BLACKS PURSUED
THE MAWSGN SEARCH. ALLIGATOR EATS NATIVE, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT'. Received Oct. 15, 11.5 am DARWIN, Oct, 15. Describing the search for the Douglas Mawson women, a member of the Huddersfield expedition states that seven mounted men and three walking travelled from Arnheim Bay tc. ti.e Gulf of Carpentaria, and returned eight days later. They met a party of blacks at- Point Bradshaw, who informed them that the white women were at Caledon Hay, a distance of seventy miles. The horsemen went another thirty miles in .pursuit of a party of natives, but the blacks had them at a disadvantage, for they could swim across an ann, of the sea a mile wide, while the horsemen had to travel eight miles round bv Land. The constable in charge is satisfied that no white women have been there. The only casualty was that a native was eaten by an alligator in Arnheim Hay.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 October 1924, Page 5
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