A LOST CHILD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1892, Page 5

A LOST CHILD.

_!dl_ search lor the lost child ab Henderson iinj proved fruitless. It-will be remembered that a piradigger named John Newaid repotted „_ his child, about 3. years dm, was missing. At fir3t the parents und"mighbom searched the vicinity without imcesa. Afterwards Constable Kelly Mt out to make inquiries and institute a fuller search. Ultimately the party increased to from 150 to 2)osearchers, the number being increased ly tho Auckland Naval Artillery and a dchcb_ent of liberty men from H.M.s. Tanranga.hrho volunteered to assist. The whole' country was thoroughly searched and the banks of tho creeks examined, while a dam was also drained, bub without the discovery of tho missing child. A Mrs Campbell, who retitles about a mile and a-half in tho opposite direction from the road taken by the little wanderer, states that she thought she heard a child crying, bub on going outBide could not see one. Little footprints were, however, discovered about" half a mile from her house. It seems that on the morning the child was lost, Mr Newald took tho little ono out Rith him, bub it began to cry, and noted to go home, as its feet were sore. Ha carried it to - within 200 feet of the tase and watched it till out of sight. W i returning at 12 o'clock he found that the little one had nob reached home. It is mj to bo feared that the child has *r wandered into the bush and got lost "asfailen into one of the creeks.