‘Thomas Nixey’ cutter

            Intelligence has been received in town that the schooner ‘Thomas Nixey’, which was feloniously carried off, on the 6^th instant, by Crowe and his confederates, put into the Barrier Island, where these pirates remained for five or six days, plundering and laying waste the property and effects of Captain Nagle, whose house they stripped of its doors and french windows, and appropriated a quantity of Van Diemen’s Land treenails, a number of casks, together with everything loose, or which they could break up.

            From this, it is perfectly clear, that had the smallest energy been displayed by the local authorities the capture of the runaways must have been easily effected. We cannot understand the causes of neglect thus evinced. With a frigate and a Government brig and schooner in port, there were ample available means, and the stolen property could have been recovered, and the thieves secured, by the mere dispatch of one of the ‘Havannah’s cutters. It, therefore, appears very unaccountable that no steps should have been taken, especially as Mr. Coombes lodged an information the very day the vessel was carried off, and expressed an opinion that she would put into the Barrier.  

Other references to ‘Thomas Nixey’ and/or  Crowe-

See New Zealander newspaper, Saturday 11^th Nov 1847 – Thomas Nixey, master Johnston was in with pigs from east coast and out of Auckland with sundries same day on 8 November, 1847.

There is a mention somewhere in the NZer newspaper (can't put my hands on it right now) to Crowe as master of the Providence.

1850- Thomas Nixey arrives in Hawaii on way to California.