TELEGRAPH LINEMAN MISSING.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 222, 20 September 1888, Page 8

TELEGRAPH LINEMAN MISSING.

A mysterious Affair.

Search Party Oafc

(by tkleohaph—owk;cokbespondent.)

.RoTORnA, this day. The Rotorua telegraph linetnan, Henry Bushey, left Rotorua on horseback to inspect the line to Orakei-Korako on Monday morning, , He should _ have met the Taupo line-maia there in the evening. Nob turning up the Taupo lineman according ,'to regulations laid ■ down for them came right through to Rotorua rarriving here about 6 _p.ni. on' Tuesday. On reporting not Saving met the R torua' lineman, Mr Daiieey s suspicions M bo so'me.pbing being wrong were irh: medbately aroused, and he proceeded out at 8 p.m. and searched all niehb'till ben the following morning. Finding io tiar'«B of Bushey he returned quite puzzled bub this ia now ■accounted for by the fact that Bushey was advised by a friend to leave the inspection of the first ten miles for his return journey, as the country is rough and much torn about by water courses siuce the eruption. It is therefore thought ho went by the^Waio-/ tapu Road, lb was Mr Bushey s first trip alpng this section of the line. Mr Dansey infoiins me ttab he has avery high opinion of hiß lineman for steadinoss and general intelligence. ! Mr Bushey hfis ft wife and bhiee little boys herewho are natarally in a terrible state of atixietyr Avsearoh party of ten started out this morning;