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SETTLER MISSING.

Mr W. Button, settler on Anroa ro*!; nas (our^Ot»keho correspondent writM) been misting from his house sinoe 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning. About fifty of settlers have sinot been scouring the distriot for him without bucooss. Constable Salmon is also assist* ing in the search. The worst fears art entertained «s to his fate, v be haa been ailing and depressed for some time, and le ! k the honse without taking anything with him as for a ioDrney.and qnly partly dressed, having left his coat and hat behind. I understand he made his will tbe day before he disappeared. Mnch Bympatby is felt for his wife, who is naturally iv a most distraoted state of mind over his myisteiious absence. (BY IEL3QBAPH.) (FROM A CORBESPONDKOT.) , OTAKEHO,' ApriI 7. There are no tidings of William Sntton, who la missed sinoe Wednesday. Some Maoris say they saw him on P* tiki road on Wednesday. A search party of seventy was ont all yesterday, and a larger party has gone oat to-day. It is feared that he mast have met with his death. It it understood he bad his will made on last Tuesday. Mr Webber said be followed his tracks through the bash as far as Baternan's, about a mile along the Sktet road, and then lost trace.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 7 April 1893, Page 2

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SETTLER MISSING. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 7 April 1893, Page 2

SETTLER MISSING. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 7 April 1893, Page 2