A MAN MISSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 5

A MAN MISSING.

DISAPPEARS IN PECULIAR. CIRCL'M' STANCES. i ChristchU;,'i hj, Sal onlay. J" A considerable amount of consterna-' 4 Xjji tion has been occasioned in business cricket and rowing circles in Christ-• ,JJ&I ghuvch by the rumor that a weTi-knoTO: ex-cricketer, who is the representative .• • ; 3si in Duncdin of a big Christcluircht firrnj-;. lias disappeared, leaving no trace, or i ffi®| •practically none, of where lie his 'ROB# f ssjlj|«g wliat has happened to him.Wednesday the young man booked'" re■turn passage from Dnnedin to. Lyttat f Ira ton and telegraphed his friends CliristchurcU that he was paying a vmifc to the city. There seems little that he boarded the Maunganui at Dunedin, for his handbag, which com- Jnj prised ail his baggage, has been fountf. on the steamer, and the purser baa "in , ( his possession the return half of the missing man's steamer ticket. He ap- ( Jjl parcntly did not arrive in Christchurch/ and did not go on by steamer to Sy.tnew. What happoned to the young ™ }is at present a complete mystery. There >v !Is no suggestion that his business af- , -Sf fairs were worrying him. He wag to \have been married at Dunedin next week. As far as is known by the Union 8.3. - Qo. officers, the young man left th« 'steamer at Lyttelton. Tho missinglMn t is Mr. W. .T. Tlobden, representative in ' Dunedin of Messrs Mason, Struthers anJ Co., of Christchurch. " :jg|j| FEARED lIE WENT OVERBOARD. -J3B Christchurch, Last Night. • 'Jll A cablegram has been received frow ~f|i the Union Steam Ship Company at Sya- <||s ney regarding the well-known cricketer, Mr. llvbdcn, which deepens the 'leaf that he went overboard from the Maun- - ganui on the way up from Dunedin Wjgjpfek Christchurch. The cable states that _;ga| Mr. Ilebden's berth on Ihe Maunpnul , igg was not slept in,_ and there were nO ; signs of his coming ashore at Lyttel- * 'Jffl ton. It transpires that Mr. Hehdwl ■ had had three attacks of what was ap« ' " ■ patently sunstroke, and a brother win vl t« subject to fits, from which he died.