INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 14, 7 April 1909, Page 132

INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

Sydney. —lnquiry requested for Francis McDonough, age thirty, height 5 ft. 6 in., traveller, medium build, fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, well educated. Was employed by J. Lindsay, Connor’s Arcade, Auckland, and left in 1904, supposed for the South Island. Inquiry by his wife, Annie McDonough, 31 Pitt Street, Sydney. If traced, information to be forwarded to the Inspector of Police, Dunedin.

Sydney.— l7th March last, an iron safe 18 in. by 24 in. was stolen from the Empire Hotel, Inverell, the back out out, and the contents, the property of Daniel Stirgess, licensee of the above hotel, abstracted. Following is a list of the property stolen : The sum of £271 in gold, notes, and silver, and about £9O in cheques ; a gentlemen’s 18 ct. gold English lever hunting-watch (supposed Hardy, Liverpool, maker), number unknown ; a ladies’ 18 ct. gold double-cased Waltham watch, chased cases, maker and number unknown ; a long gold rope-pattern muff-chain, small gold heart attached ; a heavy 9 ct. gold cable bangle ; a cat’s-eye bangle, gold claw setting ; a large 15 ct. gold horse shoe brooch, with a pearl in centre and diamonds and rubies set in sides; a small box of opals ; and a small piece of West Australian quartz, containing about of gold : total value, £450. Identifiable, except money. £B6 17s. 3d. in cheques, £8 10s. in gold and silver, and the box of opals, was recovered on the river-bank where the safe was opened. (09/767.)

England. Smytherman, age twenty-six, seaman, described as short build, native of London, fair complexion, blue eyes, was a member of crew of the wrecked ship “ Dundonald,” supposed to have been employed by the Union Steam Ship Company, and subsequently grass-seeding on Banks Peninsula. Inquiry by his mother, through the Marine Superintendent, Lyttelton. If traced, information to be forwarded to the Inspector of Police, Christchurch.