RETURN OF MR A. L. LEVY TO WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2540, 4 March 1887, Page 2

RETURN OF MR A. L. LEVY TO WELLINGTON.

.'. Amongst the passengers from. Sydney by tlieWakatipu last night, says the Post, was Mr Alfred LipmanLevy, the erstwhile secretary of the Wellington branoh of tho New Zealand Temperance Alliance, whoso mysteriouß disappearance from this city about eight months ago caused a considera-: ble amount of comment at the time. ■; Mr Levy was interviewed at'big: mother's residence in Roxburgh street this morning by our repoi:ter,.wno was. courteously received. Our representative said be had called to afford Mr Levy an opportunity, if' he desired it, of giving an explanation of Ms disappearance, and an account of .bis movements in Australia;'but was informed by Mr Levy that he did not at present feel justified in making any detailed statement or explanation. Mr Levy, however, very kindly supplied his interviewer with a few particulars which he had no objeotion to being published. He assured our representative most solemnly that he bad no recollection of goiug on board the vessel which took him to Australia, neither could he recollect anything whatever about anything which had transpired botween that timo and last Monday week, when he found himself in Sydney. .From .what he has learnt since be'returned to Wellington ho is convinced that tho letter received by his wife several months ago, bearing the Newcastle postmark, was written by him,, but ho has no recollection of having written it. He may have paid a visit to Melbourne, but ho does not think ho ever loft Sydney until he went on board the Wakatipu fivo days ago.' In reference to the-statement that be went away in company with a young woman, who who was for soinotimo housokoopor to a woll-kuown tradesman in Lambton-Quay, ho explained that she loft for Christchurch two or three wooks bsforo ho disappeared, and as a proof that she wont there Estates that his wife received a lettor from her while he was in Wellington. Mr Levy says that for several days before he left Sydney to return to Wellington he stayed with his brother-in-law, Mr John Marks, who was in business in this city until a few years ago, and it was while he was there that he received the first news' of his mysterious disappearance. Mr Levy looks remarkably well, but states that he is "'about three stone lighter than he was when he left Wellington. He certainly does not appear to have ■lost flesh during his absence.