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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 5

Our London correspondent writes : “ A large reward is on offer and will presently be advertised in the Australian papers for any authentic information concerning the whereabouts of the Earl of Shannon, a young man of 29, who was last seen at a mining camp in Canada two years ago, and has ’mysteriously disappeared. Some years back the Earl (then Viscount Boyle) and his younger brother went to Canada to make a fortune ranching. They were not successful, and in 1887 the Hon. Henry Boyle returned to become ‘ something in the city.’ The Viscount remained and was elected a member of the Canadian Parliament. Few personalities were better known in the Dominion, and when the late Lord Shannon died it was expected he would soon be discovered. Private detectives and unlimited advertising have, however, totally failed to unearth his lordship, and it is now susDected that ho must have migrated to some goldmining centre, either in South Africa or Australia. Lord Shannon has, besides inheriting a title, come in for a large sum of money. His younger brother and heir presumptive has started prosecuting inquiries personally in the Dominion,”