THE MISSING LINEMAN.
|BY TELEGRAPH—I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.! Rotorua Monday. Bushey, the missing telegraph lineman, returned at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday. Ho had got on the Kaiangaroa Plains, and eventually amongst the scoria ash from Tarawera to the east of Wahanga. He lost all his provisions on the second day, excepting a small tin of Van Houteua cocoa which sustained him well for a week. He was back on the Waiotapu road making for R:>torua when he was overtaken by a returning search party of natives. He was absent six days, and during four he subsisted solely on cocoa.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2529, 25 September 1888, Page 2
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97THE MISSING LINEMAN. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2529, 25 September 1888, Page 2
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