Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 10, 16 May 1883, Page 86

Missing Friends.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts and circumstances of Winand Boucher, a Belgian, who it is said was living at Kennedy’s Bay, Coromandel, about May, 1880. Inquiry is made for him at the request of the Consular Agent for Belgium, Wellington.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 69.)

The body of David Mason was found on the Port Hills,

near Opawa, on the 22nd ultimo. He died from cold and exposure. Nothing has as yet been heard of Archibald Lilly, although repeated searches have been made for him.

Information is requested respecting the whereabouts of John Henry Pleister, a German, a labourer, cook, and gold-miner, between forty-five and forty-eight years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, small thin features, brown hair, thin light-brown beard whiskers and moustache, quiet manner, speaks tolerably good English. He was seen in Christchurch on the 11th March last. He may be engaged cooking at a threshing-machine, or digging potatoes in Canterbury, or he may have gone to Westland, where he had been pi’eviously engaged gold-mining. A sum of £435 was stolen from him by three men in Christchurch in February, 1882. (See Police Gazette, 1882, page 32.) George Murphy, recently committed for trial at Dunedin, is supposed to be identical with one of the offenders, and Pleister is sought for to see if such is the case.