SEARCH PARTIES OUT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12443, 5 March 1906, Page 3

SEARCH PARTIES OUT.

fSPKCIAL TO "THB PXESB.") WELLINGTON, March 4. Energetic measures have been taken, both on the Weefc . Coast and also at the Hermitage, to search for Mr Loir. It appears that Mr Low left Waihao on tno 20th ult., accompanied by Mr Alexander Graham. They camped high on the mountains that night, and next day Mr Graham accompanied him to Mildred's peak. Mr Graham had previously arranged, to ; return to VVaihao, and Mr Low went on alone. He should have reached tho bivouac at the foot of Mount Dβ La Beche the same night,' and the Hermitage next day. I\ir Graham and Mr Nicholson, manager of the "Waihao mine, went out in ecarch of tho missing man. Tho guides at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, have also gone out to look for him. It is quite unlikely ; however, that he will ever be seen again alive. There are four ways in which he may have met his death—(l) through filling into a hidden creva.sso, (2) through being struck,by a falling stone, (3) through a slip on the rocks or snow slopes of Mount De La Beche, and (4) through losing his way in «. etorin if the weather wae bad. Up to the present seaeon no serious accident has occurred in the Southern Alps—a tribute to the young New Zealanders, wlio have done most cf the pioneering work, and who had to learn their mountain craft by reading and their owns experience, without any assistance from old, climbers or professional guides.