Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 19, 21 September 1881, Page 162

Missing Friends.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, pages 102 and 110.) William Marshall Merrigold has returned to Wellington from London by the barque “ Alexa.”

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 145.) Samuel Wallis has been found. He is at present residing at Roxburgh.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, pages 63 and 102.) Constance Melino Spargo has returned to her home

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 154.) Michael McMahon has been found at Masterton, where he is at present living.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts and circumstances of John Brown, a native of Dundee, Scotland, a sawyer. He left Cape Town on the 11th December, 1863, and was last heard of at Nelson nine years ago, but he cannot be found there now. Inquiry is made for him at the request of his wife, Mrs. Jessie Brown, of Port Elizabeth, through the Colonial Secretary, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of Elizabeth Denniston, Irish, about twenty years of age, about 5 feet 2 inches high, medium build, dark hair and complexion. She had been employed as a servant at the Bowling-green Hotel, Cumberland Street, Dunedin, and left there on the 29th ultimo for the country, in company with a man, name unknown. Inquiry is made for her so that she may be proceeded against for the support of her child.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of William David McLean, a native of County Down, Ireland, a labourer, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, brown eyes, freckled, broad shoulders, auburn hair, small sandy whiskers. He came to Auckland from Melbourne by steamer in January last, and was heard of at Christchurch about two months ago. Inquiry is made for him at the instance of William Dorman, farmer, Springfield, near Malvern.

At 8.30 p.m. on the 29th ultimo, Edward Brown left the New River Hotel, near Invercargill, saying that he was going to Mr. Hitchcock’s to seek employment, and has not since been heard of. Description: Scotch, a labourer, sixty-two years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, dark complexion, hair turning grey, grey whiskers and moustache, round-shouldered, feeble appearance. When he left the hotel he was under the influence of liquor, and it is feared he fell into the river and ha 9 been drowned.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 154.)

Lachlan Langlands has been found. He is at present employed rabbiting on Longridgo Station, near Lumsden, Southland.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of Captain Shepherd Giles, who shipped at Sydney on the Bth October, 1872, as master of the schooner “ Cynthia,” bound for Napier. The schooner was then owned by Captain Brown, of Victoria. In July, 1873, the “Cynthia” went ashore at Hokitika, where Captain Giles left her, and the vessel was subsequently sold to Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart, of Wellington. Captain Giles was next heard of at Lyttelton as master of the schooner “ Canterbury.” Inquiry is made for him at the request of the Inspector-General of Police, New South Wales.