PERISHED IN THE BUSH.
(united press association.) Invercargill, October 21
On Sunday a miner named McGregor, found the body of an old man named McDonnell or O’Donnell, in the bush on the Loogwood Rauge. The man was last seen on Ist November last, when be visited a prospector’s claim on the Merrivale diggings, and on leaving took the directon of Longwood. He would appear to have got into” the bush and Most himself in a semicircle over heavy country. He bad almost reached the open when he succumbed. A pipe and matchbox were lying beside the remains as if they dropped from his band. O’Donnell was known as the “ Moa Bird.” [He got the niektame many years ago, when he was a 3hephem on a station on the Waiau River, from having stated that he had r-een a live mca on the ruD. The story got in'.o the newspapers, and wa3 spread far and wide over the country, and even in Australia.]
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 24
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162PERISHED IN THE BUSH. New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 24
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