THE MISSING PROSPECTORS.
(by telegraph.—press association.)
Invkroakgill, this day. News haß been received of tho missing prospectors on the Wesb (Joaeb. Gordon Harvey, who has arrived ab Invercargill, states that when he lefb his mates they had do tucker and only two charges of ammunition. He lefb on Sunday, strapped his clothes in a bundle and started to swim the river. When halfway across the flax holding his clothes broke, and they drifted out to sea. Harvey, after a great struggle, escaped a like fate, and, landing on the other side with only a handkerchief, for four days he travelled through dense bush and over rocks that girb the shore, covering himself at night with ferns. The weather was fearfully boisterous and cold most of the time, severe hailstorms falling for two days, and had he nob struck Treaeder's survey camp he would almost certainly have periphod. Considering the rough experience h<j is nob in bad condition, and though his feet are much swollen and his body torn by bush he determined to leave by steamer in search of his mates.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 5
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