Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 24, 28 November 1883, Page 198

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

Arthur Butler, William Buries, William Scott, Charles Burgess, John Barnes, and Frederick Kebble are charged, on warrants issued by the Wellington Bench, with deserting from the steamer “ lonic,” at Wellington, between 6 p.m. on the 13th and 6 a.m. on the 14th instant. Description: Butler is English, an able seaman, twenty-two years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, stout square build, fair complexion and hair, clean-shaved except fair moustache. Buries is English, an able seaman, twenty-two years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, fair hair and complexion, cleanshaved except small fair moustache. Scott is English, an able seaman, about twenty-two years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, fair complexion and hair, cleanshaved except small fair moustache. Burgess is English, an able seaman, about twenty years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, fair complexion and hair, clean-shaved except small fair moustache. Barnes is English, a fireman, about twenty-six years of age, about 6 feet high, slight build, brown hair beard whiskers and moustache. Kebble is English, an able seaman, about twenty-two years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches high, medium build, dark hair and eyes, clean-shaved except dark moustache. A reward of £1 each is offered for their arrest.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 179.) Robert Peter .on, charged with deserting from the barque “ Seatoller,” is not now wanted, as the barque has left Bluff Harbour.