DESERTION OF SEAMEN.
Nelson, This day. Two foreign seamen belonging to the barque May Queen, which was lying at the anchorage, left their vessel during Sunday night on a raft constructed of two spars, each 10 feet long, with a.small hatchway lashed across them, and took with them a life-buoy. Yesterday the life-buoy was picked up under tho cliffs, and the raft was found on the Boulder Bank-, but nothing was .seen of either of the men, whoso names were Martin Olscn aud Johann Burnian. It is thought that they reached land.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3857, 27 November 1883, Page 3
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92DESERTION OF SEAMEN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3857, 27 November 1883, Page 3
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