TRAGIC GOLD RUSH.
Prospector Vanishes in Jungle. (Special to the “ Star.”) NAIROBI, October 12. A tragic story of the latest African gold rush, culminating in the death of one man and the disappearance of another, has just reached here. When the first news of the discovery of a reef was learned hers three men —two farmers and a former Nigerian railway engineer—set out in a car for §outh Kavirondo, on the borders of Tanganyika, where they thought a reef might exist. When they arrived, one man was left to look after the baggage and car, while the others went off prospecting. After some days they returned to where they had left their car and their companion, only to find that both had disappeared. Nothing had been left for them except one shot-gun. There was no food, but the stranded pair decided to walk the 100 miles of uninhabited and trackJess wilds that separated them from me. nearest civilised place—Misu. They arrived safely, and then decided to push on to Kisumu, where one of them died on arrival. Nothing is known of. the third man’s fate. According to a Central News message the man who vanished in the bush was Dr Charles Hickey, a coffee planter, while the man who died at Kisumu was Captain Kenneth Savage, whose wife and family live at Croydon.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 24 November 1931, Page 1
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