DESERTERS FROM MERCHANT VESSELS.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 25, 7 December 1863, Page 129

DESERTERS FROM MERCHANT VESSELS.

'Deserted during the night of. the 23rd Nov. 1863, ; from the schooner Amycas, at ..Port Chalmers : - r ■ ’ • ■ John Evans, able seaman, 23 years old, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, dark. complexion, black hair, j • Henry Matthias, able seaman, 25 .years old, 5 feet 54 inches high, smart active build, goodlooking. . V David Jones, able seaman, 5 feet 8 inches hi Mi, regular features, good-lot king. . Marks, ordinary seaman, 19 yars old, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout awkward gait. James Matthews, 'ordinary seaman, 18 years old, s.feet 64 inches high, full . round face, S °James Staton, 18 years old, 5 feet 7 inches high, coars’e-looking. ’ ' ' 1 ‘„ . _ William Morgan, 16 years old, 5 feet 7 inches high, thin built. .

Deserted during the night of the 1863, from the British ship lers.an, at Port Chalmers: Morton, 35 years old, 5 feet 5 Edward Morton, 35 years old, 5 5 inches high, light hair, no whiskers under the Chi George Roberts, 30 years old, f 5 ' feet 10 inches high, very dark complexion, small dark whiskers, shaved under the chin. _ Joseph Goodman, 20 years old, 5 teet o inches high, stout build, fair complexion, lig hal JA°lS« 25 year, Old, 5 feet 10 inches high, n small piece gone from JSlfi/.;:lK-h4-,i4compltxi,,,,,d»th foot s.inches high, .'oddish fultface, light hair, small auburn whiskers.

i 97th November, 1863, Deserted on the 27 a t Port Clialfrom the British ship leisian,

mers ~ . „ r 7 -Rnntswain, 30 years old, Benjamin Taylor , boat ? 1

O feet 10 inches high, medium build, dark" complexion, . hair whiskers and beard,;/Very round-shou dered, a Scotchman, dressed in Scotch dionnet! *“*“ jacket; a „d William Balled, ordinary seaman, 1 9 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, -fair complexion, brown hair, no beard or whiskers: a native of Devonshire.i , -u.'i: : \• i? £1 reward for each of these men.