Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 8, 19 April 1882, Page 59

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

Thomas Halstead is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with deserting from the ship “Opawa,” at Wellington, on the 2nd or 3rd instant. Description : English, about twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, blue eyes, fair hair, very small fair goatee, large mouth, bad irregular teeth. A reward of £l los. is offered for his arrest.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 44.)

John Hodden and J. B. Robinson, charged with deserting from the ship “ Glendoline,” at Auckland, have been arrested by Constable Richard Stapleton, Thames Police.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 43.)

Charles Olsen, charged on warrant with deserting from the barque “Carnarvon Castle,” has been arrested by Sergeant James Slattery, Havelock Police, remanded to Lyttelton, and sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment.

David Bain is charged with deserting from the ship “Otago,” at Port Chalmers, during the night of the 10th instant. Description: Scotch, a seaman, about thirty years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, very dark complexion, black hair beard whiskers and moustache, remarkable squint in both eyes. A reward of Pi will be paid for his arrest if effected on or before the 20th instant.