Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 10, 16 May 1883, Page 85

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

William Lewis, William Owen, F. Johnston, Charles Hanson, and Peter Joseph are charged with deserting from the ship “ Bossdhu,” at Port Chalmers, on the 30th ultimo or Ist instant. Description: Lewis is English, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, fair hair and complexion, dark moustache. Owen is English, twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, dark complexion and eyes, dark hair moustache and goatee, cheeks shaved, sore on nose. Johnston is a Norwegian, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, fair complexion, fair hair beard whiskers and moustache. Hanson is a Norwegian, thirty-two years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, dark complexion and hair, black moustache and goatee, peculiar expression about eyes, round-shouldered. Joseph is an Italian, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, dark complexion, long prominent nose, dark hair moustache and goatee, cheeks shaved.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 77.)

John Pitt, charged on warrant with deserting from the barque “Annie Melhuish,” has been arrested by Acting-Ser-geant Florence O’Donovan, Wellington Police, and sentenced to seven days’ labour.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 12.)

The warrant issued by the Lyttelton Bench for the arrest of Joseph Deilaney and Andres Hansen, for deserting from the ship “ Centurion,” has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 30.)

The warrant issued by the Lyttelton Bench for the arrest of Hermann Johameson and Johann Anderson, for deserting from the barque “ Triton,” has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 39.)

The warrants issued by the Lyttelton Bench for the arrest of Bichard Flett, J. Saunders, James Jackson, Richard Templeton, and Henry James Smith, for deserting from the barque “ Bialto,” have been cancelled.