Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 26, 23 December 1885, Page 222

Missing Friends.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 204.) Charles Davies has been found.

Information is requested respecting Matilda Blue, a native of Ireland, a prostitute, about thirty-three years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair, upper front teeth out. (See Police Gazette, 1884, page 85.) She is inquired for so that an order may bo served upon her for the support of her child in the Caversham Industrial School.

Information is requested respecting Annie Loughmane, a native of County of Tipperary, between forty-five and fifty years of age, about 5 feet 2 inches high, stout build, fair complexion, dark-brown hair turning grey. It is supposed she arrived at Wellington on the 27th May last by the steamer “ Doric.” She is inquired for at the instance of her daughter, Mrs. Jane Dickison, New Plymouth.

Information is requested respecting Henry Spier, a clerk

or warehouse-salesman, thirty-five years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, inclined to be stout, brown hair, thin on top of head, brown beard whiskers and moustache, beard turning grey, blue eyes, high prominent forehead. He left Sydney on the 6th ultimo supposed for this colony. He is inquired for at the instance of his wife, whom he has left destitute in Sydney, with a view of her taking proceedings against him for desertion.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 214.)

William Goodwin left Waitara on the 13th ultimo by the steamer “ Staffa” for Onehunga, and his brother James left Waitara on the 19th ultimo by the steamer “ Gairloch,” also for Onehunga, and thence to Auckland, with the intention of seeking employment as bricklayers.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 204.) William O’Brien Thorne has been heard of from Melbourne.

Information is requested respecting Edward Dorsey, a seaman, cook, or domestic-servant, who it is thought may be an inmate of an old man’s refuge in this colony, or may have died in a hospital. Inquiry is made at the instance of his sister, Adelia McEntire, 2029, Mission Street, San Francisco.

Information is requested respecting Thomas Whelan, Irish, formerly a gold-miner, about forty years of age, 5 feet 5 or G inches high, medium build, pale complexion, darkbrown hair, long sandy beard whiskers and moustache, stooped shoulders. He left Hawera on the 10th ultimo for Auckland, where he was heard from by letter dated the Ist instant. He is inquired for at the instance of his wife, with a view of taking proceedings against him for her maintenance.

Information is requested respecting Albin Villeval, a Frenchman, who it is said has been engaged as a printer in this colony for the last eight or ten years. He is inquired for at the instance of his half-brother, Pelisser Villeval, Beziers.