UNCLAIMED MONEY: NEXT OF KIN AND HEIR WANTED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3277, 3 January 1917, Page 23

UNCLAIMED MONEY: NEXT OF KIN AND HEIR WANTED.

TO THE EDITOR. SlB,- —During the eventful year just closing a considerable number of inquiries have been* made by advertisement for missing heirs, legatees, next-of-kin, etc., by executors, solicitors, trustees, and by order of the Court of Chancery, in Australian, New Zealand, and British newspapers, the amounts at stake being in many instances ot considerable value, and a selection from, tho principal of these may prove of interest and of possible value to your readers. In the following' list all the persons named are known to have emigrated to, or were last heard o£ in Australia or New Zealand. Any of your. subscribers thinking themselves interested! can obtain further particulars from tha undersigned, and beyond a penny stamp for reply, no fee should be sent by inquirers:—'

Alfred Ahlberg, a seaman; Alfred A ins-* worth, late of 'l'hnaru, New Zealand; Gilbert Spading A.ceroyd, son of John; Walter Henry Allen ; Thomas Corlctt Andrews, son of Henry Joseph Andrews; Charles J nek son Ayre, who left South Shields when 18 years of age; Loo Araiiger, or Elmiger; the next-of-kin of Jean Baillie, neo Dickson, formerly of Luthemuir; George Barber, in South Australia in 1914; James Andrew Barton; the representatives or next-of-kin of Walter George Bate, formerly of Sydney ; John and William Bell, brothers of James Bell; Ernest Benson, eon of Thomas Benson, a cigar merchant of London; Joseph Bosworth, born in 1846, and who left for Australia in 1862; Harry Bowketfc, formerly of South Wales; Edmund John Bovd, born 1337, and who in 1859 was living with his mother at Collingwood, Victoria; Lucy Bradshaw, nee Jenkins, daughter o£ John and Mary Jenkins, or brother Robert; John Brady, brother of John Catherine and Nora Brady; Jeremiah Brady, son of Peter; Breo, Mary Ellon, who left Queensland in 1887; Thomas Brown, who worked as a gold miner on Deep Lead, Mount Pleasant. Victoria, in 1860. or representatives; Hilda Bruton, daughter of Henry and Susan Bloomiicld, or Broomfield: Henry Bulford, son of Henry Adolphus Bulford : Charles Isaac Burrows, son of Charles Burrows; Jams Busbridge, son of Jamet=; Harry Byron, late of Auckland, New Zealand; James and Julia Crawley Calder. formerly of Queensland; Elizabeth Chadwin, daughter of John and Hannah Chadwin, nee Pacev (first and second cousins of); George and Walter Chrystie. late of Queensland; Oliver Arthur Collins, formerly of Bendigo; Henrietta Connollv, nee Martin, or her husband or children: the children of Alfred Combes, who arrived in Australia about 1867; Sarah Frances Courteney, widow or Robert John Courteney; William Ihompson Cowens, from Northumberland; Edward Cowham, brother of Frances Cowham, ot Yorkshire; George Cracknell, formerly of Rushworth Victoria, and afterwards of Bourke New South Wales; Grace Haley, nee Henderson; Lillian Margaret Davies, daughter of Robert Davies; \\ ilham Edmund Davies, son of David Davies; George Donald, late of Aueidajid New Zealand. ' a son of John S. Donald; William Dtmkin, born in India, 1826. and Sophia Elliot, his wife. or representatives; Edward Laurence Fitch, who left England for Australia in 1384; Ellen Fogarty sister of William Fogarty; the next-of-kin ot Patrick Foley, formerly of Blackall, Queensland; Joseph and Jane Foster, nee McLlellan last hoard of at Chr.stchurch, New Zealand: Henry Highfield Gee, formerly of Lymm, Cheshire; John Gillies, formerly, of Ingham, Queensland; John and Catherine Gifmonr, late of New South Wales; Caroline Grant, late of Granville. New South Wales; Dor Charles James Grant, formerly of Tarnagulla, Victoria; Caroline Ahc& Amelia Grant; George Grant, who arrived from London in 1911; John Grant, formerly of Duhho, Now South Wales; Thomas Grecnhill, who arrived in Australia about vcars ago, or representatives; Jameg Clarke Hamill, eon of John Harmll; Thomas do la Have, and his sister Annie, born ui Jersev and who emigrated to New Zealand ;' John and Susie Heekiiey, or Maggie Coon, or Coffey. Annie, Ethel, Ndfe,""* Mabel Henry, sisters from Belfast"; William Powell Hick's; Andrew Highett. son of John Htehett: Henry Gibson and Robert! Hiffhett, sons of Matthew Highett. or children; Albert, E. Hill, formerly of Gympie, Queensland. and later of SouthAustralia; Robert Humphreys, husband of Mary Humphries, formerly Crewdson: the next, of kin of William James, of Woodlands in 1853: Walter Jamioson. some time of Nose Bridge. Isley. Scotland; Joseph Johnston, formerly of Wellington New Zoaland and afterwards of Broken Hill; Richard Johnston, son of William Bnrley Johnston, or representatives; William Cox Johnston, last, heard of in New South Wales; Jones Jones, a son of David Jones and who left England in 1884: Laurence and .Tame* Jordon, sons of John and Catherine, Jordon: Peter Kinnamont. formerly of Locheelly, Fife, last heard of at Christrhureh in 18S9: Robert Kissock. son oS John Kissock; William Knabenschuh. lastheard of in Adelaide; the next of km o£ Edward Morgan Lewis; Rolfe France* Lowndes Lorrain son of John Rice Lorraine: Claude Hamilton Lyon, late of Nel«on New Zealand; Martha R. Lytic; the children of Colin and James Murdo W ; lliam Mackenzie, born Edinbnrga about 1826 a son of William Mackenzie; William M'Leod, a native of Stornoway; Mary or Marion Mahor or Meagher, who (eft New Zealand for Sydney about 15 years a"'o- James Malcolmson. foYmerlv of County Down, and late of Queensland; William •M'Aroe son of John M'Aree; Robert. Frederick, and Ernest McCotter, bite of Sydnej ; James M'Evov. last heard of in Auckland; Matthew M : Gu ; re, sometimes known as James James M'Guire. last heard of in Greymouth, New Zealand: Gvore;o Meadows, formerly of Exeter. England, and Chr ; <dehureh, New Zealand; the next of kin of Charles Miller, formerly of TcmpS

