Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 15, 25 July 1883, Page 128

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

F. Hansen, W. Peterson, C. Jacobson, O. Martin, B. Zeihohu, M. Peterson, S. Rerenson, and A. Anderson, seamen, are charged with deserting from the barque “ Deva,” at Bluff Harbour, between the 7th and 9th instant. Description : Hansen is a German, twenty-six years of ago, 5 feet 7 inches high, light-blue eyes, fair hair and complexion. Peterson is a Scandinavian, twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, fair hair and complexion, no hair on face, scar on right cheek. Jacobson is a Dutchman, twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, very fair complexion, fair hair, no hair on face except small light moustache, walks with a very short step. Martin is a Norwegian, seventeen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, very stout build, full fat face, very blue eyes, fair hair and complexion. Zeihohu is a Dutchman, forty-two years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout build, fair hair and complexion, pockpitted, fair beard whiskers and moustache. Peterson is a Dutchman, twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, fair hair and complexion, full face, and full soft blue eyes. Rerenson is a Norwegian, twenty years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, sallow complexion, dark hair, no hair on face, delicate appearance. Anderson is a German, forty years of age, 6 feet high, fair complexion and hair, sandy beard whiskers and moustache, very large hands and feet. None of them can speak English except Anderson. A reward of £2 each is offered for their arrest if effected before the barque leaves the Bluff, which will be about the Ist proximo.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 12.) The warrant issued for the arrest of Alexander Nesbit, Thomas Fulton, and John McGrath, for deserting from the brigantine “ Circe,” at Invercargill, has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, pages 68 and 77.)

Charles Dolberg, J. Severn, F. Petersen, B. 0. Olsen, George Thomson, and Charles Buckland, charged with deserting from the barquo “ Electra,” at Bluff Harbour, are not now wanted, as the vessel has sailed for England.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 103.) Malcolm Campbell, C. Joseph, and John Johnston, charged with deserting from the barque “Edwin Fox,” at Bluff Harbour, are not now wanted, as the barque has sailed for England.