THE SYDNEY LEVANTERS, BELL AMD DAVIS.
The Sydney-built schooner Beagle, originally a gunboat, has certainly had a varied career. Late cablegrams reported the sale of the vessel by the Sydney levanters Bell and Davis, to a resident of Callao, and, according to the message, the erstwhile representative of the navy is now employed in more peaceful pursuits in Peruvian waters. The following from Melbourne concerning the Beaple is of interest:—A notice received at the Melbourne Customhouse that the schooner Beagle—master, Joseph Martin ; owner, Mr 8100m —was recently sold at Callao, in Peru, South America, records another noteworthy incident in the story of the vessel. When her fighting days were over she became an ordinary South Sea trader, and ultimately fell into disuse, and for some time lay in the Yarra under offer for sale. Being a pretty little craft, and very fast, she again attracted attention, and late in June last her owner was approached by a couple of gentlemen who made an offer with a view to her purchase. They were, they represented, retired mining speculators, who had done very well in the flood tide of the boom time, and now desired to spend a year or two in pleasure combined with trade amongst the coral reefs and beautiful islands of the South Pacific. After a little bargaining they bought the boat, and gave good evidence of their bona fides by an almost immediate payment m sovereigns. They left for Honolulu, went thence to Tahiti, and then to Valparaiso. The Sydney police and Detective Durvett, of the Victorian Criminal Investigation Department, desire a few other details, and they are theseAs Bloom and Douglas are identical with Bell and Davis, who swindled the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company, Limited, Sydney, of over £30,000 early last year, where are they now ? How much of the money have they not dissipated, and where is the unexpended balance? The sale of the Beagle would indicate that the partners are tired of seafariug life, and have determined to settle down on land once more, and as they made South America before they parted with their boat, it would appear that they intend seeking one of those criminal havens in that continant where the absence of an extradition treaty with Great Britain and her dependencies rendera an English or English-colonial fugitive from justice secure lam the pursuing police.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3112, 25 June 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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394THE SYDNEY LEVANTERS, BELL AMD DAVIS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3112, 25 June 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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