A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13378, 20 March 1909, Page 8

A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

The Bluff correspondent "Otago Daily Times' reports 'the.Jjfe lowing from Stewart Island:—AT-Djj&b. teriovts discovery has just boon repr)**JM|; from tlie vicinity of the Marray '-s§Bs and' Saddle Point, on the Fovcaux «Wg of Stewart Island. An island' fm*£& was round in tho neighbourhood; S_g!*p ing. Ono of hor orow, an went on shore in tho dinghy. ploring about ho discovered a w V-*fJfl individual wandering a.*n<> 0 *$R_j| rocks. On being conununicated -**_____j___p tho stranger was. found- to bo a jjjs||ij cigner, who, seemingly, did not i_|*!______K'stand a word of English, Attar igfa timo it was discovered that 06- Wt_fo a Frenchman. To all appoai_noej|p man was in depth of distroiM, regards food and clothing— was found ho was collecting 6n_lft§|| for his subsistence. Tho Aus*mn igg| enabled to make him understand a "SH words, but not sufficient to cxptomtflgi; circumstances. What he could "JWWf*gj stand was that tlve strangvr was »*j|||| need of assist; nee, and' that mainly desirous of being left a J on * > deed, "ho seemed to recent intcrf<*■*""*»«■& and therefore thc cutter pcopl* -".JgpFhim as they found him. No one on ts%--island knows any tiling about neither as to who ho is or cumstances under which he came - where found. Tho matter was **&s**ss: to tbe police, aud nodo-übt steps Will taken to nrobo tho mystery is*"*,. '-_,'**.