Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 24, 25 November 1885, Page 204

Missing Friends.

Information is requested respecting Michael Brannon, who left England for Australia about 1844, and who was in the employment of Mr. Isaac Sherwin, Sherwood, Battiwell, Tasmania, from November, 1854, until March, 1858. Ho left Tasmania about seventeen years ago for this colony, and has not since been heard of by his relatives. He is inquired for at the instance of his brother, James Brannon, care of the Staff Officer of Pensioners, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.

Information is requested respecting Bernard Gallagher, a shoemaker by trade, whe left Grenfell, New South Wales, about 1862, for this colony. He joined the Wellington Police, and subsequently married Mary Ann O’Brien, whoso father, it is said, gave him a farm. He is inquired for at the instance of John Davy, Grenfell, New South Wales.

Information is requested respecting Augustus Victor Smith, who left his home at Kurupuni, near Masterton, on the 9th instant. Description: A native of the colony, a labourer, fourteen years of age, 4 feet 10 inches high, dark hair and complexion; wore brown-tweed sac-coat, dark-grey-tweed trousers and vest, blue shirt, straw hat, and lace-up boots. He spoke of going to Napier. He is inquired for at the instance of his mother.

Information is requested respecting William O’Brien Thorne, a native of England, a bakers’ cart-driver, twentyseven years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair and whiskers, two or three wens on head. He left Otahuhu on the lltli May last, and was seen at Auckland on the 14th, and a letter bearing the Wellington postmark was received from him about the end of the same month, hut nothing can now bo heard of him at Wellington. He was, for about a year, from the 25th October, 1882, confined in the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, and it is supposed that he may have become insane again. When he left Otahuhu he spoke of going to San Francisco.

Information is requested respecting George Alexander Hobbs, a native of the colony, a fellmonger, eighteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, full face, fair complexion, brown eyes, dark-brown hair, slightly bowlegged ; wore dark-tweed-suit, soft black felt hat, and clasticside boots. He left his father’s house, Old Porirua Road, Johnsonville, on the morning of the 26th ultimo, and on the morning of the 28th ultimo was seen going towards the Hutt carrying a swag. John Bell, road-contractor, Waihenga, is his uncle. He is inquired for at the instance of his father.

Special inquiry is requested to be made for Charles Davies, supposed a native of Scotland, a station-hand or musterer, about twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, small fair beard whiskers and moustache; wore dark-tweed suit and black felt hat. He left Otaraia about three weeks ago, saying that he was going to look for work at the Teviot Station, and will likely be found in the Teviot, Tapanui, or Lawrence Districts. He was riding a small bay horse, and had two collie dogs with him. He is required as a witness in the case of James Patrick Casey, alias James Mcasey, remanded on a charge of forgery and uttering, and, if found, it is requested that the Inspector of Police, Invercargill, be informed by telegram of his whereabouts.

Information is requested respecting Ann Young, nee Macdougall, a native of Lochgilphead, Scotland, who left Scotland about thirty years ago with her husband, William Young, for Australia or this colony. It is supposed that she was in Melbourne. It is said that William Young died, and that she married again; that her second husband, who it is thought was a farmer, died also, and that soon after his death she was preparing to return to Scotland, when she was murdered by one of her servants, who was executed for the crime. Inquiry is made at the instance of her niece, Mrs. Mary Gale Ferguson, 19, Derby Street, Levenshulme, Manchester.

Information is requested respecting William Ellison, alias Charles William Ellison, alias Thompson, a native of England, a storeman, labourer, &c., about thirty-two years of age, 5 feet inches high, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair whiskers and moustache, usually shaves his chin. He was sentenced, at Wellington, on the 9fch December, 1880, to three years’ labour for larceny, and on the 28th August, 1882, to two months’ labour for vagrancy. (See Police Gazette , 1882, pages 113 and 187.) He was subsequently employed by the Waiohine River Board, Greytown, Wellington District, but left there about January, 1883, supposed with the intention of going to Sydney. He is inquired for at the instance of his mother, Mrs. Mary Ellison, Nursery Cottage, Green Lane, Old Swan, Liverpool, England.

Information is requested respecting George Garth, a native of England, a gold-miner, fifty years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, sandy hair whiskers and moustache, slightly ruptured ; wore small gold rings in ears. He was seen about a year ago at the Half-way House between Clyde and Cromwell. He is inquired for with a view of obtaining from him the amount clue for the support of his illegitimate child in the Gaversham Industrial School.

(See Police Gazette , 1885, page 196.)

John Jenkins, alias Carey, alias Kelly, alias Wylie, left Napier on the 14th instant, saying that he was going to Mr. Maclean’s station, Maraekakaho, where he said he was employed shearing.

Information is requested respecting Charles Edward Brown, a seaman, about twenty-nine years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, dark complexion, dark hair whiskers and moustache. Pie left New York in October, 1884, by the barque “Kenilworth ” for Wellington, as second mate, and was discharged from the vessel at Wellington on the 21st March last. He spoke of again shipping in a foreign-going vessel, but he has not shipped at Wellington. He is inquired for at the instance of his father, Charles E. Brown, 11, Penzance Street, West Hartlepool, Durham, England.

Information is requested respecting Charles Yoak, a native of France, a bootmaker, twenty-two years of age, about 5 feet high, medium build, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, no hair on face except a small light moustache, scar on centre of forehead, smart appearance. He was seen in Dunedin in June last, when he said he was employed in a boot factory. Ho is well known in Christchurch and Invercargill. He is inquired for so that he may be proceeded against for the support of his illegitimate child.