WOMAN'S RASH JOURNEY.
KKIIArSTM) ON TIIE TRACK. Our lihifl' con-jspondeiK says: "The cutter 80-dta, from the West Coast Sounds fe-herio-:. reports an exciting, and perhaps c-c-r:ous, ii.vidrnt from l'''-;;:erva-tion liilcl, The ascertainable farls are these: The \vif<- of the lately-appointed-native-bird caretaker at, Resolution Island, sa:d to he a recent- arrival from Home, beir.g anxious to join her husband, rashly undertook the journey on foot. In co.nlpauv with a guide nauird Harry Hates, she set oul from Orepnki. On'tho day the J'o.-C'ttii left C-nmiarly Bates came into, tho settlenuMit. and reported that the vomm. having knocked up on the irack about- 12 or 14 miles from the inlet, he was tamed to leave her and come on for assistance. A ivl-vf p.irtv was at- once formed, and they set <mt to the woman's rcseue. When Ihe cutter left, no tiding had- been revived as to their sticr«iii or otherwise. The woman must have desisted from ths journev at or about (treen Isles, and the journey thither cm:!;l not ha,e been less than 50 miles, over a vorv rough trade, made more difficult by bad river crossing,''
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14357, 29 October 1908, Page 2
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185WOMAN'S RASH JOURNEY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14357, 29 October 1908, Page 2
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