TRAGIC FATE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1929, Page 5

TRAGIC FATE

OUT-BACK IN CANADA. (United Press Association—-By Electric telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Oct. 3. Sympathetic interest had been aroused by messages from Canada throwing fresh light on the tragic fate of three English explorers, named, Hoin .y (the son of the cricketer of that name), Christian, and Adlard, who perished in the Canadian hinterland in circumstances recalling; the fate of Captain Scott. Adlard.’s • father is head of a London printing firni. and he has just received a letter from Ottawa. The letter was found with the dead bodies .in a cabin, addressed to himself from his son, but- it was'written in August 1926, when the party were hopeful of success, and it does not throw any light on the final tragedy. , Canon Armistead, one of the executors for Hornby’, said that Hornbv died first, in April 1927. Adlard died in May, and Christian a month later. He added : - “This, we , gather from Christian’s diary. His companions died in the hut, and,’as they left him alone with dwindling foodstuffs, he must have put their bodies outside and died himself a few week’s later.” Mr Armistead expects by the next boat from Canada, a few things found in the hut, such’ as Hornby’s will, trophies and two chapters of a hook, that he was writing. Christian's diary has gone to China, where his father is stationed.