TWO MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 723, 3 August 1878, Page 2

TWO MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.

3 Mr. Duncan Young, the night watch - 1 mail at the Breakwater, has been missing since Thursday night. He was at his | post as usual that night, but nothing lias , been seen or heard of him since. He ; seems to have disappeared during the night, for the lire in tho steam crane was not alight, as it should have been on Friday morning, and the lamp room was in a state of confusion. No parricular attention however was paid to these . circumstances, as it was thought that . Young had gone home for some reason, and left tilings in the state mentioned ; . but when, towards last evening, one of , his children went down to the Breakwater to impure for Young, .stating that ho had not been home sin«e Thursday ni«ht, it at once became, apparent thai something wrong had taken place. A search was made, but without avail, and it being thought that he had failen into the watei\ a portion of the harbor was dragged today, but still 110 trace of him has been found. Connected witli the disappearance of Young are several circumstances of a very suspicious nature, but, for obvious reasons, we refrain from mentioniug them.at present. We have also to chronicle another mysterious disappearance. A man named Oeorge D. Cunningham, whose home is in Oainaru, lias been working for Mr. Smith, farmer, at Papakaio, ' for some Mine. It appears that on Monday, the July, at 12 o'clock, he left Mr. ■Smith's residence on horseback to go to Pudding Hill, a station on the Canterbury side of the Waitaki River. Oil leaving, he saiu ne would ford the river instead of going by„ths bridge. Mr. Smith at this time v,.s', f it Pudding Hill. Nothing further was? '.eard of Cunningham until Ml', Smith returned home yesterday, when, to his surprise, he was told that Cunningham had left Papakaio on the 20th nit. to go to Pudding Hill. Nothing had been seen of him there. • nor has any information been obtained of his whereabouts since. A strict search is i no-.v being carried on, but it is feared that the unfortunate man has been drowned, and it is surmised that the reason the horse has not yet turned up is that ho has Lf->t mro some of the numerous paddocks near t he Waitaki.