MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
The Nelson Colonist of the 20fch says :—: — "Mr. Barclay, formerly of the firm of Moutray and Barolay, of Nelson, left Taranaki for Auckland, in the steamer 'Phosbe' on the 10th. June last, with a quantity of flax which he had with him for sale. Mr. Barclay arrived in Auckland on the 17th, and on the 21st he sold the flax to Mr. Buckland, and received payment, and stated he was about to return to Taranaki immediately. From that day all traces of him have been lost. No intelligence can be obtained of his having left the Mauukau by steamer, nor of his departure from Auckland in any other way. The Commissioner of Police in Auckland has been written to on the subject, but he can obtain no intelligence of the missing man. Mrs. Barclay is now mIN elson, having come to learn whether her husband had been lauded here in any steamer which had been prevented from calling at New Plymouth through stvess of weather, or had passed through on his way south. The state of mind in which Mrs. Barclay is kept through ignorance of her husband's fate is of course most painful, and any person who could throw any light upon it would do a real act of charity."
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4063, 30 August 1870, Page 2
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