A REMARKABLE JOURNEY ACROSS WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8035, 24 August 1887, Page 5

A REMARKABLE JOURNEY ACROSS WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

The West Australian published an account of a remarkable overland journey from Port Lincoln to Perth, performed by Henry Mazzini. Mazzini started from York's Peninsula in January, 1886, with his wife and six children, in search of employment. He had been manager on a sheep station, and lost his employment through the rnn being oat up into farms. He croeaed over to Port Lincoln by steamer, and then began one of the most remarkable journeys ever uudertaken by a man with all hie domestic incumbranoea about him. He had two horses, a van, and £100 in money. His object was to obtain employment. He travelled from station to station westward until he found himself unable to return, and when well into the Australian Bight, he found that the horses would be unable to do the journey if he turned back. He there* fore decided to go straight on. He left Port Lincoln in the beginning of ISS6, and worked on a station near Eeperance from August, 1886, until May, 18S7, when he left, cutting straight aoroae the country, and reached Perth on the Bth instant. His children bore up well during the journey, bnt his wife died shortly after her confinement, near Esperanoe, and the infant was buried cot long afterwards at lerremungup.