SNOWED UP.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 40, 15 August 1895, Page 2

SNOWED UP.

AN ADVENTURE AT WAIOHINE. ONE MAN BEPORTED DEAD. (Ow Own VorrttpondenU.) _. Gabtbbton, This Day. Five man engaged on a bash-felling contract on tho Tararna UHU, named Lodder W. Smith, Job Saliabnry, and Hobman (2), wore snowed np on tho hills, and two of them have jußt got back. Search parties are out. The bnsli-follera were short of food, and went over the ranges to tho WaiohineTotara Flat, with gnns and one dog, in Beaten of pigs on Tuesday morning. They were caught in a snowstorm and lost thoir way. The two Hobmans tried to find their camp by a short cut, the other three keeping to the stream. The two parties never met. Lodder was knocked np, and Smith and Salisbury struggled on % few hundred yards farther before they gave in. They took shelter in some scrub, and started off early in the morning and reached ICnutaen's house, where they got food and clothes and rested two hours before going on to Groytown. They told Knutsen their mate. Lodder was behind, and asked him to give Lodder some " tuoker " if ho oame in. A party went ont from Grey town to Boareh for the missing 1 men yesterday afternoon, and returned unsuccessful this morning. The party went ont again at daybreak, and a report hasreaohed here that Lodder's dead body has been fonnd. 1 ho two Hobmans have not yet been heard of. Gekttown, This Day. Salisbury and Smith are under the doctor's care suffering from colds through the exposnre, and cannot accompany the parties to show whore they left 1 odder, who, being unfit to travel, is almost sure to have been frozen to death B. and B. Hobman returned to-day at noon in an exhausted condition. Loader has not yet been found.