. She had strayed into the bush. About half -past 8 on Wednesday morning information was given to the police and a party of forty or fifty horsemen started out, and searched Johnson's Hill, Kimo, about three or four miles on the Yammatree road. It is a mountainous country, full of gorges and scrub, and some of it is as tough as you could find in any part of Australia.
The search party had been told that the child was as hardy and wild as a deer, and that if she saw a horseman or heard a coo-ee she would be sure to hide. On account of the gorges the men could not be divided to make a regular breast of the country. In places they could not even ride their horses. All day Wednesday the search was continued, but without effect. It was then feared that the child had fallen over a cliff.
THE BLACK TRACKERS.
Sub-Inspector Jones sent that evening to Brungle, and two black trackers arrived in the morning. The horsemen with the trackers then started out again, and scoured the country about Kimo and Nangus. Every hole and corner was searched, but no trace could be found of the lost one. At last they returned to town. That evening Mr. Ned Battye, the gold miner, discovered the footprints of a barefooted child near a hollow log, about three miles from the Field's. She had evidently been sleeping there. On Friday morning the two blackfellows and about 90 men started from this point, and traced the child to the Yammatree-road. There amidst the rocks the tracks were lost. They went three or four miles further, but could find no more tracks. Then they returned and searched high and low on each side of the road all that afternoon, but without result. Just before dark, however, the blackfellows found the tracks at Robinson's dam. The child had evidently been walking round the dam, but she did not go near the water. Where she went to after leaving the dam they could not discover.
On Saturday morning the search was renewed in the same quarter, by horsemen from Gundagai, Kimo, Nangus, and Yammatree. About half-past 10, the body of the child was found by Mr. Peter Boyton. She was lying face downwards on the only patch of clear ground in the place, about 300yds. from the dam at which her tracks were lost on Friday. It had been snowing there that morning, and the little corpse was as cold as a block of ice. But she had only died that morning. The jaw had not set, and the body was quite limp. Sub-Inspector Jones hoped that she was still alive, and with the assistance of Mr. Battye did everything in his power to restore animation. Her feet were swollen but not cut, and there were traces of tears upon her face.
THE HOME COMING.
She had got through a wire fence in order to enter the paddock. The place was searched on Friday, but to no purpose, and the police are quite certain that she must have seen some of the party on that day, and the Sub-Inspector says it is probable that she got through the fence in order to avoid them. What she suffered through the cold, hunger, thirst and fear of three days and three nights, it is impossible to imagine. The experience would have killed a strong man. When the body was carried to Fields' house there was a pathetic scene. The brothers and sisters cried bitterly, and could not be consoled. The father too was overcome with grief.
The greatest credit is due to those who went in search of the lost child. Everything that could be done was done. The parties were led by Sub-Inspector Jones and Sergeant McGuffie. An order was given, without an inquiry, for the burial of little Ada, by the Police Magistrate, Mr. Weekes.
I did some quick research and have found out that Ada was buried at North Gundagai Cemetery. I could not find her birth registration or her death registered as Field/s but did find it under Ada Heckner.
According to information I found on Trove, Elizabeth Heckner lived with Charles Field and had eleven children with him. She died in 1891.
Elizabeth Heckler who lives with Field, deposed : Was present when the police and Cooper took away the two sheep now in the yard. Bred one from Herring's ewe and one from Reardon's. Those sheep I bred myself, and claim them as my own. Have lived with Field for eighteen years and have eleven children. Have no doubt about the sheep. The constable told me not to interfere when he was taking them away. Field often had stragglers given him.
Charles Field had been in trouble with the law on more than one occasion, including a case of horse stealing in 1893 for which he was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months. With their mother dead at this time, one wonders who looked after the children, it is possible they were all looking after each other as the older children would have been in their teens. Given the family history it is hardly surprising then that in 1895 Ada was 'wild' and would have run away from people, especially those in authority. It is such a heartbreaking story, she was so close to help but too frightened of them to reach out for it.
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The First Minister of Scotland made her strongest opposition towards the Cambo oil field while speaking at Holyrood.
The UK Government previously released plans to develop the Cambo oil field in a project led by Siccar Point Energy.
If approved, the oil field, located 75 miles off the coast of Shetland, would yield millions of barrels of oil per year.
Sturgeon’s opposition to the oil field comes following pressure to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and coal at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
It marks her strongest opposition to the oil field so far, having previously only urged the UK Government to reassess plans.
What has been the reaction to her opposition?
Many climate activists applauded Sturgeon’s strong opposition to the Cambo oil field.
Sam Chetan Welsh, political adviser to Greenpeace UK, said: “We welcome the First Minister showing leadership, listening to the science and saying no to the Cambo oil field, which has no place in the transition to Scotland’s low-carbon future.
Mary Church, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, added: “We welcome the First Minister’s acknowledgement that there is no credible climate test that the Cambo oil field could ever pass.
However, the Scottish Conservatives accused Sturgeon of having “fully abandoned Scotland’s oil and gas industry”.
He said: “Egged on by Labour, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that she is against the Cambo field and the thousands of Scottish jobs it would protect.
Oil and Gas UK external relations director, Jenny Stanning, said: “While we are accelerating greener energies to help ensure Scotland achieves net zero by 2045, we’ll still need oil and gas as those technologies are scaled up, to avoid the lights going out.
Despite this, her announcement was welcomed by the Scottish Greens, with climate spokesman, Mark Ruskell saying: “She is absolutely right that expanding oil and gas is folly during the pressing climate crisis.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — It’s been nearly a month since a fire destroyed the Lexington Writer’s Room, but the organization is continuing to push forward.
The Writer’s room was one of several organizations that lost their offices in the early morning fire on West Second Street at the end of March. Since then, The Writer’s Room has received nearly $14 thousand in donations to help them rebuild.
They’ve relocated to East High Street and set up shop in the old Common Grounds Coffee Shop.
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