Mysterious Disappearance.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 37, 14 January 1885, Page 2

Mysterious Disappearance.

m the "\Vairarapa 67a?* of Friday we find reference to the djsappoai'anoe of two persons from Mastorton, one a lady and tho other a gentleman. The gentleman who is said to have gone' away without saying good-bye is Mr W. J. Lawrenco, stall- sergeant of the Masterton Salvation Army. According to the Star, this officer has been giving it out lately that he was fast " going home." On tho reporter of that paper enquiring after his health -a few days ago, ho told him that ho had sustained a stroke of paralysis, " the result of a tired heart," and that he had only a few days to live. The Star adds : — -The curious feature of Mr Lawrence's paralysis is that it ha,s not prevented . him from attending religiously every cricket match, while his " tired heart " has not interfered with his .r habit of smoking cigarettes by the dozen. Wednesday he certainly looked ill and melancholy. Now comes the strange part of the affair. On Thursday .morning Mr Lawrence dressed himself unaided. At a later hour he is seen ' on the road at the i-Akura looking very bad, with his arm m a sling. In the afternoon Mr Jones, the carrier, encounters him near the Camp, about a dozen miles" from Masterton, with both arms m full swing. Since then nothing has been heard .of Mr Lawrence, and all kinds of surmises are abroad. The lady's disappearance is thus referred to:— "The daughter of a well-known tradesman has disappeared from Masterton m the direction of Wellington under circumstances that have caused her parents considerable anxiety, and-have led to the police being coinmnnicated with,"