not yet returned.

Mdlle Coche had no food from Sunday morning until three o'clock this afternoon, and during most of the time she was wet through. There is no doubt that if mademoiselle had not been of wonderful strength and °reat presence of mind sho would have sucwJncn are in a shocking state are climbed, as it is feared that her" feet frostbitten. ' „„ ' Auckland, Marcli 26. Iho young men Schubert and Waters who were among the party lost on Ruapehu, arrived back in Auckfrom the effects of the misadventure land to-day. Both are still suffering They -are unable to walk without much pain, and have contracted bad colds. Miss Coche, who is a lady of means, has resided in Auckland for the past nine years, with the exception of the time spent in periodically visiting her parents, who reside in Paris. Leaving Auckland on Thursday last, it was her intention to attempt to join any mountaineering party which might bo made up to leave Ohakune for the purpose of ascending Ruapehu. It was her first attempt at mountaineering. ■