Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIX, Issue 4, 20 February 1895, Page 29

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

Masterton. —Morgan O’Meara is charged on warrant with disobeying an order of the Court, made on the 27th July, 1894, to pay £1 per week towards the support of his wife and three children. Description: A native of Tasmania, a painter, about thirty-five years of age, sft. lOfin. high, medium build, very fair complexion, fair hair beard whiskers and moustache, blpe eyes, medium nose, scar at back of head, long cut on third and fourth left fingers; usually wears a dark-cloth suit, and hard black-felt hat. (See also Police Gazette, 1894, page 193.) He will probably endeavour to leave the colony.

Christchurch. —Robert Hamilton is charged on warrant to apprehend with deserting his child Ronald, aged four years, Description : Irish, a stonemason, fifty-seven years of age, sft. 7in. high, medium build, fair complexion, very dark hair turning grey, sandy beard whiskers and moustache ; usually wears a serge sac coat, light trousers, and cloth hat; carries a stick. Offender engaged with Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, of St. Albans, to keep the child at Bs. per week, but is about £lO in arrears. He left for Wellington on the 25th ultimo.

(See Police Gazette, 1895, page 11.)

Queenstown. —Albin Green, charged with wife-desertion, has written from Honolulu, stating he will not return for three or four years.

(See Police Gazette, 1894, page 53.)

Tasmania. —Walter Robert Sherrin, charged with deserting his illegitimate child, has been arrested by the Melbourne C.I. Police, and remanded to Hobart. (Vide Victoria Police Gazette, 1895, page 33.)

(See Police Gazette, 1895, page 19.)

Pukekohe. —The warrant for the arrest of David Wright charged with disobeying an order for the maintenance of his illegitimate child, has been cancelled.