WHERE IS HE ?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14103, 3 July 1909, Page 6

WHERE IS HE ?

: MAN UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARS. JBY telegraph.—tress association.] Wellington, Friday. In the Magistrate's Court a case was heard in which counsel for plaintiff said defendant had "passed out" mysteriously, and for no reason that could be suggested. .His debts were few, and he was the fortunate possessor of a considerable amount of valuable property. Moreover, said counsel, ho was a man whose reputation was undeniable. He had never in the past failed to meet his engagements, and creditors who now sued him would have trusted him with anything. But he had disappeared. He was last seen in March, when he was suffering from an attack of pleurisy. He left Wellington for Tauranga, and it was understood that the object of his visit was to make arrangement* for building a house on a farm that he owns in that district. Since then he had never been heard of, although every search had been made for him. Mr. McArthur, S.M., found that there was only one way of dealing with.the summons, and that was to direct it to be advertised in the Tauranga newspapers.