THE MISSING MR. A. L. LEVY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7119, 17 July 1886, Page 4

THE MISSING MR. A. L. LEVY.

THE fact of Mr. A. L. Levy, J.P., tho •well-known Secretary of the New Zealand Temperance Alliance at Wellington, having beeu absent from his home since the previous Thursday morning, July 8, without any notice of such intention having been given to his friends, naturally caused his family considerable uneasiness on the Saturday following, and this developed iato great aoxiety aa the eveaing of that day came on still without any tidings of or from him. His friends are now seriously r 'armed, and have placed the matter in the hands of th^ detective police, and their anxiety is not the less that in connection with the recent action of tho Cook Licensing Committee, the members of that body and Mr. Levy were the recipients of threatening letters. For our part, says the Press, we attach no importance to these letters, which, to say the best of them, were clumsily conceived and inartistic in design, and did not even constitute a good joke. However, the effusion received by Mr. A. L. Levy threatened his removal to another sphere by drowning or ehooliug, and now that he is missing the etched fooling comes to the mind of those dear to him only too readily. This only shows how much to be deplored such ill-advised joking is, but no one with any srnse will seriously connect the threats with Mr Levy's absence. Detective Chrystal would appear to have been the lust person to accidentally notice &r. Lsvy 011 July Bth, and then he was, ot about 10 minutes to one o'clock, on the Queen's Wharf, ia cornpanj- uith a young lady friend, who has luft Wellington, it is understood, by the Hanroto sailing for Sydney Jiat day. It was thought that Mr. Levy might h-tve been below when the steamer loft the wharf, and that he has been accidentally carried off: in her, quite as much inconvenienced himself at the con iretempa as his friends are put about by his strange disappenrdnce. A cable has been sent to Sydney enquiring if the missing man was there, and a reply has been returned that no one answering Mr. Levy's description has arrived. A telegram was on Friday received by the proprietors of the Evening Post from Captain Kennedy, of the Hauroto, in ruply to one sent by them, which said— "No person named Levy was a passenger by the Hauroto." Sir Qaorge Whitmore also received a message from the InspectorGeneral of Polic", Sydney, as follows : "No trace of Levy by the steamer Hanroto." The supposition is that Levy has met with a fatal death, and a large search party will mako an examination of the foreshore of the harbor to-day, it 'being feared that he may have been drowned. The whole circumstances of his disappearance are of such a peculiar nature that they have caused quite a sensation in Wellington.