THE FINDING OF HUGH COCKRELL

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 561, 16 July 1909, Page 6

THE FINDING OF HUGH COCKRELL

: - FURTHER iPARTICULARS. </'/ :}:'■■:'] ...: " Our Otaki correspondent states that tho condition' of' Mr., Hugh Cockrell,' who Tas lost ; in Iho'Tararua-RauEes,,;is satisfactory, •. but, so far, -only'his relatives are: allowed'- to.; > - see him, the doctor having : ordered.completo rest;''' From' information-.supplied- : by one.'or , . the searchers who were out'looking'for.,mm, it- is understood '--that:'' Cockroll was ;in a very exhausted' condition/ when discovered, and that ho was much: ; knocked * about owing to tho rough natureVbf.'t-hecountry,,..The.in/... formant also states'that thoso experienced m bush'life were .cpntinu'ally coming ' acros» ~, various search parties who had also lost their■way.' CbckrellVmust. bavo wandered many miles, and'lia'd-practically-kept on. the snow . . lino'for some considerable time; In convoy- ■ ing him across the river, 1 one of his rescuers, , Mr 'Fraser, was swept oft his feet' by- tin . , ~, current, but; 'fortunately,;;no;serious.cottse., /.- quences ensued. '//.?:.'...-,//",. , '. The police iliore have r received particulars from Constable : Sathorloy/im regard j totthj v. matter. The young man was found about , , six miles up the Waiotaru River-from where ~» he went -into the bush. Ho was, very weak,* and so was taken down -the river, about. six miles,'and put to-bed at one-of the busß camps. Next morning/at .about 4.odock, tho constable and. Mr, ■• Harold-.\C!ockrell left Otaki to bring him back. vThey found: him much worse thau : 'when' they left. bun, nayinc practically, lost-the'use of his legs .bo- . low the knees. 'They reached, homo about .4 ~.; . p.m.,, having had , to' caVry ~Cockell .abouf , , uvd-niilos.^n'a stretcher. .