LOST IN THE SNOW.

Evening Star, Issue 10339, 12 June 1897, Page 2

LOST IN THE SNOW.

The search for the missing man William iGunn was continued on Friday by a large party of over twenty horsemen from Roxburgh, and a careful examination was made of a good deal of the country supposed to have been traversed by him. A sluice fork (which he was supposed to have been bring-' ing in), a tomahawk, a pair of mittens (said to have been worn by him at the time), and a bag oontaining a pick and hammer were discovered a few chains from where the horses had been feeding when found at the head of Shingle Greek; but beyond these articles there was no trace of the missing man's whereabouts. The party searched the huts at Campbell's and at Italian Gully, the Rip and Tear, Potters, and the surrounding country. On Saturday a party came from the Upper Waikaia, and on Sunday another party went out from Roxburgh. As thorough asearoh was made on each occasion as the snow would allow, but as there are drifts as deep as from 3ft or 4ft on the level and to Hum 40ffe to 50it in the gullies the work was amended with no small difficulty, more especially as the saoiv was not frozen hard enough to bear the weight in many places, and consequently the horses had to be tied up, the search being continued on foot. It is the opinion of maay old miners experienced in crossing the ranges that it is almost hopeless to look for the body now till' the snow thaws in the Bpring, or, if the body is in one of the drifts, till even later.

During the same storm Percy Farker, one of the Waikaia Junotion miners, suffered considerable hardship. He left the Junction late on Friday afternoon to go to Campbell's, intending to return the same evening. When he got to Parker's Hut at Campbell's, at 4 30 p.m., it was anowiug heavily but not drifting. It started, however, to blow and drift very heavily, and in a short lime ho found it impossible to with only a limited amount of provisions, and had great difficulty in getting peat in to make a fire. On the following Wednesday his brother went up and met him making his way down, happily nob very much the worse for his adventure.—' Mount Benger Mail.'