RECOVERY OF A LOST GUILD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8926, 15 December 1887, Page 5

RECOVERY OF A LOST GUILD.

A little boy (says the Melbourne ago of December 2) named Smith, about three years of age, was lost in the bush, near Barry's

Reef, Victoria, on Monday morning. It appears that the mother of the child had gone some distance from the house to get wood,

leaving all the ohildren at home. The boy was soon afterwards missed, and was not

foijnd till six o'clock on Wednesday morning, having been out in the bush for two days and two nights, without food or shelter. Search parties went out on Monday in all directions, but without success. On Tuesday the industrious searchers, headed by Mr. Parlies, who has been indefatigable in his exertions, fared no better. Constable Eason then telegraphed for the assistance of the black trackers, who arrived on the scene, in charge of Constable Wright, of Dandenong, on Tuesday night. Daybreak on Wednesday morning found the Queensland trackers on the trail, accompanied by the two officers named, and followed by numbers of men on horseback and on foot within coo«ee of each other. In the crowd were seen the Rev. J. Addison White, Blackwood; Mr.Tranter, head teacher of the school; Mr. Rooney, National Bank ; and many others. The whereabouts of the child were discovered quite by accident. A party of men were crossing a deep creek to join the trackers and their party, when one of them beard a faint cry in the dense undergrowth in the bottom, and on turning aside tbe brushwood tangle and fern leaves for some distance along the creek came upon the exhausted child, who had rolled or fallen down the steep bank, where the lower part of. the body was lying in the water. The child could not have lived much longer. Under the direotion and assistance of Mr. Tranter and tho Rev. J. A. White the little fellow was speedily attended to, and showed hopeful sijjns of recovery after the treatment. The black trackers followed the trail with great skill.