THE SEARCH FOE THE BODY.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 11000, 14 April 1904, Page 3

THE SEARCH FOE THE BODY.

The "N.Z. Times" special reporter telegraphing to his paper on Monday night, stated : — Never before in New Zealand has a search for a lost man been conducted so energetically and on such a large scale as that for Mr J. C. Andrew. At the present time it is costing £50 to £70 a day. On the arrival of Mr W. Andrew on Sunday, he offered a reward of £200, and after consulta- ■ tion with his brother, Dr. Andrew, i the reward was increased to £400 for the missing man, dead or alive. J All last night parties of bushmen— some from as far north as Castlepoint—arrived at Martinborough, rolled themselves in blankets, and laid on the floors of tbe hotels, in the billiard-room and the passage. All day, from daybreak, they left the township for the bush, twenty-five miles out. ■, . , j. Great waggons loaded with tents and provisions have been sent away from here. Last night a brake filled j with men hurrying against time in , the darkness was smashed up near ; the township,but the occupants were not hurt, beyond receiving bruises. Another brake took them on at daylight. Jack Gafiford, one of the best bushmen in the Wairarapa, who is deerstalking on a forest reserve at Whareama, has been sent for, and a buggy and two horses are awaiting to bring him through as fast as possible as soon as he can be found. The best bushmen from all over the Wairarapa have been secured, and to-day about 160 men were in the ranges.