The Egmont Climber.
[Pbb Pbibs Association;] '' NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 9. A party of eight men left at noon to-day ' for Mount Egmont to fetch Mr South--1 wood's body to town. They will reach the mountain house whioh has. just been 1 ereoted for tourists, and stop the night 1 there, leaving at daybreak to-morrow morning to fetch the body. The mountain , house is three thousand two hundred feet above the sea-level, and the place where 1 the body lies is at the top of the mountain, which is eight thousand two hundred feet high. If the weather ia favourable the j party hopes to have the body in town on i Thursday, when an inquest will be held, j I The papers found on the deceased are still in a state of pulp, and it is doubtful if the writing will ever be deciphered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7201, 9 February 1892, Page 3
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144The Egmont Climber. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7201, 9 February 1892, Page 3
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