Extracts from Canterbury Police Gazette.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 4, 10 April 1875, Page 34

Extracts from Canterbury Police Gazette.

(From Police Gazette Ist April, 1875, page 52) MISSING FRIENDS. Inquiry is made for the whereabouts of Randolph Willesford, age 37 years, looks perhaps younger, short, broad shouldered, and strong-looking, brown hair, grey eyes, ruddy brown complexion, face much lined with hard work. He went to Port Chalmers in the Maori on Wednesday the Bth October, 1873, and is said to have been employed in some livery stables, in November, 1873, since then nothing has been heard of him.

Wanted the present whereabouts of John Howard, who about six years ago, purchased section 4021 in the Waitangi district. He was then supposed to be of unsound mind and disappeared, going, it was presumed into the Otago Province; he was generally known as Cranky Jack Howard. A man named Daniel Brown who, when Howard bought this section, leased the Waitaki Ferry and kept, the accomodation house now occupied by Neil M‘Cowan, is supposed to be the only person likely to know of Howard’s whereabouts.