DEATHS FROM THIRST IN AUSTRALIA.
WILCANNIA, January 5. A man named Mitchell >\as missed from a snagging camp on the Saturday before Christinas. Ho has not yet been found, and must now bo dead. A boy was lost from White Cliffs on January 2. His dead body waa fouud sonic sis miles away. At the magisterial inquiry on tho bodies of tho overseer of Mount Arrowsmith, Mr Cameron, and the storekeeper, Mr Hanna, who w ere found dead in Christmas week, the evidence showed that they took the horses fiom the buggy, and started across country for a well. Hanna, with the horse beside him, was found dead eight miles on, and Cameron then ci.i/n'ed on his hands and knees. When he died he wai> four miles fiom tho well for winch thoy had started.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9942, 19 January 1900, Page 3
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