MORE ABOUT POOR QUINTON M’KINNON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 7, 18 February 1893, Page 151

MORE ABOUT POOR QUINTON M’KINNON.

SOME INTERESTING PORTRAITS. LAST week we gave some sketches taken on the search for poor Quinton M’Kinnon, the guide to the Sounds, and one of the bravest and most fearless souls who ever drew breath in the beautiful South Island. Our picture is an excellent reproduction of a life like photograph, and shows M’Kinnon as his friends and comrades always found him. He was, says his firm friend, Mr T. Mackenzie, M. H.R., of whom we also give a photo, a man of iron nerve, great courage, would always take—if permitted to—the heaviest part of the work, and, like Mark Tapley, was cheerful under the most depressing circumstances. He was, indeed, such a man as the colony can ill spare. One of the volunteers to accompany the search party sent under the charge of Mr Mackenzie to try and find some trace of poor Professor Mainwaring Brown, who was lost December 1888, between Manapoun and West Coast Sounds, he was a man whose public service was as real and true as it was inostentious.

A view is also given of the pass discovered by McKinnon. It is from a photo taken in September, 1888, when the pass was discovered, a most notable event here. McKinnon is pointing back to the pass, Mr W. S. Pillans is sitting on his

swag with a Maori hen and billy in his hand, Mr Mac kenzie, M. H.R., is standing up with a kakapo in his belt ami a billhook or axe in his hand. Great interest has been taken in McKinnon's loss, as he was so widely known.