THE MISSING TOURIST.

Otago Witness, Issue 2782, 10 July 1907, Page 66

THE MISSING TOURIST.

A SECOND SEARCH UNSUCCESSFUL., Constable Mathieson and ITohn Edgar, who had been appointed a guide by tho ~- ix)lice, returned to Queenstown last Friday after a second fruitless search in the Greenstone Valley for traces of the missing man North. To the Wakatipu Mail Edgar related their experiences. They arrived at the Greenstone on the 25th ult., and' commenced to search from where the bag of provisions was found, about half a mile up the lake from the mouth of the Tiver. | The lake had meantime subsided about 3ft or 4ft. A thorough search was made of the river right up to the Caples. In I that distance there is only one place that | could not be examined, and that is a big; hole which could be got at only with a boat. Next day the search was resumed and prosecuted for four or five miles farther up and -past where North was supposed to have crossed. Next day, a snowstorm having intervened, a start was made for the missing man's last camp, but owingto the severity of the weather the searchers reurned to the lake. They then borrowed a boat, and made a thorough search^ of both sides of the lake, but without finding? any trace. The guide thinks a more thorough search should be made under more favourable circumstances. There ere three likely places where the body might be found. These are the mouth of the Greenstone, the hole between the Caples and the oamp, and the vicinity of North's last camp. It is very hard to form an idea as to whether North has been drowned or lost in the bush. If his food had not been found one would have come to the conclusion that he was lost in the bush ; and he could easily have got into trouble in the river, have lost his bapr of food, got out again and gone on with the journey, perhaps having come reserve food in. small bulk.

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