Missing Friends.

Canterbury Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 7, 1 April 1875, Page 51

Missing Friends.

Inquiry is made for the whereabouts. of William O’Shea/ 30 years, native of Limerick, Ireland, a seaman, who shipped board the John Knox, at j Sydney,' :j on the . 24th - J une, 1873, and proceeded to Lyttelton, since when he has mot been heard'! of by any of/jhis friends, - vlnformation to be sent to the Commissioner of Police, Christchurch. iyinj-

Anxious inquiry is made for George Gibson Richardson, who arrived in ,M#ourae ,pej ship Moravia, in 0ct0ber,,,1874 ; r.b is a native of London, 84 ; years ot age, stt. bim, very thin build, long pale .face, slig -. -whiskers- and >beard:, bald on top i , of J head back hair brown , with patches of, grey, s c hands and feet, very well spoken and[educated, gentlemanly demeanour, delicate appearance, a splendid horseman, an fond of boating, at times suffers from slight mental derangement, when he finds b difficult to articulate. Information to be sent to . f the Commissioner of Police, Christchurch. rj;{r)

Inquiet l is ' made for 1 the. J 1 whereabouts of Randolph Willesford,? aged 8 37 years, 'looks perhaps JJ younger, f short, 1 broad-shouldered ; and strong looking, brown hair, 1 grey eyes, ruddy brown complexion, faee much lined with hard work. “He went to Port Chalmers in the Maori , on» Wednesday, Bth ,October, : 1873, and iis i said to have been employed in 1 some livery stables, in November,' 1873, since: when nothing has .been heard, of 'him. .j-. r<

ii moseoTp ,riy , rimaiar;r!o .nr TOinrig n ywom •‘Wanted the present •’■whereabouts' of r, John Howard, fwbb- r about- six years ago purchased; section 4021, in the Waitangi : district. He was then ' supposed. to be of unsound mind,' and disappeared, going, it was presumed, into the Otago Province ; he was generally known as Cranky Jack Howard. l A man named Daniel Brown, who when Howard bought’ this section, leased the Waitaki ferry, and; kept the accommodation house, now occupied hy Neil MpCowan, is supposed to be the only person i likely to know of [Howard’s whereabouts.,[ jr(}•('+; .virorffrni

A summons is filed in this office for service upon John / Liston, an Irishman from Limerick, - r a gasfitter by trade, j 29 years of age, sft. 10in., fair hair, small fair r moustache and goatee, generally dressed rj in il grey >1 tweed clothes and round-hat,-given to drinking. He was boarding with a man named Brown, l in Lichfield Street, Christchurch, about three weeks ago, [and' 1 went up c country saying he was going to work at 1 a fc machine, and would probably I be down ''again in a month. Intormation to “be 1 sent to ! Commissioner of ; Police, Christchurch. orn 0rn 1 3 muoa /ioiii odd s\

Reverting to Police Gazette, No. 4. 1875 page 27, breaking into Spring’s Hotel, and stealing therefrom— one of ; the watches,’ No. 12967, has been found in the possession of a roan named John Montgomery, who was drmkmg with Cobb in the hotel oh; the night , of the robbery. Montgomery was arrested by the Selwyn' Police, at the Dwell Hotel, [ y here he offered the watch if or sale,"and has r been ; committed for trial. Nothing of the trTced 6 Cnl the Bt ° len P™P been District. C bb 18nowat Geraldine, Timaru

Reverting to Criminal Offence, dated Detective Office, Christchurch, ~ Ist ultimo, Frederick Fisher’s swag .was left behind by him jat , Ashburton, and has been forwarded to him. ohi hnc gTO/i&idvf lifgila llama ,iroizoiff

Reyerting to Police '■ Gazette, IN 6.- ! 3 P 1875, page 17, a distress-warrant is filed in this office, for I( execution upon John Rafferty, therein described. vu ,r •jjfr.fl n ■oiuiislij

Reverting to Police 1 Gazette, No. }5,;.1875, page 34, Hugh Grib son, therein described, has been arrested by the Kaiapoi Police.