Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 3, 29 January 1879, Page 20

Missing Friends.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts and circumstances of Thomas Liddell, who left England in 1857 for the Australian Colonies. He left his wife and family unprovided for in England. No further particulars furnished. Inquiry is made for him at the request of Thomas Liddell, Adlington, Lancashire, England.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of Thomas Hunt, who left London about 1861 for the Australian Colonies. Description : About thirty-five years of age, tall, stout build, dark fresh complexion. He is a son of William Hunt, sawyer, Blackwall Yard, St. Leonard’s Road, Poplar. When last heard of he was employed by a Mr. McCloud, on a sheep station, but he is supposed to be at present manager of a sheep station in this colony. Inquiry is made for him at the request of Mrs. Sophia Kemp, care of Mrs. Birck, Enderboy’s Cottages, Marsh Lane, East Greenwich, Kent.

On the night of the 28th ultimo, Henry Richardson left Cromwell for his home at Bannockburn, and has not since been heard of. Description : English, a miner, forty years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, medium build, black hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache, worn long ; dressed in black-tweed suit and soft black-felt hat.

(See Police Gaette, 1878, page 164.) James Somerville was found dead on the Rough Ridge Ranges, near Puketoi Station, on the Ist ultimo.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of Alfred Levi Clark. Description : English, has worked at a foundry, learning engineering, fifteen years of age, tall for his age, slight build, light-brown hair, grey eyes, very large feet, stooped shoulders, limping gait; wore blue-serge suit. He worked at Little Omaha for a farmer named Young, who paid his passage by the “Annie Melbank ” to Auckland on the 13th November last. Inquiry is made for him at the request of his sister, Mrs. * Elizabeth Beasley, Princes Street, Auckland.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of Richard James Owen, a native of England, arrived in the colony when very young, nineteen years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, smart appearance, sallow complexion, blue eyes, dark-brown hair, small moustache; wore dark or drab 6uit, light-coloured soft-felt hat, old silver geneva watch, and heavy steel chain ; when walking works his hip peculiarly. He served three years as an apprentice to tho painting trade with Mr. D. Dakins, at Auckland, and is likely to be now employed as an improver or journeyman painter.

• (See Police Gazette, 1878, page 179.) Jesse Baxter left Kumara about eighteen months ago, with the intention of going to Canterbury.