Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 24 December 1884, Page 219

Missing Friends.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 167.)

Charles J. Laidley has written to the Post Office authorities at Blenheim, giving his address as “ Cora Linn, West Coast Road, care of Mr. J. W. Bruce.”

Information is requested respecting George Hayward, a West Indian native, a cook or house-painter, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, black complexion, Yankee beard; wore a dark-cloth coat, dark-striped tweed trousers and vest, and hard black-felt hat. He is inquired for at the instance of his wife, Margaret Hayward, whom he left destitute with one child at Masterton about the Ist instant. He arrived at Lyttelton in the ship “ Boyne ” from London.

Information is requested respecting William Henry Colston, a native of Gloucestershire, England, a seaman, thirty-two years of age, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, fair complexion, aquiline nose. He arrived at Lyttelton in the ship “ Mereope ” in 1874. In 1877 he left Christchurch and sailed in the “ Rotorua” for Sydney, with the intention of joining the Sydney Mounted Police. He was last heard of by telegram from Sydney in the same year, stating he was very ill. He had with him a cattle-dog named “ Joe.”

Information is requested respecting John Crotty, who left Cape Town for New Zealand about the year 1863. Inquiry is made at the request of his sister, Mrs. Margaret Walsh, care of Rev. Thomas Meagher, Rondebosch Station, Cape Town.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 160.) Peter Stewart Mercer, missing from Melbourne, has been traced to Bombay.