Missing Friends.

Canterbury Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 7, 1 July 1872, Page 26

Missing Friends.

Charles Alfred Sellars, 12 years, 4ft., stout build, 6st. weight, fair complexion, brown full eyes, dark brown hair, medium head, round features, smart gait; wore a brown billycock hat, black coloured tweed coat and vest, moleskin trousers, watertight boots ; has a slight impediment in his speech. Since the boy left his employer, Mr. Flood, of Southbridge, on the Ist March, 1872, no trace of him can be found. He would probably seek employment on a farm or station, being accustomed to that kind of work.

Augustus DeVeil King, arrived in Wellington in March, 1869, per s.s. Omeo, from Melbourne, having landed there from England in the ship Vimeira the previous month., Was last heard of at Mr. Phillip Mcßae s station, in the Awatere district.

William Nairn, left White Swan Hotel, Christchurch, on 20th May, 1872, stating that he was going to the bank, and from thence to Courtenay, where he has never arrived. Description :—Scotch, labourer • age 26height, sft. lOin.; stout build, list, weight, dark complexion, blue eyes, dark whiskers and beard, no moustache, large head, prominent features, large forehead light eyebrows, pug nose, large mouth, regular teeth, small pointed round chin Ion" arms, bowed legs, large hands and feet,’ordfnary gait; dressed in dark sack coat, light hit troUSers ’ elastic ’ sid e boots, billycock

Reverting to form of inquiry for “ Missing riends forwarded for general information and attention m May, 1872, Mary Coles iorem escribed, has been ascertained to be living in Wellington.

Reverting to form of inquiry for “ Missing Friends ” forwarded for general information and attention on 25th May, 1872, no intelligence has yet been received of Henry Law, therein described.