THE MISSING TOURIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13488, 15 May 1907, Page 7

THE MISSING TOURIST.

A DANGEROUS JOURNEY. VERY LITTLE .HOPE OP HIS SAFETY. [by telegraph,—-own CORRESPONDENT.] ' . Wellington, Tuesday. - The superintendent• of the Tourist Department (Mr, T. E. Donne) has received a .telegram y> from ".. the Department's agent:, at. Queenstown {Mr. Millward), giving,particulars connected with the disappearance of the missing tourist,..whose., ease-wa«j referred to a day or two ago. ""'• On April. 16." the telegram reads: ''A man named Frederick E. North, from America, called to see about walking to Te" Anaii over Burley track, from the .Greenstone..- J gave him all the information I could, and told him it would be impossible for a stranger to make the journey without a guide. I advised him to telephone to Guide Bnrley, at Glenorchy. He called again in the afternoon, and said that - the guide fee. of £1 per day was too much, and asked if I would lei "Sum know if any others were." going to make the journey oh April 18. ' North went to Elfin by the Government steamer, and it was not for some time after that 1 knew he had undertaken the journey. He took with him only one rug and provisions for about five days. * He had no gun or compass, only » map of the district. He left his American address in case he was not again heard of, and promised to write to his' landlord from the first'; post office he reached." ' . It is also mentioned in the telegram that ! the police have searched Martin's }3ay for Mr. North without result,.and they are now searching .along the Te Anau track. -Very little hope is entertained of the missing' tourist being discovered alive. ' [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] . Dtjnkdin, Tuesday. j Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., who lias a good knowledge of the- tourist tracks in Otago, states that the police.report regarding the tourist who is missing on the Green-stone-Te Anau track is valueless. He says [ that the abandoned camp referred to by j sportsmen returning from Manora to Wakatipu was miles away from the course any person making for Te Anau would have I taken. The point where Mackenzie's party, which made the overland trip' not long ago, struck Greenstone Valley is fully 10 miles beyond where the sportsmen would be on their return.''

In Mr. Mackenzie's, opinion something should be done to clear up the mystery.