Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 5, 5 March 1884, Page 38

Missing Friends.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 18.) Edward Conlan died at Ngapara four years ago. His son, John Conlan, is keeping a farm near Ngapara.

Information is requested respecting Herman Edwin Finck, who was employed at Te Hau-o-te-Atua Station, Poverty Bay, where he left about two and a half years ago, and it is said was subsequently employed splitting timber in the bush near Woodville, but he cannot be found there now. He may be employed in the bush in the Wanganui or Wellington Districts. He is believed to be identical with Henry Finch, charged on warrant of commitment to Gisborne Gaol in default of paying a fine and costs. (See Police Gazette, 1881, page 74.) He is inquired for at the request of his sister, Eliza C. Finck, Toronto, through His Excellency the Governor.

Information is requested respecting Edward Mehigan and Mrs. Margaret Dinan, who were supposed to be in Auckland, but they cannot be found there. A letter from their niece, Mary Ann Bacon, 56, East Newton Street, Boston, America, awaits them at the Post Office, Auckland.

Information is requested respecting Ralph George Flunder, a native of Arlesey, England, a clerk and shopman, twenty-seven years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high, slight build, dark straight hair, little or no whiskers, of a somewhat serious aspect, gentlemanly appearance. He joined the constabulary on the 30th September, 1881, and was discharged from the force on the 21st September, 1882. He was subsequently employed at Mr. Whittem’s store, Manutahi, but he recently left there, and passed through Hawera on the 15th ultimo, saying that he was going to Auckland in search of work. He is known to the Postmaster at Lyttelton. He is inquired for at the request of his father, Daniel Flunder, Arlesey Board School, Baldock, Herts, England.

Information is requested respecting Richard Robert Brett, a native of Kennington Road, London, but has been in Australia and New Zealand since he was eight years of age, a general merchant, &c., fifty-one years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, heavy brown beard side whiskers and moustache,

high forehead, light-blue eyes, broad nose and features, left forefinger badly deformed. He left Melbourne in 1864 for Dunedin, and was heard of at Ross, Westland, in January, 1873, but he cannot be found there now. He is inquired for at the request of his sister, Sarah Elizabeth Brett, 14, Queen Anne’s Road, South Hackney, London.