Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 3, 29 January 1879, Page 20

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

Thomas Kaine is charged with deserting, on the 13th instant, from the steamer “ Wellington,” at Wellington. Description : A native of the colony, an apprentice seaman, fourteen years of age, 4 feet 6 inches high, stout build, light hair, fair complexion, smooth face ; wore a coloured-cotton shirt and moleskin trousers. He had been in the Naval Training School at Auckland.

Duncan Montgomery and Samuel Goodw r in are charged, on warrant issued by the Port Chalmers Bench, with deserting from the brig “ Star of Mersey,” at Port Chalmers, on the 2nd instant. Description: Montgomery is Scotch, twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, brown hair, whiskers, and moustache. Goodwin is Scotch, forty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, brown hair, whiskers, and moustache.

Frederick Main, Peter Bendis, Ilenry Horne, Andrew Vaulk, and George Williams are charged, on warrant issued by the Lyttelton Bench, with deserting from the barquenline “ Charles Deering,” at Lyttelton, on the 14th instant. Description : Main is Irish, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, dark complexion and hair, small dark moustache. Bendis is a German, twenty-two years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, fair complexion and hair, reddish moustache. Horne is a German, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, dark complexion, pockpitted, small moustache. Vaulk is a Gorman, sixteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, fair hair and complexion. Williams is a German, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, stout build, fair hair and complexion, small fair moustache. A reward of £2 each is offered lor their arrest.

George Martin, Samuel Weekes, Leonard Fry, and Charles Libery are charged with deserting from the barque “ Clan Fergusson,” at Auckland, between the 11th and 13th instant. Description : Martin is English, twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, slight build, light hair, beard, and moustache, cheeks shaved. Weekes is a Nova Scotian, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, slight build, black hair and moustache. Fry is English, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, slight build, fair hair, and small moustache. Libery is a Swede, twenty-two years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, full face, fair hair, no whiskers, speaks good English. A reward of £3 is offered for their arrest.

Patrick O’Brien and Harold O’Shepherd are charged with deserting from the ship “May Queen,” at Auckland, on the 6tli instant. Description : O’Brien is a native of the colony, nineteen years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, fair hair, whiskers

beginning to grow, dirty appearance. O’Shepherd is English* twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build* long features, brown hair, whiskers commencing to grow. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest.

(See Police Gazette, 1878, page 174.)

The warrants issued for the arrest of David Hopkins and Carl Hansen, charged with deserting from the ships “ Kildonan” and “ Halcione,” at Port Ahuriri, have been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1879, page 12.)

A warrant has been issued by the Wellington Bench for the arrest of James Cashman, charged with deserting from the ship “St. Leonards,” at Wellington.

George Alexander is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with deserting from the ship “ Wairoa,” at Wellington, on the 13th instant. Description : A native of Australia, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, slight build, dark hair, brown eyes, swarthy complexion; wore blue sac-coat, light-brown tweed trousers, and cheese-cutter cap. He was third mate of the “Wairoa.” A reward of £2 is offered for his arrest.