MISSING.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 8

MISSING.

Gushing Governors in their post-prandial orations have been wont to designate Auckland " The Corinth of the South," but' there is some clanger of that title being altered to " The Levant," if vigorous steps are not taken, to impose a check on swindlers who wipe off their debts with the signal gun of the mail steamer. The Hargescase was a salutary example, which put a temporary check on the exodus of rogues and swindlers, but there are already indications of a revival, and for the commercial credit and good name of Auckland we trust that some vigorous steps.will be taken to arrest it. It is. a fact, however, that the great majority of levanfers who leave lamenting creditors and grass widows, are not long residents in Auckland, but new-comers from the neighbouring colonies, who have found a temporary aiylum in our midst en route to foreign climes. We hear that the police have good reason; to suspect ♦ that, the man- Andrew Allan, whose hat was found on Monday morning near the dock, together with a business letter, has not become food for fishes, but has sought «hange of air and scenery in order to escape certain responsibilities, and the importunities of creditors. Investigation has revealed the fact that he has taken with him whatever of any .value he possessed in the form of clothes and jewellery, leaving behind only sundry worthless and worn out habiliments! In fact, it is shrewdly suspected that he is among that numerous band who are " not lost but gone before." The police have been indefatigable in dragging for the corpse, of the missing man. but hitherto without success. " Oliptomania " ia the latest name for newspaper extracts. '■"- . v '' , ' . ■■■■>-. .-^ _