Downs Station; Laura Louisa Morloy Phillip Murray, late of To Kuiti; Annie Newton, who left Christ-church, xNew Zealand, about 26 years ago; John Noonan, a farmer's son, formerly of Gortalassa, Limerick, and who arrived in Australia in 1876 and joined the Victorian Police Force, and who was last heard of in Adelaide in 1888; Joseph Northcy, son of Joseph and Catherine Northey; Alfred Thomas Norton, formerly a school teacher at Camberwell, England (next of kin of); Oldman, Mrs Rose, formerly Kuffin, who left New Zealand about 55 years ago, or her children Rose and Richard; U'Loughlan, James Joseph, late of Port Pirie; O'Neill, Isabella, nee M'Cormack; Ortlipp Phillip. formerly of New South Wales; Reginald Orton, son of Henry .Sambourne Orton; Osborne. William Stephen, son of James Osborne; Parker. Edwin George, formerly of Townsville. Queensland ; Perkins, Miss Charlotte, at Carlton, Victoria, 1894; Richard Threadford Price; Gerald Purton, son of Rev. Walter Purton; Ramey, John, formerly of Fitzroy; Raymond, P>ranston Reddish, late of Sydney; Edith Redman, daughter of William Redman; William Glaskin Richards and his daughter. Mary Jane; the children of Kose Riddell, who died in 1867; Grace Russell, nco Henderrcn: John Sharp, who arrived in Australia in 1855; Toney Shulkosky; Charles Edward Skelhorn, son of Jesse and Sarah Skelhorn ; the daughter of John Sloane, formerly of Dublin; Edmund Smith, brother of Rev. Michael Smith; John and Theodora Smith, children of John Smith; Norah Gertrude Smith, nee Skene; Robert Spence, last heard of in Sydney; Charles Stembel, son of William; John Thomas Stephens, formerly of Moree and Albion Town, New South Wales, and later of Zcehan; William Stevens, formerly of Glen Lines and Tarnworth, New South Wales; Mrs Stowe. formerly of Queensland, later of Bendigo, iVictoria; Cornelius Sullivan, son of Cornelius Sullivan, New South Wales; James Taylor, formerly of Ryde road, Gladesville ; Harry Thompson, brother of Isabella M'Wha; Frances Amelia Tomholt or Holt or Wilson, last heard of with the Rickard vaudeville circuit; Harry Easton Wallis. formerly of Penzance; Jeremiah Walsh, son of John Walsh of Countv Limerick: Mrs Ward, formerly of Romford, Essex; Robert Andrew Warrington; John Watkins, lato of Christchurch; Mary Waters, nee Hall, late of Brisbane; Alexander Watson, son of William; the next of kin of Mark Williams, late of T© Kuiti; Maud Wilson, widow of Robert; Malachi White, formerly of Ballvcorban, County Gal way; George White, 'son of William; Thomas Savillo Whitehead, native of Fricrn Barnet; Whyte, Alexander, a blacksmith, and his son John; the children of Emmelino Wood, formerly Hosken; Norman Wren, formerly of Sou'thport; Samuel Young, a medical student; Frederick Charles Young, son of Mary Patience Young; Ida Young, widow of F. H. Young.—l am, etc.,

Thos. W. Lloyd. Lloyd's Next of Kin and Unclaimed Money Offices, 80 Swanston street, Melbourne, December, 1916.