LOST IN THE BUSH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1906, Page 1

LOST IN THE BUSH.

ADVENTUREOF THREE YOUNG

Three young women, who took an afternoon trip to Day's Bay, across Wellington harbor, had an experience tUatthey will not soon forget. They started to explore the bush on the hillside, and alter a long ramble they found that they had completely lost their bearings. After some consideration, finding themselves on a ridge, they decided to follow it, keeping to the course of a stream which could be seen at the bottom of the gully. As however, they had crossed the ridee without knowing it, this of course led them further from their destination. The evening set in cold, and they were without provisions or wraps. One of the party stepped over a precipice, but was rortunately caught in some dense growth below, and with no little difficulty scrambled back to safety A stone dropped over the verge dfsclosod that the bottom lay very far below. They then camped for the night, their rest disturbed by the "moreporks" and by large nocturnal spiders, but still more by the cold, against'which their blouses and skirts afforded very inadequate protection. At dawn the nest niornuj»: they re-ascended the spur ana.shortly afterwards were overioyed to discover their tracks of the previous day. f They surprised the folks at the .uay s .Bay refreshment house by an early vmt in a much dishevelled condition, and made amends at breakfast lor their fifteen hours' fast. They returned to the city by the first vfioa^ and found anxious friends on ilia wnarf awaiting them.