Missing Friends.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 1, 13 January 1892, Page 4

Missing Friends.

George Dalwinkle Chapman is missing from his home at Napier since the 27th uUTrjno. Description: Clerk, Bank of New Zealand, twehty-onc or twenty-two years of arfby abput 6ft. higln and active appearance, ruddy-'comttlexipq, brown/lfair, very slight fair moustache, satire sholarg e frame. He has expressed his inten■ythpn of joinmg the Permanent Artillery, and may have gone to Wellington for that purpose, or may seek employment on a sheem&kttfon. His accounts at the bank have been found correct: It has since been ascertained that he was in Welon the following day, and intended leaving by the b)s. “ Tarawera ” for Lyttelton. He wore a brown-tweed “coat, tweed trousers, large pliable straw hat, and coloured shirt, had no collar on ; and was in the company of a young man of fair complexion, small fair moustache only, dressed in dark clothes, and hard black hat.

Timothy Carey, traveller for the Black Diamond Brewery, Taranaki Street, Wellington, disappeared from there on the 30th ultimo, and is inquired for by M. R. Taylor. Description : Irish, thirty years of age, sft. Gin. high, stout build, full dark beard; dressed in dark-grey clothes and hard blaclc-felt hat. Has a wife and family at Westport, where he formerly worked as a wharf-labourer.

John Miller Durie, also known as John Miller, is missing from his hut at Twelve-mile Beach, near Alexandra South, since the 9th ultimo. Description : Scotch, a carpenter and miner, fifty-fivo years of age, sft. 7in. or Bin. high, medium /build, brown hair rather long and turning grey, scraggy beard whiskers and moustache, scar on head, face and hands sunburnt; respectable appearance, very eccentric. His brother, Alexander Durie, is a spice-merchant in Moray Place, Dunedin.